Introducing "The 4 Ps of Engineering Leadership" A Framework to understand & assess the scope of Impact & Influence of Engineering Leaders in Big Techs: 1. Platform 2. Product 3. Process 4. People 🧵 🧵🧵

I think PMs and product leaders are under-investing in generative AI fluency & building the hard skills necessary to future proof their careers. Sure folks can mumble about semantic search or "agents" or chat as an interface, but could they sit down and really spec a great AI

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 We, as developers, like to learn new stuff and try it ASAP. That stuff is mostly some new frameworks and tools (such as React, Angular, Spring, Web Forms, ...). Yet, those frameworks usually have 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁

reinforcement learning from human feedback

# On the "hallucination problem" I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the "hallucination problem" in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines. We direct their dreams with prompts. The prompts start the dream, and based on the

A thing that is causing huge pain at many tech companies in the US - with little talk about it: An IRS tax code change in Section 174. This change eliminates the ability for businesses to deduct R&D as an expense. Hear of lots of layoffs directly because of this, as a start.

Jeff Bezos explains what it means to disagree and commit “Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing.” There will be disagreements in any endeavor in life where you have teammates. “In society, and inside companies, we have a bunch of

Introducing time vectors! Time vectors are a simple way adapt LMs to new time periods; our results suggest that time is encoded in the weights of finetuned models. Led by my incredible undergrad mentee, Kai Nylund! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.13401 Code: github.com/KaiNylund/lm-w… /1

Over the last ~5 years or so I've worked hard to: - Remind myself that "this problem isn't my fault, but it's my responsibility" when appropriate. - When a problem is my responsibility, aggressively make it impossible for the problem to recur. Great combo; recommended.

As those working in tech, we owe it to educate people around us on the massive fraud potential for AI. You should absolutely be distrustful of: - Video calls - Phone calls - Emails - DMs on social media Assume it could be a deepfake, even if it looks real.

There's a new bill, SB-1047 "Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act". I think it could do a great deal of harm to startups, American innovation, open source, and safety. So I've written a response to the authors: 🧵 answer.ai/posts/2024-04-…

Find it super interesting that Perplexity, #ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are all having simultaneous outages. I'm assuming people flocking between them to create a cascading failure and not some sort of mass global GPU consumption issue or malicious actor?

Does anyone know of a tool that will automatically put slack channels into [channel] groups based on naming conventions?

The US is a great market for tech companies - but this is such a ridiculous shot in the foot to US startups and scaleups. Startups need to figure out how to lobby government collectively as well as other traditional industries and big tech.

You're telling me Anthropic made a Claude for Google Sheets template for multi-input and I'm only just now seeing it?! I'm using this immediately. Link to grab it: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

💪We loved hearing from Michael Cullum, VP of Engineering & Data at Bud, who shared insights into scaling fintech for big partnerships. 🚀 Thanks for sharing your #duediligence expertise with #fintechdevcon!

How did I not know these work in GitHub😍

AI Innovation in Banking panel 🎤 Richard Berkley, PA Consulting 🗣 Michael Cullum, Bud 🗣 Himanshu Jha, Nationwide Building Society 🗣 Thomas Boltze, PagoNxt #FinTech #GenAI #AIApplications #DataStax #RAGPlusPlus