Excited to announce that
@withkili
is now open to everyone.
LLMs will enable us to automate many repetitive tasks. We are passionate about bringing this tech to everyone through the right interface.
Conversational interfaces are great to think through problems, but don't cut
A curated Web3 reading list for folks who are new to Web3.
Will be a live page that I keep updated.
There's a lot of ground to cover in Web3. If you're feeling overwhelmed, we've all been there. Take your time, ask questions and you'll get there.
Yesterday, Jack Dorsey announced Web5: “an extra decentralised web platform”.
I went through the 18-page deck.
Here’s a summary of the protocol, and how it claims to be different to Web3.
[THREAD]
@kunalb11
Yes, it massively increases productivity. Two ways:
1) copilot: helps with autocomplete, saves time
2) ChatGPT esp GPT4: incredible for solving a problem if you know where and how to probe. Like a pair programmer who is with you 24/7.
Meet Kili: a platform to craft your own, personalised AI assistant with zero code.
Last week, I shipped a version of this based on content from my newsletter (~14k words). It's generated a bunch of traffic + new signups.
There's a bunch of use cases this can solve:
I asked ChatGPT: "How do I write SQL code to calculate the monthly retention for user cohorts?"
My mind is blown🤯
One of the big parts of learning SQL is to think in tables. This answer just nails that.
Announcing our open-source analytics tool for Postgres &
@supabase
.
• Connect any Postgres database
• Query using SQL or the UI
• Share queries across your team
• Export to Google Sheets
• Schedule your queries to update hourly, daily or weekly
Excited to publish my piece on autonomous agents.
For the essay, I used
@yoheinakajima
's BabyAGI and tried to complete a goal.
Wanted a framework that helps non-technical folks understand what's happening under the hood. It's useful to think of agents as a team with the
@roshanpateI
And if you happen to be that associate, you are going to learn a TONNE.
The irony is that you learn the truly value of that many years later.
@skirano
We used it a bunch for our product launch and it does very well. I'd say Claude still wins at sticking to format but GPT-4O reasoning / coding / speed is really great:
Excited to announce that
@withkili
is now open to everyone.
LLMs will enable us to automate many repetitive tasks. We are passionate about bringing this tech to everyone through the right interface.
Conversational interfaces are great to think through problems, but don't cut
🎉 Big news! Kili is now open to all! 🚀
Empower your business to respond in seconds, not days.
Kili uses the power of AI, your team’s context and a reinforcement loop to make this happen.
Here’s how:
@satyanadella
Closest we've come to see someone disrupting Google's strong hold on search.
This is step 0 in my opinion.
Most critical next steps are to move quickly and solve the accuracy problem.
I had a 4 hour flight today with no WiFi.
I wanted to setup Llama 3 locally and did so with
@ollama
and
@OpenWebUI
.
Used the 8B model and I’m truly in shock.
Obviously the model does not match up to GPT4, Claude Opus or Gemini.
The fact that you can run this on a MacBook
@shaunmmaguire
The 5% you refer two will have two traits in my opinion:
• Focus on the problem, not the solution. In other words, users may not even know its web3.
• Be less polarised about "web2" vs "web3", and apply whatever is most appropriate for the use case.
@paraschopra
Why you got to lay this on us on a Monday morning 😂
Jokes aside, making money is important as an entrepreneur but shouldn't be the only reason.
There's some passion from wanting to build, from valuing the freedom etc. Money is an outcome for most entrepeneurs I know
@rjs
Went the other way: I was in product and taught myself how to code.
It’s been one of the best investments I’ve ever made.
Endless experimentation with the only cost being time
Spent some time reading about Ethereum's Merge. Here are the key takeaways for anyone who's interested.
If you want to dig deeper, checkout the thread below.
The extent to which "prompt engineering" has taken off blows my mind.
People hiring for it, content creators researching & writing about it, applications being built off of it.
