Saeed Esmaili

Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.)

Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day

Is this rate limiting by IP or path? 🤔 You also mention '/content/*' somewhere in the post which I think you meant '/search/*'

Bluesky, unlike X, doesn’t punish posts with links. Which means there is no good reason (and frankly no good excuse) for posts with screengrabs of articles that don’t link to them.

It’s bad for readers and bad for the writers whose work you’re using. Posting text? Link to where you got it.

It would be nice to have this on the original blog post as well.

Building a Content Recommendation System for Myself, Part One
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Sounds nice. It doesn't include my blog, even when I filter on July 2023, when I had a post of the first page of the hackernews:
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Thanks for sharing the notes. I was also curious about the hosted version's pricing but couldn't find anything online. I hoped your notes would have some info :(

Will you share the video recording of the session as well?

Klarna was the company that went all-on replacing customer support with an AI bot and went on to brag about the cost savings.

Now they are reversing course.

Easy to see more companies blindly replacing quality customer support with a worse AI implementation will follow...

I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don’t mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!

Congrats!

Thanks Rohit!

Ten Favorite Photos I Captured in 2024 I purchased a Sony a7ii in 2023, while having zero understanding of the basics of cameras and photography. I recall being particularly confused about the exposure triangle , especially how aperture af...

This post is a reflection on my photography work in 2024, featuring my top ten photos and a short story for each. I’d love to hear which of these photos resonates with you and why.

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Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training A few months ago I used streamlit to build a simple UI, so I can collect manually labeled data for a LLM fine-tuning task at work. Streamlit is fine, but the full process of creating a nice UI with re...

TIL: Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training

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TIL: Quickly Filter and Aggregate Python Lists

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Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability I’ve been using sentry for automatically logging the errors and exceptions of my python projects. A few months ago I needed to log some information if a specific condition is true in my side project’s...

TIL: Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability
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I'd like to try if one is still available