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🔗 The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can

The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can by Ethan Mollick A thought-provoking article that, on the surface, explores which modality of AI agent deployment is more likely to succeed in a large organisation — agents carefully designed around organisational processes, or general-purpose agents trained to seek successful outcomes (RL, for example). But dig a little deeper, and it raises a more fundamental question: what shape will successful AI-powered products take?

💬 How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

Douglas Adams: everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. This was penned in the distant, dial-up days of 1999, when the Internet was at...

🔗 Book: AI Engineering by Chip Huyen

AI Engineering by Chip Huyen From the book’s Preface: This book provides a framework for adapting foundation models, which include both large language models (LLMs) and large multimodal models (LMMs), to specific applications. There are many different ways to build an application. This book outlines various solutions and also raises questions you can ask to evaluate the best solution for your needs. I picked up this book after reading its preface (through the free sample on Amazon). I’m excited to work through it over the next few weeks.