You don't see this kind of shift and at this kind of speed very often
I'm intrigued by how much more productive AI could make us. But we also need to know when it's right.
For
@bentossell
's AI hackathon, I decided to apply this to a common problem: programming questions.
Drop your details in the form below & I'll let you know when it's ready :)
The cost of train AI models has fallen dramatically.
Imagenet is an annotated database of images for training AI models.
Cost to train has fallen from >$1,100 to $4.59 in 4 years.
Last week, 2 of crypto's largest players, 3AC and Celsius were nearly liquidated.
A quick thread on margin calls, staking and what we can learn from this experience.
Vector embeddings have clearly been around for a while.
Almost like a building block of LLMs.
If this is case, why is search still bad for so many cloud services (e.g. GDrive)?
Is it:
1. Incumbents like Google being lazy
2. Vector embeddings failing at scale
@frantzfries
Think the real test comes when ChatGPT starts charging.
This is also why I think the big opportunity here is to go super vertical. If AI capabilities are deeply embedded inside a workflow, harder for chatGPT to compete.
Spent some time reading about Ethereum's Merge. Here are the key takeaways for anyone who's interested.
If you want to dig deeper, checkout the thread below.
I’m looking to build a founding team around Kili.
Looking for a CTO and full stack developers. AI / ML experience preferred but not required.
If you or anyone you know is interested, please shoot me a DM :)
RTs appreciated
The Github Copilot X announcement is absolutely wild.
- Voice-to-code [yes you heard that right]
- ChatGPT in your editor.
- Get answers from **any** publicly available docs.
- Summaries for PRs
A very large opportunity in AI right now is to build the “Router”.
It’s only job is to take an input and route it to the right LLM, tool or API.
Your first reaction is that large LLMs will capture. But what if you didn’t need something as big? And what if training something
@bentossell
1. GPT4 wows everyone. Lots of false positives. Reaches a steady state.
2. Regulation is front & centre for non-text generative AI (audio, video, pictures)
3. AI use cases in science explodes but isn’t talked about as much.
4. Best builders develop their own models.
Apple may be using it's iPhone strategy all over again.
Let competitors educate the market about AI.
Ship it's own LLM that is privacy-focussed and coupled with it's hardware (which btw doesn't run on Nvidia).
Capture the market with flawless design & UX
@kavinbm
I like to frame it as follows:
• Web3 is the movement to decentralise
• Blockchains are the tech that enables decentralisation
• Crypto is the value of transfer for the movement
Finally got down to reading this paper that claims that GPT-4 has sparks of AGI.
Some observations:
AGI or no AGI. The paper does a good job of showing the incremental gains of GPT4 over ChatGPT. I'd recommend reading it.
GPT4's coding, creative and
Spent some time looking into the $625m steal on Axie Infinity's Ronin side chain. Here are the key takeaways I've gathered.
Hope the attackers are caught & the ecosystem is safe.
If you're building an LLM based products, I highly recommend this essay from
@eugeneyan
It summarises succinctly the most important components of a great LLM product.
@levelsio
You don't need LangChain to do this. Just use a vector db and do the following:
1. Every time a message is make an API call to db and embed the message
2. When you need to look up history do a vector db call
3. Use a small model to summarise all the relevant conversations found
@tunguz
There’s a lot of information overload right now. Lots of content, products, experiments. All good stuff but hard to keep even when you’re inside the space. Can’t imagine what it’s like on the outside.
Excited to announce that Anthony Rego is joining Kili as cofounder & CTO.
Anthony and I worked together at Deliveroo. We share a common vision for the kind of company we want to build. He's been playing around with AI and LLMs for the last few months, and it became clear that
Here's the first iteration of getting the data you need using plain text and AI.
This is most powerful when the user doesn't need to "choose" the table (most ppl don't know where data is).
Pretty incredible that the query is accurate and works on such little context.
