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I'm really excited about this. Looks really handy and well designed.

Love it

I think that will be very possible soon! We continue to write about it publicly :) Also thanks to my friends and colleagues who write a lot on this subject that I frequently collaborate with:

- Shreya Shankar https://www.sh-reya.com/ - Eugene Yan https://eugeneyan.com/ - Bryan Bischof https://bio.site/Docdonut

Appreciate it, Simon! I have now edited my post to include links to "intro to evals" for those not familiar.

Hamel here. Thanks so much for asking this question! I will work on adding it to the FAQ. Please keep these coming!

This is Hamel. Thanks for sharing! I will incorporate these into the FAQ. I love getting additional questions like this.

Really good article. I was discussing this with Shreya (the author), and an interesting insight was that prompting a LLM to follow these instructions do not work reliably.

I’ve had similar frustrations. Maybe the next thing to try is fine tuning? Curious what others think.

Doug is the OG of search. His book "Relevant Search" is great. Glad to see that he is teaching again.

Great post as usual

I am a python developer who has been envious of modern application dev frameworks & typescript, but never had the time to invest in another stack. This is so exciting. I suspect this might be catalyst that empowers more people to ship stuff

Hi I'm Hamel, author of this blog post. A few months ago, I hosted a course on applied-llms that went viral https://maven.com/parlance-labs/fine-tuning and became a conference organically with 30+ speakers.

I thought it would be tragedy if this material were perpetually locked behind a paywall, so I worked hard to curate all the talks and make it freely available to everyone. I hope it is beneficial to everyone.

> do not seem to be real world business cases

The first one is a real world product that lives in production that is user facing for a paid product.

The second video goes in depth about how a AI assistant was built for a real estate CRM company, also a paid product.

I don’t understand the assertion that it’s not “real world” or not “business”

Here are additional articles about these

https://help.rechat.com/guides/lucy

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/honeycomb-launches-...

Hi, Hamel here. I'm one of the co-authors. I'm an independent consultant and not all clients allow me to talk about their work.

However, I have two that do, which I've discussed in the article. These are two production use cases that I have supported (which again, are explicitly mentioned in the article):

1. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-query-assistant

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_DMMlDuJB0

Other co-authors have worked on significant bodies of work:

Bryan Bischoff lead the creation of Magic in Hex: https://www.latent.space/p/bryan-bischof

Jason Liu created the most popular OSS libraries for structured data called instructor https://github.com/jxnl/instructor, and works with some of the leading companies in the space like Limitless and Raycast (https://jxnl.co/services/#current-and-past-clients)

Eugene Yan works with LLMs extensively at Amazon and uses that to inform his writing: https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ (However he isn't allowed to share specifics about Amazon)

I believe you might find these worth looking at.

I looked at my submissions page and it does not allow me to edit the submission title, sadly. It looks like that option goes away after some time?

I emailed the HN mods/help to see if they could correct this. Hopefully they will be able to help.

Here is a 15 minute explanation (you can watch it on 2x speed in even less time) https://youtu.be/C8kDPmb_IKU

Good question! Yes we did talk to Anaconda (we talked to Peter Wang), and they seemed interested in related but slightly different approaches. Some of their forays into exploratory programming are pyscript https://pyscript.com/, the also acquired python anywhere https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, which is sort of like Wordpress for Python developers!

We ended up partnering with Posit (formerly RStudio) a bit more on this at this was a bit more natural in terms of alignment of product and vision. You should definitely keep an eye on Posit (https://posit.co/) to see what they come up with in this space.

I don't think there was an opportunity to "be acquired" (not sure if that was what you were asking) because we didn't get far enough down the commercialization path to justify that.

Hamel here, one of the core developers on this project. I just want to say that we are really excited about this new release of nbdev and the added functionality it brings to users. The thing I'm most excited about is that you can use nbdev for more things than ever before, such as: Documenting existing codebases (even if they aren't written in nbdev), blog posts, books, presentations, etc.

We also have an amazing notebook runner, as well as many other quality of life improvements. We will be adding more tutorials, walkthroughs and examples in the coming days. If you are interested in using nbdev please get in touch!

Other resources:

- A detailed walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7zS8Ld4_iA&t=3225s

- Blog post: https://www.fast.ai/2022/07/28/nbdev-v2/

- Documentation: https://nbdev.fast.ai/getting_started.html

- Conversation b/w Jeremy Howard and JJ Allaire: https://youtu.be/xxVVSxcjNQs

Really interesting! Do you mind sharing what your company is? (I am the author of the blog post)