Mini Blog
Notes & essays by Ismail Alam
Between You and Users, Choose Your Users
Now that AI lets anyone build, the temptation is to build everything. A great co-builder is just a prompt away. While we might be on the cutting edge, our average users are...
Read postBe a Great Human-in-the-Loop (So Nothing Can Replace You)
To stand out, view tech through three simple lenses: problems, use cases, and solutions. Take Big Data. Hadoop was revolutionary, but coupling storage and compute on-premise...
Read postAgent Harness Creates Magic: Part 1
LLMs, however powerful, are inherently stateless. In a raw setting, you send a message, they respond, and then they immediately forget. If you were to interact with a bare,...
Read postStay Teachable
It is important to be open to all kinds of ideas, perspectives and opinions. A sense that there exists unique logic, reasoning, struggle, stories in every field allows you to...
Read postUnderstanding Both Fundamentals & Abstractions Is Important
In the process of making something useful, there are multiple kinds of abstractions created, use them but know the fundamentals. Abstractions make usage easier but knowing...
Read postPlay in GenAI is now in its applications
There is no doubt that LLMs are advancing but now they have mainly transitioned to incremental refinements. **Why will this happen?** Learning for LLMs, which happens through...
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