@kunalb11
I feel there should be a 3rd option in this poll:
"Tap and pay with your phone"
IMO combines the best of the two (don't need to carry the card, less effort required)
@emollick
Part of the problem here is that embeddings are helpful for semantic similarity but not reasoning.
What we need is really a knowledge graph that an LLM can traverse through the pick the most important bits
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger used mental models as an edge to become the greatest investors in history.
There are hundreds of mental models.
I found 14 that will help you become a better Crypto Investor:
(including common investing traps)
@GergelyOrosz
Then you buy Github.
It's already paid but also ends up being the best AI augmented coding tool (Copilot).
Suddenly you have an incredible bundle to offer.
Then MSFT is like, yeah we do this the best :)
According to
@ElectricCapital
, there were only 20K developers in Web3 as of December 2021.
Represents the amount of building that's happening in the space.
Last week,
@dYdX
announced their move to launch their own blockchain.
In the last 24H, they've done $500 million in trading volume.
I spent a few hours digging into their motivations for doing so.
Here's what I learnt.
[THREAD]
@Sentdex
Without doubt. Even if you are building a product entirely based on LLMs, there are hard engineering problems to solve.
The LLM bit ends up being a small component relatively.
For this week's essay, I'm writing about autonomous agents.
I find it incredibly helpful to get into the weeds when writing about this stuff.
So of course, I'm using
@yoheinakajima
's BabyAGI to walk people through how autonomous agents work.
Excited to announce that we’re launching
@withkili
in a closed beta.
Whenever you find yourself doing a task multiple times, we want to help you run it on autopilot. Kili can help you with a wide range of tasks like generating and enriching leads, processing invoices or purchase
Created an AI Chatbot using my newsletter content.
Ask a Q and it will respond with a short answer + links.
Personalised Chatbots are super interesting for content creators:
• Help audience find content
• Identify topics audience wants to know about
Hey
@supabase
, absolutely love your product.
A few asks for you to consider:
• Ability to replicate a DB (useful to create a PROD version)
• Set redirect URI for magic links from ENV variables
• ETH sign in without using Auth0
Thx :)
Early thoughts on OpenAI announcement:
- GPT4O (consumers): win more free consumer users (GPT3.5 sucks).
- GPT4O (developers): Offer a model that is better than GPT3.5 but cheaper than GPT4-turbo (Claude Sonnet competitor)
- Audio to text transcription: insane. The speed and
Launching a new side project: Beakr
I've found trial & error to be the best way to find what works best with AI.
This is will only accelerate given the pace of AI development.
Beakr will help you experiment with AI by tracking latency, cost, accuracy, prompts & mix / match.
Announcing our open-source analytics tool for Postgres &
@supabase
.
• Connect any Postgres database
• Query using SQL or the UI
• Share queries across your team
• Export to Google Sheets
• Schedule your queries to update hourly, daily or weekly
We're in an interesting stage with AI.
Those building know there is a long way to go before things are truly autonomous (FWIW this is an opportunity, not a dig).
Those interacting at the edge (ChatGPT) overestimate it's capabilities. Some reassess after enough use.
The rest
Creators need to do 4 things:
• Create content
• Monetise content
• Grow audience
• Distribute content
Here's my mental model for what web3 can unlock for them 🧵
Prompt management is definitely a problem. You change something small and it can have dramatic consequences on output.
I feel like the good elements of a prompt management system are:
- versioning & rollback
- ability to experiment and finalise prompts
- track success of
What people think an entrepreneur's life is: making $, flying business class, closing deals
What an entrepreneur's life really is: hunting for customers, thinking twice before buying that $50 Gmail plug in, watching their bank balance go down, down, down
To summarise:
• Decentralisation and privacy is the objective
• DiDs = public keys
• DWN = smart contracts (but run locally)
• VCs = ZK proofs
• DWAs = dApps
Key difference: only identity is stored on-chain, and everything else is stored on user-run nodes.
