May 27, 2024

Don't worry about LLMs

Happy Monday from Florence, where I gave a keynote at PyCon Italia on Saturday.

The conference was wonderful and the city is wonderful.

I wrote up my talk notes here. I’ve also included the video recording from PyCon Italia.

The post is long, but the TL;DR is that in working with LLMs over the past year, I’ve found that there are several important things to building a good product and getting value out of LLMs. They mostly involve good old traditional machine learning and engineering skills, and that, overarching all of these skills is the ability to focus on a single thing, which is hard in the swirl of AI hype these days, but can definitely be managed through process.