ML /AI engineer - Technical Founder đź“Ť SF
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2022
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I didn’t have STEM background.
I didn’t know what pip install was.
Heck, I didn’t speak a word of English.
I grew up with my grandma in the rural part of Kyrgyzstan.
My first job was selling potatoes and onions on a sidewalk at a local bazar in Bishkek.
Now, I live in San Francisco.
Every day, I meet the smartest and the most Influential people in Tech.
My self-doubt and imposter syndrome have never been this high.
99% of the time, I am the dumbest person in the room.
This slowly was getting under my skin.
It was making me feel small and insignificant.
I wouldn’t ask questions because I didn’t want to sound foolish. This made me stuck in one place.
Until I realized, if I keep being quiet, I won’t ever grow and learn.
So now, the first thing I do when I wake up is leetcode problems.
I go to deeply technical meetups.
I make friends with excellent engineers and scientists.
And I am finally okay with looking like a fool and learning as much as I can. As fearlessly as I can.
This is a reminder, to never let your environment dictate how you should feel about yourself.
Instead use it as a source of inspiration to propel you forward.
#leetcode #adhd #datascience #motivation #inspiration #impostersyndrome
Meri Nova retweeted
I wrote an essay about why the next frontier for AI is the world outside the data center
Nature is a system more complex than anything we've ever created
AI can learn how the system fits together, so we can finally understand how to shape it
How?
naturalgeneralintelligence.a…
Meri Nova retweeted
I just released Beads, a drop-in cognitive upgrade for your coding agent of choice. github.com/steveyegge/beads
In a nutshell, it is a magical 4-dimensional graph-based git-backed fairy-dusted issue-tracker database, designed to let coding agents track all your work and never get lost again. Beads replaces that disgusting pile of half-eaten markdown files in your plans/ directory. You know you have one.
Install the Beads binary, tell your agent in AGENTS.md to stop using Markdown and run `bd quickstart`, and your agents will spontaneously get better at everything, particularly long-horizon planning and keeping track of newly discovered work.
If you are looking for a long-ass but occasionally funny article about how I discovered it while burning a 350k line code base to the ground: steve-yegge.medium.com/intro…
Or you can, you know, just start using it. It's MIT-licensed, written in Go, and super lightweight and portable. Let me know how you like it.
Enjoy!
Meri Nova retweeted
Claude Code: no evals
[well known code agent company]: no evals
[well known code agent company 2]: kinda halfassed evals
[leading vibe coding company]: no evals
[ceo of company selling you evals]: mmmmm yess all my top customers do evals, you should do evals
[vc's in love with ceo of evals company]: mmmmm yes all my top founders do evals, must do evals
(NOTE: i -do- also think that evals are impt, but the eval pilled ai engineers have also noticed that it is not a strict requirement for success and, at least for 0-to-1 stage, may even be anticorrelated, think thru why)
Trend I'm following: evals becoming a must-have skill for product builders and AI companies.
It's the first new hard skill in a long time that PMs/engineers/founders have had to learn to be successful. The last one was maybe SQL, and Excel?
A few examples:
@garrytan: "Evals are emerging as the real moat for AI startups."
@kevinweil: "Writing evals is going to become a core skill for product managers."
@mikeyk: "Writing evals is probably the most important thing right now."
@saranormous: "Evals = your new marketing."
@gdb: "Evals are surprisingly often all you need."
More to come.
I'd rather have a great team than a great product.
The latter will always follow if you have the right people.
- create custom evals
- implement guardrails
- have a human in a loop
- write tests before code
- ditch Streamlit, learn Typescript
And you are golden, baby.
#AIengineer
Meri Nova retweeted
Lovable is the fastest growing startup in Europe ever, $4m ARR in 4 weeks, this is how we did it:
//1
From rejected intern at Meta to $3M/ARR In 12 Months [All Bootstrapped]
Using only:
- Langchain
- Pinecone
- OpenAI
This is @yasser_elsaid_ 's story, a regular guy from Egypt.
The next big wave of AI innovation won't come from better models.
It will come from better UX.
You do not need to be a Deep Learning Expert to build unique AI applications.
You need to experiment, build prototypes, fail fast, and fail forward.
Think about it...
The last AI headlines were made by:
- Claude's artifacts.
- Google's NotebookLM.
- ChatGPT's newest Canvas feature. (check it out if you haven't already)
All of them are variations of better user experience with pre-existing models.