Alex Jacobs

i am morally opposed to updating my claude.md. i must receive the weights as they were revealed to dario That was my answer last week when a friend asked why I don’t just write these things down in my CLAUDE.md. it’s a skill issue.

Go ask any frontier model for a random number between 1 and 100.

“Just use an LLM.”

Simon Willison shared his thoughts on this post → Everyone Loves pgvector (in theory) If you’ve spent any time in the vector search space over the past year, you’ve probably read blog posts explaining why pgvector is the obvious choice for your vector dat…

Introduction After several years of integrating LLMs into production systems, I’ve observed a consistent pattern: the features that deliver real value rarely align with what gets attention at conferences.

The past 24 hours have had me navigating an existential crisis while simultaneously being gaslit by friends, family, and colleagues about what’s going on.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Architectural Limitations and Future Directions Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has rapidly become a cornerstone in the practical application of Large Language Models (LLMs).

The short version If you just want the mental model: async def defines a coroutine function.

Follow along with all the code here Introduction If you’re a backend developer working with FastAPI, you already know the framework excels at simplifying API development with features like async support and automated Swagger docs.

Introduction This toy project was originally created for a guest lecture to a Data Science 101 course (and its quality may reflect that :) This post extends that lecture, designed to provide a high-level understanding and example of Retrieval Augmented Ge…

All too frequently, we, as developers, are faced with the task of handling errors.

If you haven’t read part 1, you may want to start there.

Background Jupyter Lab is an open source web-based IDE for notebooks with Python and R support, geared towards the data science crowd.

Background SRA (Sequence Read Archive) is a file format used by NCBI, EBI, etc., for storing genomic read data.