Nicolay Gerold

They classify agents into five different categories.

Simple Reflex Agents: These agents operate under the principle of condition-action rule, meaning they take action based on the current stimulus. They do not consider the history of their interactions with the environment and have no concept of the future; their decision-making is entirely... See more

Thanks to the cognitive architecture design, goal-oriented behavior is at the core of our LLM agents. When presented with a goal, they employ a planning and execution process to achieve it. If the goal can be accomplished using atomic game actions, we generate a plan that outlines how to solve the objective. For longer-term goals, we decompose the... See more

It’s underdigitized. According to the McKinsey Industry Digitalization Index, only the agriculture sector is less digitized than construction. The typical IT spend for construction companies is 1-2% of the revenue, compared with the 3-5% average across industries. Moreover, there are many barriers to digital technology adoption including skill... See more

1. Scalability is crucial - systems need to be designed with the assumption that query volume, document corpus size, indexing complexity etc. could increase by 10x. What works at one scale may completely break at a higher scale.


2. Sharding the index, either by document or by word, is important to distribute the indexing and querying load across machines.

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• Django: It's like a superpower for solo developers. The longer you work in the industry, the more you appreciate the conventions it uses. A monolithic framework can get you really, really far. To me, it's about predictable software that's fast in every way that matters. By the way, I talk more about this topic on my other blog post Choose Boring

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• Right now, GPTs are the easiest way of sharing structured prompts, which are programs, written in plain English (or another language), that can get the AI to do useful things. I discussed creating structured prompts last week, and all the same techniques apply, but the GPT system makes structured prompts more powerful and much easier to create,

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