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Aug 2025

More AI Lessons

A little while ago I blogged on developing at speed. The obvious omission from all aspects was AI. But AI – like an IDE – is just a tool. Unless you understand what it can and can't provide, unless you use it intelligently, you will not reap the benefits. But unlike an IDE, AI doesn't come with a set of menus that hint at what it can and can't do. AI doesn't come with a marketplace of extensions that provide functionality shared by the community. And it's so new that we're all working it out. So what are my thoughts?

Supercharging Input to Domino REST API Agents

One of the things I learned when building HCL Volt MX LotusScript Toolkit was that calling a web agent with ?OpenAgent URL populates the NotesSession.DocumentContext with various fields containing useful information from the request. So when I was building agent processing functionality into the POC that became Domino REST API, I utilised the same approach to provide opportunities to pass contextual information across to an agent.