Comment by Nextgrid

Comment by Nextgrid 5 days ago

Tech skills:

* Building LLM-backed products. I’ve recently had a real use-case for AI (as opposed to slapping a useless chatbot on everything just to claim to use AI) and for now I’ve been calling the APIs directly from Django; which while works, makes me write tons of boilerplate for basic tasks like an UI for testing prompts and so on. It seems like this must be a solved problem so I’d need to look around (LangChain?)

Non-tech:

* Sales - from feedback it seems like I’m not actually that bad of a salesman/people person but I would like to formalize that skill, maybe getting an entry-level technical sales/solutions engineer position and grow from there.

Personal:

* Letting go of projects and prioritizing: I’ve always had a ton of tech projects going at once which leads to my free time being spread thin across all of them and ultimately wasted as no meaningful progress is made. While it’s been an amazing learning experience when I started it’s since stopped paying off on that front once I mastered the tech involved. I need to let go for good and just delete the unfinished code once and for all so I’m never tempted to get back to it.

jstummbillig 5 days ago

> I’ve recently had a real use-case for AI

I'd be interested to learn more!

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Nextgrid 5 days ago

Can’t disclose too much yet without nuking my competitive advantage, but basically it’s using LLMs to parse lots of scraped data to identify prospective customers in a certain niche - not in the way “these guys might need it” but more like “these guys have explicitly said they need it”, just that the “say” can be in many different channels and formats, and the LLM’s job is to ingest that firehose of trash and pick out the gems.
All in all a pretty basic and boring use-case that I’m sure I’m not the only one doing, but it’s frankly the first use-case I have where the probabilistic and imperfect nature of LLMs is actually fine.

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