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Notes on AI agents, MCP and local semantic search
Write-ups from a Berlin-based AI engineer: what new AI launches change for builders, and how I build agents, MCP connectors and local semantic search. Every post lists its sources.
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Claude Motion and Higgsfield Katana, explained: plans and what is still unknown
Claude Motion, Anthropic's animation beta, is on Team and Enterprise plans only. Higgsfield Katana reaches Claude through an MCP connector, and Higgsfield's pages disagree on whether it is free. Facts as of 10 Oct 2026, plus what nobody has documented yet.
- Claude
- MCP
- AI video
- AI news
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EmbeddingGemma 2 local search: building Finer on a local embeddings API
Finer indexes my documents, scans, e-mail, images, audio and video on my own Mac. EmbeddingGemma 2 runs as a local process that behaves like an embedding API. This is how it is built, what lost along the way, and what the measurements say.
- Embeddings
- Semantic search
- Local AI
- MCP
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Build local hybrid search with SQLite FTS5, EmbeddingGemma 2 and Python
A step-by-step guide to hybrid search on your own files: SQLite FTS5 for keywords, EmbeddingGemma 2 for meaning, weighted reciprocal rank fusion, a gated reranker and an MRR and hit@k check. Python you can paste into one file.
- Embeddings
- Semantic search
- Local AI
- RAG
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Will AI replace motion designers? Motion graphics are code now
Will AI replace motion designers? Not on the evidence so far. Claude Motion writes code that animates your own material, and Anthropic says one change leaves the rest alone. In one X search for the launch terms, 44 of the top 100 posts came from Higgsfield's accounts or accounts whose bios mention it.
- Motion graphics
- AI marketing
- AI video
- Claude
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