How Mythbusters helped us onboard our first enterprise way before we were ready.
When we first started working on Buildt late last year YCombinator (YC) made it very clear what we had to do first: build an MVP, no matter how bad, and get it out there. For us as a team, making a bad MVP was no trouble at all – we’ve been doing it for years
Why going viral caused us to rip out everything in a weekend
Tom Blomfield gave us the sage advice of stopping the onboarding of customers who were going to have a bad experience, as getting them to come back would be very tricky.
Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x
For a good search experience you need speed, this is clear when you see Google taking 100s of milliseconds to index millions of webpages, and the story is the same for codebase search.
Three LLM tricks that boosted embeddings search accuracy by 37%
Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time with embeddings, particularly those provided by OpenAI.