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My startup (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought I’d share some of the … Read more

(Enjoy the blog? Please consider donating – there’s a PayPal button at the top right of the site!) Over the past several years of spending far too much time and money on stationery, I’ve learned a thing or two — … Read more

Note from Jeremy: There are few things more important to our civilization than understanding how to better do R&D. Thankfully, Eric Gilliam has dedicated himself to studying this question. As a result, he’s become the foremost scholar and historian of … Read more

I’ve recently set up my own consultancy company and decided to sponsor my local UKGovCamp conference. That entitled me to a logo on the site, a shout-out during the conference, and place to put any promotional stickers. Everyone loves stickers! … Read more

YC’s Demo Day was this week, and with it comes another deluge of AI companies. A record-breaking 139 startups were in some way related to AI or ML – up from 112 in the last batch. Review: Insights from 112 … Read more

Tanda will be turning 11 pretty soon. A reader suggested it would be fun to reflect on things I’ve learned in running the app on the internet during that time. I sat on this post for ages because deployment, hosting, … Read more

Lately, I’ve been playing around with LLMs to write code. I find that they’re great at generating small self-contained snippets. Unfortunately, anything more than that requires a human to evaluate LLM output and come up with suitable follow-up prompts. Most … Read more

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