Measuring personal growth
My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get…
Building A Generative AI Platform
After studying how companies deploy generative AI applications, I noticed many similarities in their platforms. This post outlines the common…
Agents
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and…
Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications
As we’re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it’s normal to make mistakes. This is…
Product Evals in Three Simple Steps
After repeating myself for the $n^text{th}$ time on how to build product evals, I figured I should write it down.…
2025 Year in Review
2025 was an eventful year of progress. I doubled down on my health, had some pleasant career surprises, and my…
How to Work and Compound with AI
How can we work effectively with AI? What’s the workflow, how does it scale, and how do we improve our…
Using LLMs to Secure Source Code
Build a threat model, discover vulnerabilities, verify, triage, and patch.
Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals
How do we evaluate if a model can find and exploit security vulnerabilities? How do we know when agents become…
Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs
Hallucination in large language models usually refers to the model generating unfaithful, fabricated, inconsistent, or nonsensical content. As a term,…