Generative Ai

Large Language models have evolved over the last decade but there is still time to learn and understand them. Let me share some resources I found useful. Andrej Karpathy - Intro to Large Language Models An excellent introduction video recorded by Andrej Karpathy, one of the co-founders of the world’s most notorious AI company, OpenAI, which he left in 2024 to found Eureka Labs. [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models ...

The Beginning: A Problem There was a time when, every month, I spend 10-15 minutes reconciling on-call rotas for payroll - this was just for my teams. As an engineering manager responsible for multiple teams, this task was boring but necessary to compensate my engineers who bore the inconvenience of on-call responsibilities. I’d manually review PagerDuty schedules, count weekday versus weekend hours, apply different compensation rates, and compile everything for payroll processing. The more teams one had, the more time it took away from the already tightly packed schedule of an engineering manager, who manages multiple teams. ...