Featured Blogs

Dive into our running log of experiments, reflections, and discoveries. These posts, written by students and staff, document what we’re building, what we’re learning, and where we may be headed next with AI.

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15 Jan 2026

Building Software for the Moment

When change is constant and rebuilding is cheap, maybe more software should be built for …

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09 Jan 2026

A Proposed Framework for Human-Centered AI Design Principles

Principles for building with AI

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19 Dec 2025

From Skeptic to All-In: Building a Real-Time Audio Plugin with AI-Assisted Coding

Building and shipping a real-time audio plugin with AI assistance—what helped, what didn’t, and what …

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02 Dec 2025

The Blue Devil Guide to Surviving (and Acing) Finals with NotebookLM

If you're not using NotebookLM for finals, you're studying on “hard mode.” I'll show you …

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02 Dec 2025

Beginner Guide to Using LLMs for Final Prep: Ashley's Study Tips

If you don't know where to begin, here's all the "how"s, "do"s, and the "don't"s.

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02 Dec 2025

Finals Prep Fall 2025: Kat's Study Tips

How I use ChatGPT Study Mode to prepare for tests. Part of Finals Prep Fall …

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14 Nov 2025

Who is ChatGPT to You? How We Humanize AI

Who is ChatGPT to you? A tool? A collaborator? A partner? Or something else? And …

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11 Nov 2025

Is 'Clanker' a Slur? Duke Students Weigh In

The term, and a handful of other faux “AI slurs”, have spread across TikTok and …

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10 Nov 2025

The Poetry Camera and the Fox: Empathy and Imitation

The Poetry Camera project explores how AI can inspire curiosity and reflection about what it …

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07 Nov 2025

Inside the Designed Empathy

Part 2 of Redefining Companionship in the Age of AI

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05 Nov 2025

When We Started Talking to Machines

Part 1 of Redefining Companionship in the Age of AI

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24 Oct 2025

How I Taught AI to Handle My Boring Stuff (No Coding Degree Needed)

What happens when a maker wires AI into everyday tools? My n8n experiments might surprise …

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29 Oct 2025

Meet YuYak: Your New Language Learning Buddy

YuYak is a language learning app focused on pronunciation developed by the Duke Innovation Co-Lab …

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16 Oct 2025

From Dining Stress to Decision Maker: Duke GPT Builder in Action

A demo on how to make AI work for everyday decisions.

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01 Oct 2025

ChatGPT Edu: What's the difference?

What is the difference between my personal ChatGPT account and ChatGPT Edu?

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23 Sep 2025

Need a Korean Tutor? Hire ChatGPT!

Using ChatGPT for Language Learning: An Example in Korean Speaking

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03 Sep 2025

Build your first bot with myGPT Builder

Walkthrough of using myGPT Builder to make your first bot

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20 Aug 2025

Create a Co-Lab Adviser with OWUI (part 2)

Move beyond simple document uploads with a scalable, standardized method to manage context and retrieve …

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21 Aug 2025

Getting Started with Duke's AI Gateway: A Developer's Guide

Quickstart guide for developers using API keys from the Duke AI Dashboard

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14 Aug 2025

Create a CoLab Adviser with OWUI (part 1)

Build your own AI Adviser, Open WebUI (OWUI) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

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12 Aug 2025

Staying In The Loop

Examining the AI moment before the start of Fall 2025 semester.