OpenAI DevDay: GPTs, Assistants API, and the Platform Play
OpenAI's first developer conference reveals its vision for an AI application platform
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Ideas tested in public.
Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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My First Steps in AI Research
Documenting my journey from infrastructure engineer to hands-on AI researcher and builder
- ai
- career
Tool Use, Function Calling, and the Future of AI Integration
The emergence of structured tool use and function calling in LLMs points toward a protocol-driven future for AI integration
- mcp
- ai
Meta's Llama 2 and the Rise of Open Source LLMs
Llama 2's open release changes the dynamics of AI development and gives enterprises new deployment options
- ai
LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the AI Tooling Explosion
The AI framework ecosystem is exploding with tools for building LLM-powered applications
- ai
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Anthropic and Claude: The Safety-First Approach to AI
Anthropic's Claude model and Constitutional AI represent a fundamentally different philosophy in the AI race
- ai
Pivoting My Career Toward AI
After years in cloud infrastructure, I am making a deliberate shift toward AI and large language models
- ai
- career
AutoGPT and the Dawn of Autonomous AI Agents
AutoGPT introduces the concept of autonomous AI agents that can decompose tasks and execute multi-step plans
- ai
- agents
GPT-4 Is Multimodal and It Changes Everything
GPT-4 launches with multimodal capabilities, passing professional exams and setting a new benchmark for AI
- ai
Google Bard and the LLM Race Heats Up
Google announces Bard in response to ChatGPT, and the large language model race officially begins
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Microsoft's Billion-Dollar Bet on OpenAI and the AI Arms Race
Microsoft's massive investment in OpenAI signals a new era of AI competition among the tech giants
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2022: The Year AI Broke Through
Looking back at a year that saw AI go from research curiosity to mainstream phenomenon, while I published two books and watched the world change
- ai
- personal
re:Invent 2022: AWS Bets on Generative AI
AWS re:Invent this year revealed a clear strategic pivot toward generative AI infrastructure, and the cloud landscape is about to change
- cloud
ChatGPT Launches: The iPhone Moment for AI
OpenAI just released ChatGPT and it is the first AI product that makes non-technical people understand why artificial intelligence matters
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Losing Interest in Phones Too
After losing my passion for cars earlier this year, I am realizing the same thing has happened with smartphones
- nostalgia
- personal
AI Research Is Moving Faster Than Anyone Can Track
The velocity of AI research has reached a point where even dedicated practitioners cannot keep up with the pace of significant breakthroughs
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CKAD Certification: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Passed the CKAD exam and earned another Kubernetes certification, reinforcing my conviction that container orchestration is fundamental infrastructure
- kubernetes
- career
Stable Diffusion: AI Art Goes Open Source
Stability AI just open-sourced a state-of-the-art image generation model, and the implications of putting this technology in everyone's hands are profound
- ai
Losing Interest in Cars
With a full Tesla fleet in the household, the novelty of cars has faded in a way I did not expect
- nostalgia
- personal
James Webb's First Images Put Things in Perspective
NASA just released the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and they are redefining our view of the universe
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From Strangers to Founders: Published
My second book this year tells the immigration story that shaped everything, from arriving in America as a stranger to building a career in tech
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- personal
Mastering Cloud Engineering: Published
My first book is published, distilling years of hands-on cloud architecture experience into a comprehensive guide
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- cloud
- career
Elon Buys Twitter: The Most Chaotic Tech Deal in Memory
Elon Musk just agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, and the way it happened is as remarkable as the deal itself
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DALL-E 2: AI Creates Art
OpenAI just showed us an AI system that generates photorealistic images from text descriptions, and the implications are staggering
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