DEV Community: Noah Street

Prompt Engineering Is the New Literacy

Noah Street — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:39:56 +0000

Prompt engineering isn’t just about clever phrasing—it’s the foundation of every serious GenAI workflow.

In this post, I break down what makes a good prompt, how to iterate on them systematically, and why PromptLayer is the tool I wish I had when I started.

Read the full breakdown:
https://medium.com/@street.noah/prompt-engineering-is-the-new-literacy-4c7fefb2a9e3

I just wrote an article about Algorithmic Autonomy

Noah Street — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:04:59 +0000

Read it here now:
https://medium.com/@street.noah/the-real-bias-in-ai-is-you-believing-its-neutral-e5d3c10ff9bb

The Coming Collapse of White Collar Illusions

Noah Street — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:58:32 +0000

AI Isn’t Your Copilot—It’s Your Manager.
And it definitely doesn’t care about your Jira tickets.

Just published a piece that’s been brewing for a while:
"AI Is Just Another Middle Manager: The Coming Collapse of White Collar Illusions"

It’s not about replacing everyone.
It’s about replacing the people who manage the people doing the work.

If LLMs can summarize your standups, draft your reports, and track your backlog better than your team lead...
you might want to update your resume—or rewire your role.

Full post here: https://medium.com/@street.noah/ai-is-just-another-middle-manager-the-coming-collapse-of-white-collar-illusions-0752724b3179

Bonus goodies for devs & indie builders:
Prompt packs, workflows, and unfiltered dev musings at noahjstreet.com

Would love your thoughts—especially if you’ve replaced middle management with a few scripts and an LLM.

AI #DevLife #FutureOfWork #PromptEngineering #Automation

I canceled ChatGPT Plus and built my own offline GPT

Noah Street — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:08:07 +0000

I was paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus to help with support workflows—until I hit another rate limit during a printer ticket crisis.

So I built my own GPT-powered assistant on a dusty Windows server.

No tokens. No API keys. No cloud.

What I Built

Self-hosted chatbot using Ollama and Mistral 7B
Flask backend and React frontend
Custom JSON knowledge base that updates from closed helpdesk tickets
Hosted entirely offline on local hardware

Stack Overview

Flask – backend routing and LLM integration
React – UI for support prompts and feedback
Ollama – local LLM runner with REST API
Windows 10 server with 32GB RAM and GTX 1660 Super

Why I Did It

No more rate limits or usage caps
Complete control over data and prompts
Avoid vendor lock-in
And honestly? I just wanted to prove it could be done

I published the full write-up here:

Read the full article on Medium
Drops on Tuesday

If you're curious about the setup, prompt wrappers, or how the JSON knowledge base works, I'm happy to share.

Flask #React #SelfHostedAI #Ollama #Chatbot #OpenSource #GPT