I’ve built dozens of applications where Mongo DB was the system of record, and that’s unlikely to change. Old habits die hard after all. However, as AI capabilities and vector search engines become more available, satisfying complicated use cases such as semantic search becomes easier. I’m going to walk you…

Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) is a term coined by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their book “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.” A BHAG is a long-term, ambitious goal that can inspire people to work towards a common vision. It is a tangible, specific goal that…

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. I’ve bet my career on this quote, and it’s more true than ever in the age of A.I. where software is democratized. A prevailing concern is that A.I. will upend the labor market, rendering large…

Custom, generative models are the future. Whether you’re crafting video montages and chatbots or producing audio summaries and image montages they all require the same data pipelines. Engineers need to prepare and process the source of truth, then fine-tune and deploy the generative models for their specific use cases. Note…

A new research paper came out on building reccomendation systems, authored by the ByteDance team: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663.pdf I’m no scientist but I love to understand the latest and greatest in research, which is a perfect task for GPT-4. Prepping the content Since GPT-4 has a token size limit, we first split the paper into…

ChatGPT is the fastest growing product in history, exceeding the likes of TikTok and Instagram. It’s captured everyone’s imaginations, and rightfully so, the technology is incredible. That’s partially the problem however: it builds from imagination. It’s a generative AI and like any generative model, it often presents false information. …

If you’ve read my prediction on which companies will vertically integrate the AI stack, you may have your own guesses. But the real question is, what do you do with that information? In this article you’ll build an end-to-end application that uses the following technologies: Quick Definitions Model Hub: A repository of…

I will live stream myself building this tech stack end-to-end: Register Pre-trained ML models are now easier than ever to implement thanks to companies like HuggingFace and Replicate. It’s come to the point where you can leverage resources that previously were only in the hands of a few tech giants…

I’m known amongst my circles as the van guy. The experience of building, traveling, and living in a camper van for a year was certainly exciting, but there was a deeper, more philosophical motivation. By forcing myself through experiences that required little to no resources, I’m able to mentally prepare…