Three Takeaways from DeepSeek’s Big Week: Innvations by China’s AI powerhouse DeepSeek highlight major shifts in the international scene
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Three Takeaways from DeepSeek’s Big Week: Innvations by China’s AI powerhouse DeepSeek highlight major shifts in the international scene

The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in plain sight.

January 29, 20253 min read
Three Takeaways from DeepSeek’s Big Week: Innvations by China’s AI powerhouse DeepSeek highlight major shifts in the international scene
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Three Takeaways from DeepSeek’s Big Week: Innvations by China’s AI powerhouse DeepSeek highlight major shifts in the international scene

The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in plain sight.

January 29, 20253 min read
My AI-Assisted Software Development Stack: The software development stack is evolving fast. Here are some things to consider as you choose components.
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My AI-Assisted Software Development Stack: The software development stack is evolving fast. Here are some things to consider as you choose components.

Using AI-assisted coding to build software prototypes is an important way to quickly explore many ideas and invent new things.

January 8, 20253 min read
My AI-Assisted Software Development Stack: The software development stack is evolving fast. Here are some things to consider as you choose components.
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My AI-Assisted Software Development Stack: The software development stack is evolving fast. Here are some things to consider as you choose components.

Using AI-assisted coding to build software prototypes is an important way to quickly explore many ideas and invent new things.

January 8, 20253 min read
New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!
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New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!

Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications.

January 1, 20253 min read
New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!
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New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!

Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications.

January 1, 20253 min read
Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.
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Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.

I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

December 18, 20243 min read
Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.
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Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.

I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

December 18, 20243 min read
Best Practices for AI Product Management: Generative AI is making it possible to build new kinds of applications in new ways. Here are emerging best practices for AI product managers.
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Best Practices for AI Product Management: Generative AI is making it possible to build new kinds of applications in new ways. Here are emerging best practices for AI product managers.

AI Product Management is evolving rapidly. The growth of generative AI and AI-based developer tools has created numerous opportunities to build AI applications.

December 11, 20243 min read
Best Practices for AI Product Management: Generative AI is making it possible to build new kinds of applications in new ways. Here are emerging best practices for AI product managers.
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Best Practices for AI Product Management: Generative AI is making it possible to build new kinds of applications in new ways. Here are emerging best practices for AI product managers.

AI Product Management is evolving rapidly. The growth of generative AI and AI-based developer tools has created numerous opportunities to build AI applications.

December 11, 20243 min read
The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.
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The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.

There’s a lingering misconception that building with generative AI is expensive.

December 4, 20243 min read
The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.
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The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.

There’s a lingering misconception that building with generative AI is expensive.

December 4, 20243 min read
AI Is Part of Your Online Audience: Some webpages are written not for humans but for large language models to read. Developers can benefit by keeping the LLM audience in mind.
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AI Is Part of Your Online Audience: Some webpages are written not for humans but for large language models to read. Developers can benefit by keeping the LLM audience in mind.

A small number of people are posting text online that’s intended for direct consumption not by humans, but by LLMs (large language models).

November 20, 20243 min read
AI Is Part of Your Online Audience: Some webpages are written not for humans but for large language models to read. Developers can benefit by keeping the LLM audience in mind.
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AI Is Part of Your Online Audience: Some webpages are written not for humans but for large language models to read. Developers can benefit by keeping the LLM audience in mind.

A small number of people are posting text online that’s intended for direct consumption not by humans, but by LLMs (large language models).

November 20, 20243 min read
From Optimizing for People to Optimizing for Machines: Why large language models are increasingly fine-tuned to fit into agentic workflows
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From Optimizing for People to Optimizing for Machines: Why large language models are increasingly fine-tuned to fit into agentic workflows

Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.

November 13, 20243 min read

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