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garybakeon Stop Building Your AI Product Around Today's Model

"Which AI model should we build around?"

I'd ask a different question: What will it cost us when we're wrong?

Models change. Providers change. Pricing changes.

Good AI architecture doesn't predict the winner. It makes changing your mind cheap.

garybakeon The LLM App Isn't a Model, It's a System: Designing for Quarterly Model Swaps

As LLM providers ship breaking changes on a near-monthly cadence, the difference between a 10-minute .env swap and a 400-line PR comes down to architecture. This post introduces seam-driven design for Python LLM apps - five narrow interfaces (provider, prompt, tools, config, observability) that can each be replaced independently - illustrated with a working FastAPI + LangChain reference app. Readers get a concrete checklist and two hands-on drills they can run against the open-source code immediately.

garybakeon Show HN: Postgres as a VectorDB GUI

Same here. I'm using langchain which creates a varchar id column. It also has different collections on the same table.

garybakeon Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?

Magnetic USB cables are a godsend for young kids with tablets.

garybakeon Ask HN: Programmers – do you still buy/read technical books?

I've had that on my 'to buy' list for too long. In such a rapidly changing field like computing, books have to be really special to reach the 'classic' accolade.

garybakeon What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos

I'd say its about 1/3 biography, 1/3 history of the early cold war and 1/3 game theory. Neuman definitely deserves a good biography though.

garybakeon Busting the 10x software engineer myth

This here. I think the author is confusing what a 10x developer is.

I took the 10x dev to mean somebody who may work efficiently but also improves all of the devs around them. Improving yourself by 2x is one thing but improving the team around you by 2x is where you get the 10x.

garybakeon Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

"Tape it to the fridge" Please don't do this, at least keep it hidden from general viewing.

garybakeon Players to sue for hundreds of millions over use of their statistics

Like in moneyball. It could have a bearing on players wages, sponsorship etc. I hope too hope they loose though.

garybakeon Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

paperswithcode has a link to the repo

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/slide-in-defense-of-smart-a...

garybakeon Ask HN: Keras on PyPy?

I got stuck on this problem a while ago. I was doing reinforcement learning and the environment needed to run in pypy to make it fast enough. I ended up using Pyro4 to bridge pypy (environment) and CPython (keras).

garybakeon Ask HN: Suggestions to Make Alphago Zero Clone

https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-and-the-game-of-... This is an amazing book that goes over how alpha go works and how to replicate it. The book uses keras.

garybakeon LiteTree: SQLite with Branches

You can use it for "what if" analysis. - Take a fork of the database - Transform data in the fork. i.e. costs+5% - Point your current queries to run on the fork

You can see how with just the effort repointing queries a reporting app could show the real world and the world you are modelling.

garybakeon Model Zoo – Pretrained deep learning models

I always figured 'model zoo' was a general term for for a collection of trained models.

garybakeon Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder

I would recommend micropython on the esp8266 as then you can use the same code that was running on the pi with a few tweeks. https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp82... http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp8266/