14 Jun 2024

Weekly readings - 2024-06-09

History / Edit / PDF / EPUB / BIB / 2 min read (~275 words)
weekly-readings

I discovered https://www.oneusefulthing.org and ended up reading a few articles.

ChatGPT Remembers What I Tell It. It’s Now My Personal Digital Assistant!
The addition of implicit memory is an exciting move toward a more useful AI agent that knows more about you and your preferences. It'll be interesting to see how this evolves.

Experimenting with AI code review
The article is a few months old so it's hard to say if newer models have addressed the concerns of the article. The main value here will be over time to get closer to instant feedback while implementing changes instead of having to push code to get a code review.

Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do
I'm looking forward to OpenAI and other GPT providers to allow GPT creators to review their users feedback when interacting with their bot. The idea here is that a GPT is software, so it needs to evolve and adapt to new needs and requirements as well as address bugs in its behavior.

How to... have better meetings
A few good tips on having better meetings. See Meetings for my own meeting process.

Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs
Prompting is weird. Over time we expect LLMs to get smarter and better at inferring our intent such that becoming good at prompting isn't a skill you shouldn't invest too much into. Until then, it's somewhat similar to knowing how to write good search engine queries.

11 Jun 2024

Written by

History / Edit / PDF / EPUB / BIB / 1 min read (~125 words)

All articles on this blog originate from my head. The content of the articles is mostly mine but some articles are in part or completely written by AI/LLMs. Those articles will be tagged accordingly: no tag for completely original content, partially-ai-generated for articles with one or many AI generated sentences, and fully-ai-generated when all the content is AI generated.

I use a variety of LLM providers (in order of frequency of use):

10 Nov 2023

Quotes

History / Edit / PDF / EPUB / BIB / 1 min read (~72 words)
quotes

  • The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  • People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
  • He who spares the wicked injures the good.

  • No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it's irretrievable.
31 Dec 2022

Learning - 2023

History / Edit / PDF / EPUB / BIB / 1 min read (~6 words)
Learning

(sorted alphabetically)

  • ChatGPT
  • Parenting
  • Prompt engineering
14 Apr 2022

Incident post-mortem

History / Edit / PDF / EPUB / BIB / 1 min read (~43 words)
Processes
  • Identify the cause of the problem
    • 5 whys
  • List potential solutions
  • Investigate potential sources of similar problems
  • Address the additional sources of risk

  • Reduce incident duration
    • Identify the cause of the problem more rapidly
  • Reduce incident cost
  • Reduce the number of people involved