Why I Stopped Using nbdev
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...
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LLM Evals: Everything You Need to Know
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 LLM Year in Review
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....
Chemical hygiene
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...
2025 Year in Review
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
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....
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
The space of minds
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...
Product Evals in Three Simple Steps
Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
A Guide to Solveit Features
An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and iterative development easier and faster.
Build to Last
Chris Lattner on software craftsmanship and AI
Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
Selecting The Right AI Evals Tool
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....
AdalFlow: A PyTorch-Like Framework to Auto-Optimizing Prompt for your LLM agent
AI Agent frameworks are becoming just as important as model training itself! I am excited to introduce you to Li Yin. She is the CEO of SylphAI and the founder of AdalFlow, a PyTorch-like open-source library on GitHub...
Last Week to Register: Build Production-Ready Agentic-RAG Applications From Scratch Course!
This is the last week to register for the Build Production-Ready Agentic-RAG Applications From Scratch course! This is a fully hands-on course where we are going to implement step-by-step from scratch a production-ready...
Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
Learning AI Engineering in 2025
👋 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...
Build Production-Ready Agentic-RAG Applications From Scratch Course: What we are going to build
On Saturday, September 27th, I am launching a new course: Build Production-Ready Agentic-RAG Applications From Scratch! This is a fully hands-on course where we are going to deploy a production-ready Agentic-RAG...
New Course: Build Production-Ready Agentic-RAG Applications From Scratch
On Saturday, September 27th, I am launching a new course: Build Production-Ready Agentic-RAG Applications From Scratch! This is a fully hands-on course where we are going to deploy a production-ready Agentic-RAG...
Mixture-of-Experts: Early Sparse MoE Prototypes in LLMs
Mixture-of-Experts might be one of the most important improvements in the Transformer architecture! It allows for scaling the number of model parameters while keeping the latency associated with the forward and backward...