I had the privilege of mentoring two junior software engineers over the past year. It was my first time doing something like this, so there was a lot to learn! To be honest, I don't …
I had the privilege of mentoring two junior software engineers over the past year. It was my first time doing something like this, so there was a lot to learn! To be honest, I don't …
I attended the AI Accelerator Institute's Generative AI Summit that happened yesterday in London - AIAI London in short. Here are my notes. These are by no means exhaustive. Just a bunch of things I found …
There's a lot of buzz these days around AI, and AGI in particular. It seems like everyone is busy sharing their thoughts on AGI on the internet. I would love to do the same on …
I'm kickstarting a technical book club! It's going to be based around a mailing list with one thread per week discussing the scope covered that week. I have some ideas for what to read, but …
I read the first seven chapters of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" before deciding to stop. It's about half of this hefty book. In the spirit of learning in public through this blog, I'll reflect on what …
A few weeks ago, Anthropic released a new feature to their Claude chatbot — Artifacts. It was announced together with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. You can find more details in the section about the feature. It's …
The nightly version of Google Chrome ships with an on-device LLM. The model it runs is Gemini Nano. Some documentation about this can be found here.
It's not surprising to be honest, that tiny LLMs …
The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, offers high-level, actionable advice for software engineers. Unlike many technical books that focus on specific coding practices or languages, it focuses on cultivating …
A few weeks ago, Anthropic came out with this paper, showing how they found interpretable features in one of their models. This means that they could see which features activate when the LLM generates, and …
As the title suggests, Mozilla is experimenting with using on-device Generative AI to generate alt text. Here are some meandering thoughts.
This raises the question whether it makes sense to invest in AI generated alt-text …