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Hamel Husain
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Hamel Husain
@HamelHusain
LLM bullshit knife, to cut through bs RAG -> Provide relevant context Agentic -> Function calls that work CoT -> Prompt model to think/plan FewShot -> Add examples PromptEng -> Someone w/good written comm skills. Prompt Optimizer -> For- If you remember our Applied LLMs course, you'll love this. Today, we are making all these resources available for free to everyone! 📚 We did extra work to add learning tracks, resources, and notes to each lesson to maximize your learning. Link in next tweet
- I was doing Leetcode and found it utterly depressing so decided to go back to learning something useful
- I’ve recently struggled to understand Python concurrency: - How threads & processes work on your OS vs Python - The role of CPUs, hardware & the GIL - Understanding beyond rules of thumb After tons of research, I wrote this w/the answers plus more 👇🧵
- I cannot be the only person who immediately thought of this today
- My thesis is LLMs significantly boost your motivation to work on something. Getting a shitty prototype fast is immensely motivating Code and time are often not the bottleneck, motivation is the bottleneck.there is no market for way shittier versions of apps/games/software no matter how fast you and an LLM can "make" it
- Google Researchers insulting and getting defensive at genuine user feedback (re:Gemini); is an epic developer relations fail (Regardless if the feedback is harsh) Everyone is watching. I don’t want to engage or give feedback either. Doesn’t seem welcoming tbh
- New post re: Devin (the AI SWE). We couldn't find many reviews of people using it for real tasks, so we went MKBHD mode and put Devin through its paces. We documented our findings here. Would love to know if others have had a different experience. answer.ai/posts/2025-01-…
- 👀 Animals have been assigned. Scheduled to print fall 2026! We have iterated on this with over 3k students (and continue to do so). We give our students access to the full draft as part of our evals course (link in bio).
- I've been using this site for years. I don't know how people do regex without something like this pythex.org
- New businesses cannot trust @stripe They literally holding all my money hostage and you cant get through to meaningful support. Just and endless wall of red tape. Ive never had a refund request. So mad about this.
- This talk by @bclavie is the highest value per second talk I have ever watched on RAG Chapter summaries and additional links in next tweet
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