Week Notes 2024#2
4.22-4.28
Still going mostly without coffee, except for a very good spring latte at Ember Goods during the Olympia Art Walk โ.
First interview on Friday, two more this next week ๐ค
In deeplearning.ai and pdf benchmarker open source project
Added a LlamaParse scraper. Output to Markdown was very nice, handled tables well. Learnings
Completed the Terraform module in the DevOps for Developers course on Educative.io.
Had started hatching a 5-year plan a couple weeks ago, and spent some time this week honing in on the first year. It's against my nature to do long-term planning, but I'm pushing myself to do it. As I get more into it, the more I am enjoying it. This is what I am thinking for the next year:
Focus on learning and building AI Engineering projects. I have been using this post on AI Engineering to guide my thinking around it. Essentially, it is about a new class of software engineers that are focused on using AI tools and API's to build applications.
AI tools I'm currently interested in and trying out are AutoGen (agents), Unstructured, Instructor, and LangChain. I've been tinkering with AutoGen lately and it's blowing my mind a bit.
Thinking about how I can become a successful individual consultant. Trying to hone in on what could be my "services". I've been very interested in Dagger for CI/CD pipelines, so I plan to use it for any side-projects to try it out. It appeals to be because not locked into vendor, can use it everywhere (including locally).
Watched
Season 42 of Survivor
Most recent episode of Survivor
Most recent episode of The Amazing Race