Amplify Partners was running a survey among 800+ AI engineers to bring transparency to the AI Engineering space. The report is concise, yet it provides a wealth of insights into the technologies and methods employed by companies for the implementation of AI products.
Highlights
👉 Top AI use cases are code intelligence, data extraction and workflow a... See more
Central pattern generators: control reflexive actions that are well trained. Intention: duration, path, outcome to deliberately rewire the nervous system. Top-down control causes the release of neuropenephrine, which causes you to feel agitated. Self-control and learning therefore feels agitating.
The way to avoid it is to aim for what Wes calls the minimum viable backstory . Ask yourself: What’s the minimum backstory necessary to set the context, so we can spend time on the important stuff?
As she says:
You’ll have to fight your urge to over-explain. You may think your audience needs to know all the details upfront. They don’t. You’d be surp
Backstory = waffle. It’s the sidebars, tangents, preamble, and background info that’s hardly related to your main point.
Context = relevant info to what you want to talk about. It’s part if your actual story.
Text embeddings are a critical piece of many pipelines, from search, to RAG, to vector databases and more. Most embedding models are BERT/Transformer-based and typically have short context lengths (e.g., 512). That’s only about two pages of text, but documents can be very long – books, legal cases, TV screenplays, code repositories, etc can be tens... See more
The newer branch has three primary functions. The first centers on the heart and its ties to respiration. As activity in the vagus—also known as vagal tone—increases, a person’s heart rate and respiration slow. The second function centers on the endocrine system. As vagal tone goes up, the release of stress hormones in the body goes down. Higher va... See more
Shipping early is not enough. We also need to keep shipping tiny iterations daily instead of waiting months to ship something big.
Having a strong sense of urgency , and making hard decisions fast is how we enable that process. Our sprints only last 1 week and are quite short when compared to the rest of the industry - this is by desig... See more