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Quick notes and longer articles from the Cornell AI Innovation Hub community. Explore how students, faculty, and partners are building responsible, human-centered AI across courses and projects.
Teaching an AI to Remember: What I Learned Building a Wiki LLM
Hound of the Baskervilles highlights the choice between Wiki and RAG.
What Happened When We Put AI to Work?
Thirty participants from 23 units across eight colleges gathered in early August to explore what an AI-enabled future of software development might look like…
How Cornell Recovered $100,000 in Unidentified Payments With AI
This is the story of how a two-semester collaboration between the Cornell AI Innovation Hub, graduate students, and the Treasury team transformed a time‑consuming,…
Improving Your Code with Skills: Security and Accessibility Audits in Practice
As developers we have to do so much more than just write code. We have to make sure our code is secure, accessible, well-documented,…
Faster Writing, Same Voice: Everyday AI in Action
Storytelling is one of my gifts. When my team was encouraged to “try AI,” my first reaction wasn’t excitement. It was skepticism.
What Have I Gotten Myself Into? Lessons From the eCornell Agentic AI Architecture Certificate
I recently completed the eCornell Agentic AI Architecture certificate program. If I am being completely honest, my first thought when I logged into the…
From Tickets to Insights: Designing Multi‑Agent AI for TeamDynamix
At CALS‑OIT, we use TeamDynamix (TDX) to manage IT support requests across the college. It is an essential tool that ensures tickets are tracked,…
From Back-Burner to Production: My First Week with Claude Code
How an AI coding assistant helped me finally ship the Drupal features our team needed Six months ago, I was excited. I’d just discovered…
How I Built a 3,600 Line Feature in 4 Hours Without Writing a Single Line of Code
Hi, I’m Fermin Romero III. I’m the Application Development Manager for Student Services Information Technologies at Cornell University, and I volunteer as a tech…
Building the Future: Tech Lead Opportunities in the AI Innovation Hub
My initial motivation in joining the AI Innovation Lab as a tech lead was straightforward: to ensure the AI work I was doing at…
Training the Next Generation of Hotel Staff: An AI-Powered Approach to Hospitality Education
During the Fall 2025 semester, I took Cornell’s Info 5940 course about AI Chatbots, RAG, AI Agent. The course was taught by Prof. Ayham…
Exploring a Domain-Specific AI Agent for CALS Investment Manager
At CALS OIT, the Administrative Computing team plays a vital role in supporting the college’s operations through building and maintaining custom applications tailored to…