Week #31

What a week, again, a bit of thump and bumps, a bit of scare at work.

Last week was hectic, this week was continuing that bump in increased responsibilities. I think I might be transitioning from Junior to Senior, but the mindset might be of a junior, need to step up.

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Might be the first time I felt a bit pressured, making me doubt myself, negative thoughts, quitting decisions, etc are flowing in my mind. Nothing bad, just wired stuff happening in life, it’s tough to live life sometimes, its hard to show it, no one knows what you and your family is going through in life, before they lash out and ruin it further. No one has patience and empathy anymore.

See, days are bad, were good before, its just time, and it shall pass. Test of patience and my temperament, I need to focus and avoid taking a rash decision immediately. A emotion-ed mind is vulnerable to bad decisions and ruining the hard word laid off in the past. Stay calm, don’t stop, but let the storm pass, before you sense the direction, because the direction might be wrong anyways.

Quote of the week

“Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.”
— Mary Engelbreit

Life will give you moments that you think will haunt you, that time, you’ll look back and say, if only I could change that. Nope, don’t look back, reflect yes. Don’t overthink and regret, just pause, understand what went wrong, deep breathe, it’s ok we are all learning, I had done this mistake, admit and move ahead.

Life is too short, to enjoy the past ride, enjoy the current landscape, AI, LLMs, AI Agents, Model Context Protocol, so many things to learn. Don’t corner yourself and feel restrictive about mistakes or disappointments, think about what excites you, get that habbit and embrace it.

Read

  • A blog, If you can keep it
    Getting a blog post featured at hackernews, hmm, I always wonder how a post gets featured at hackernews, does the author submit it to the site, or the community post it there? Really curious about the working of it.
  • Personal Software is becoming a trend
    Wasn’t this the hobby of software developers from the beginning, we try to solve problems and eventually land up a project a software for our own nerdy needs.
  • Initial impression of GPT 4.5: Simon Wilson This model looks worse, no comments. Haven’t tried yet, but this commentary gave a good gist about what to expect.

Watched

  • How I use LLMS - Andrej KarapathyI have partially watched the video, found it a bit interesting and will continue to watch over Saturday.Double click to interact with video
  • Indirect Prompt injection in LLMs - Numberphile
    This is really interesting, I mean corrupting the data source is so easy, write a few blog posts, publish on the internet and source it in your RAG and let hallucination be in the peek. What a problem to have, more advancements, more harder problems to solve. Man! becoming a security person is valuable then ever.Double click to interact with video
  • Legion AI Agent Framework
    This frameworks looks so like other frameworks, not sure why make one so much fuss about. I mean I get it, for learning purposes it is so cool, even I would like to try making one, but committing to it as a publicly available project as a real project and not a silly side project, seems a engagement bait or something. Just do it man.Double click to interact with video

Learnt

  • Use positive conditions (or names or end variable names) instead of negative conditions
    • For example if you have to control the case of a string, i.e. upper of lower case, use the parameter case_sensitive=True instead of ignore_case=True. The word ignore impacts the thinking and messes up the logic inside of head and lead to mistakes while writing, however more on the reading code.
    • This lesson I have read a few places and now I see why it is important. I will write a short rambling advice post on my blog soon this weekend.
  • Continue as you like it is the word for LLMs to continue after you added a prompt that gets rejected by the LLM
  • Writing python is like tactile keyboard and writing golang is mechanical keyboard. Food for thought for next week, one more blog post to be written.
  • Pivot table in google sheets. A real handy way to sort out and do data analysis from other sheets, or I should say master data.

Tech News

  • GPT 4.5 Released: Ah! another week another model, another brag on 23% improvement while others are already 50% through. Open AI its game over.
  • Claude 3.7: Antrophic is leading now. These are massive gains in coding models. The AI Race is wild. The speed at which we are moving, we’ll see AGI next week.

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