Just sent out this week's web3 newsletter.
It focusses on where we are in the web3 adoption curve. And how we need to adapt as we build for the next billion users.
Here's a little snippet.
@Flynnjamm
Respectfully disagree. At a minimum it's both.
Even if everyone knew about the benefits of crypto (education problem), I think the current UX is too much of a hurdle for mainstream users.
Wrote about it here:
Just sent out this week's web3 newsletter.
It focusses on where we are in the web3 adoption curve. And how we need to adapt as we build for the next billion users.
Here's a little snippet.
Pretty crazy that MSFT:
• Owns Github -> save code
• Azure -> deploy code
• Office -> workflows for business
OpenAI: Sit on top of all of the above and enrich with AI. Copilot is only the start.
@iamjasonlevin
Great thread. The token being tied to a wallet and not a user, so could someone "sell" their entire wallet?
Probably can, but this is plain fraud. It's no worse than what happens in Web2 (e.g. impersonate a certificate).
We’re hiring our first 2 engineers at Kili:
• Full stack: TS, NextJS, Python
• Experience with LLMs a plus, but not required
• If you prefer frontend: you love great UX & design
• If you prefer backend: you love soft. arch & infra
Shoot me a DM if this is you. RT for karma.
My wife, Sahana, has just launched UNRACK - India's newest strength equipment brand.
Her team has poured their blood, sweat and tears into engineering a barbell that competes with the best in the world.
I could not be more proud. Retweets and shares much appreciated!
See the
Just published this week's essay. I've been thinking a lot about industries that will adopt AI faster than others.
Will be industries that: a) don't need 100% accuracy, b) more knowledge based, c) not heavily regulated, and d) product / service is prohibitively expensive.
If you’ve got a product that has accumulated data over the years, and that data is private, you are sitting on an absolute goldmine.
I know people have said this for ages.
With LLMs and the power of knowledge retrieval tools, you can get so much value out of that.
@ljin18
Depends on what I'm building.
Low value / high volume:
Close call between
@0xPolygon
and
@zksync
. Both of them are EVM compatible (ultimately the best security & decentralisation) but also cheaper in terms of of tx fees.
High value (e.g. registering property): Ethereum
This has the opportunity to become as big as the App Store.
Plug-ins are being rolled out to enable 3 things
- Access to real time info (weather)
- Access to internal knowledge (access Confluence)
- Ability to take actions (book a trip)
We’ve added initial support for ChatGPT plugins — a protocol for developers to build tools for ChatGPT, with safety as a core design principle. Deploying iteratively (starting with a small number of users & developers) to learn from contact with reality:
Like Web3, Web5 aims to give users ownership of identity and data.
There are 4 key concepts:
• Decentralised identifiers (DiDs)
• Verifiable credentials (VCs)
• Decentralised Web Nodes (DWNs)
• Decentralised Web Apps (DWAs)
Let’s look at each one and compare it to Web3.
@Fwiz
@Meta
@0xPolygon
Wow this is a big. Real opportunity to onboard the next billion users into crypto. Wrote about this below — can do wonders for the ecosystem if we get the UX right.
@paulg
One of the highest ROI things u can do.
I’m self-taught and learnt in my last job (nights /weekends).
Fell in love with building things & it’s opened up access to experiment endlessly with time being the only cost.
Producing software is becoming cheaper and faster.
How do you make your business defensible?
You need a moat.
Here are the 7 most popular ones in B2B SaaS:
After 5 years
@Deliveroo
, today is my last day.
It's been an incredible ride. Thank you to my colleagues - I've learnt so much from you.
I'm taking a few months off to explore (esp. web3) and write extensively.
A few thoughts on what I've found most valuable in my career 👇
I'm starting an ongoing thread on opportunities for dev tools.
These are problems I've felt personally.
No idea if they are big enough, but they are areas where I've found solutions to be falling short,
If you are building in the space, I hope it helps you: