SwirlAI YouTube Channel is LiveI have officially launched a YouTube channel. The first four videos are already up as a free pre-course for the End-to-End AI Engineering Bootcamp.One thing I see consistently: people jump...
👋 I am Aurimas. I write the SwirlAI Newsletter with the goal of presenting complicated Data related concepts in a simple and easy-to-digest way. My mission is to help You UpSkill and keep You updated on the...
Today, I’m publishing evals-skills, a set of skills for AI product evals1. They guard against common mistakes I’ve seen helping 50+ companies and teaching 4,000+ students in our course. Why Skills for Evals Coding...
If you have struggled a bit to keep up with open-weight model releases this month, this article should catch you up on the main themes.In this article, I will walk you through the ten main releases in chronological...
What analog and AI education both get wrong
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
Experiments in reading with LLMs
Programmers love to proclaim they’ve found the best tool. Paul Graham called Lisp his “secret weapon.” DHH described Ruby as “a magical glove that just fit my brain perfectly.” Pieter Levels ships million-dollar...
This document curates the most common questions Shreya and I received while teaching 700+ engineers & PMs AI Evals. Warning: These are sharp opinions about what works in most cases. They are not universal truths....
2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs. The following is a list of personally notable and mildly surprising "paradigm changes" - things that altered the landscape and stood out to me conceptually....
Following up on digital hygiene , I wanted to write up my (evolving, opinionated) guide to chemical hygiene. I keep ranting about this topic to all of my friends recently (you can tell I'm really fun at parties), so I...
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
TLDR: https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/ Yesterday I stumbled on this HN thread Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now , where Gemini 3 was hallucinating the frontpage of 10 years from now....
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point (or a little cloud), arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct...
Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and iterative development easier and faster.
Chris Lattner on software craftsmanship and AI
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
Over the past year, I’ve focused heavily on AI Evals, both in my consulting work and teaching. A question I get constantly is, “What’s the best tool for evals?”. I’ve always resisted answering directly for two reasons....