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Just Five Mins!

Just Five Mins!

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Take a break. Learn something new. Coffee-powered podcasts on tech topics in just five mins (ish!)

www.justfivemins.comDavid Sheardown
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  • Episode 142 - Agents Agents MCP and A2A
    Oct 7 2025

    Well, more agent stuff then! but what are you all doing with these AI agents?

    Open AI just released agent builder. If you believe their documentation, codex (their coding AI offering) wrote 80% of the agent builder itself… if that is indeed true, it is rather amazing.

    However, building out agent solutions other than hobby projects or small PoC’s, is probably more involved. That is where A2A protocol comes in from Google. Along with MCP (model context protocol), it provides a complimentary protocol to handle the authorisation/authentication and so on between agents.

    Anyway, take a listen for more!

    Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

    Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

    Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

    https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).



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    8 mins
  • Episode 141 - JetBrains free DataGrip
    Oct 3 2025

    Who doesn’t like FREE ?

    Well, JetBrains (the folks who created WebStorm, PyCharm and Rider etc.) have now released one of my favourite database management tools free; DataGrip.

    Free for non-commercial use, but what a great tool to get across. So many different databases you can connect to not to mention a more lovely experience connecting to SAP HANA :)

    Read the blog post here and download

    Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

    Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

    Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

    https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).



    Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
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    9 mins
  • Episode 140 - LLMs Vectors Search and Quantization Explained
    Aug 23 2025

    Okay, a little experiment. Okay, I have been researching how LLMs work with vectors and how AI search works for a while now. But rather than me warble on for a while (and more than 5 mins!), I have tried an AI approach to explain the research ;)

    In fairness, I did listen back to this, and personally I was quite impressed. The explanation about quantization methods was particularly useful.

    If vectors, AI search and quantization mean nothing to you - take a listen :)

    Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.

    Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here!

    Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone eventually?):

    https://www.youtube.com/@justfifteenmins but don’t worry, no ugly face to worry about (yet!).



    Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe
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    13 mins
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