Zachary Witte
I build AI tools, MCP servers, and mobile apps with a focus on grounding AI agents in real, domain-specific knowledge. Currently working on Azure-hosted AI systems and open-source MCP integrations.
Check out my Projects to see what I've been building, or reach me at zacharywitte@codebluepanda.com.
Intro For the past few months I have been building a mobile app for people with dementia. The plan was always to ship it under the name Reminisce, which is what we had called the project since the Google hackathon back in January. What I did not plan for was finding out, about two months before I was ready to launch, that “Reminisce” was way too generic to safely trademark. Multiple companies were already operating in adjacent spaces, and unless I wanted to pay a lawyer to argue my app was different, I needed a new name. That single discovery is what this post is really about, because what looked like a quick branding problem ended up reshaping how I think about starting a project. ...
Intro Over the past couple of weeks I have been spending time in the Claude Design preview, and the thing I keep coming back to is this: design is now accessible to anyone willing to spend a weekend playing around in it. I have never been great a ui/ux, but Claude Design has lower the barrier to entry for me and I have started to learn. I would love to see what a proper designed can do with this tool and I have seen some people make cool things over on X. Below are a couple of uses that I have done over the last few weeks. ...
Intro Throughout the month of January I worked on an ai agent that helps dementia patients with their reminiscence therapy. During this process I learned a lot about developement in the new era of AI. In this post I want to share some of my key takeaways from the experience and some of the things I learned along the way. 1. Coding with AI In late November Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 and like many others, I believe this was a major turning point in software development or any knowledge based work. Throughout this project I utilized Claude Code and Google’s Antigravity IDE to help me plan features and build them out. These tools are game changers for knowledge work because they can quickly retrieve information from documentation like the context7 mcp server, your codebase, or the internet. While have a better model does produce better results, the real trick is all about giving the model the best context possible. Using the context7 mcp server to give the model access to the documentation for the various apis I was using meant that I didn’t have to spend time looking through the documentation for code examples or syntax and instead spend time architecting the application to meet my needs. So while coding with AI is clearly here to stay, these models can also be beneficial when creating a PRD or feature specs. The ability to quickly retrieve information about apis or libraries was very beneficial for me during the planning fase when I needed to compare two different options for a certain use. ...
Goals for this post. Over the past few months, I’ve been diving deep into the world of Artificial Intelligence. With a background in cloud services like AWS and Microsoft Azure, it’s been a natural fit to use Azure as my main AI hub. One of my favorite recent projects involves building an AI agent for some friends’ disc golf website. The goal is to help players find the right discs based on experience level, throwing style, and the typical courses they play. ...
Hello Everyone, I am starting a small blog to help me keep track of my work and explain some of the concepts or projects that I am currently learning and working on. Ideally as I start to work on more projects, this will become a great source of information for anyone that is wanting to start a career in technology. Future Goals Learn about AI Implement fun and impactful AI solutions Build cool things My list of goals for the future may seem simple to most people but right now this is what I want to do. My favorite part about coding is that I can build something that does something for myself or for other people. I would consider myself to be a creative builder more than anything else. I don’t care if it is AI or robotics or even wood working. I just love to create things for myself and the people in my life to enjoy. ...