Jake
@jakeliebert.com
ai/ml product at walmart
computer scientist
ex nuclear engineer/us navy submariner
computer scientist
ex nuclear engineer/us navy submariner
“We are seeing that the main thing that determines whether an Agents succeeds or fails is the quality of the context you give it. Most agent failures are not model failures anyemore, they are context failures.”
www.philschmid.de/context-engi...
www.philschmid.de/context-engi...
The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.
www.philschmid.de
July 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“We are seeing that the main thing that determines whether an Agents succeeds or fails is the quality of the context you give it. Most agent failures are not model failures anyemore, they are context failures.”
www.philschmid.de/context-engi...
www.philschmid.de/context-engi...
“People interacting with an application UI has always been the weakest link in getting work done. A manual and necessary evil. But with agents that can act on data to drive workflow, the idea that work can only be done by people via an application UI is blown to shreds.”
June 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“People interacting with an application UI has always been the weakest link in getting work done. A manual and necessary evil. But with agents that can act on data to drive workflow, the idea that work can only be done by people via an application UI is blown to shreds.”
What do people’s feed game look like these days? Start Discover, switch to Following? Something else entirely?
March 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What do people’s feed game look like these days? Start Discover, switch to Following? Something else entirely?
Doubt I would have stumbled across this book if not for @wired.com but I’m ripping through it
www.wired.com/story/plaint...
www.wired.com/story/plaint...
Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.
www.wired.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Doubt I would have stumbled across this book if not for @wired.com but I’m ripping through it
www.wired.com/story/plaint...
www.wired.com/story/plaint...
Enjoyed The Economist on Tyler Cowen - “the man who wants to know everything”
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
economist.com/1843/2025/02...
from The Economist
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
economist.com/1843/2025/02...
from The Economist
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?
economist.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Enjoyed The Economist on Tyler Cowen - “the man who wants to know everything”
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
economist.com/1843/2025/02...
from The Economist
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
economist.com/1843/2025/02...
from The Economist
“The future of AI competition will be about 'power dominance' - do you have access to enough electricity to power the datacenters used for increasingly large-scale training runs”
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
eta-publications.lbl.gov
December 24, 2024 at 1:25 PM
“The future of AI competition will be about 'power dominance' - do you have access to enough electricity to power the datacenters used for increasingly large-scale training runs”
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
“Product reviews are for winning trust”
Recommended watch for product leaders and senior ICs
youtu.be/W1coI_d9MsQ?...
Recommended watch for product leaders and senior ICs
youtu.be/W1coI_d9MsQ?...
How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
YouTube video by Lenny's Podcast
youtu.be
December 1, 2024 at 12:07 PM
“Product reviews are for winning trust”
Recommended watch for product leaders and senior ICs
youtu.be/W1coI_d9MsQ?...
Recommended watch for product leaders and senior ICs
youtu.be/W1coI_d9MsQ?...
Rolling out a generative AI POC, frantically trying to collect user metrics to justify additional investment, checks survey results:
"What's the prompt driving this?"
🙃
"What's the prompt driving this?"
🙃
November 26, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Rolling out a generative AI POC, frantically trying to collect user metrics to justify additional investment, checks survey results:
"What's the prompt driving this?"
🙃
"What's the prompt driving this?"
🙃
Starting "Bubble and the End of Stagnation" this morning.
"A bubble is therefore not simply a collective delusion but an expression of a future that is radically different from now."
"A bubble is therefore not simply a collective delusion but an expression of a future that is radically different from now."
November 25, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Starting "Bubble and the End of Stagnation" this morning.
"A bubble is therefore not simply a collective delusion but an expression of a future that is radically different from now."
"A bubble is therefore not simply a collective delusion but an expression of a future that is radically different from now."
Of all the books I've read on the Twitter story, up to and including the Musk takeover, this one was my favorite.
Well deserved
Well deserved
Character Limit was named to the @financialtimes.com’s best books of 2024 list!
@kateconger.bsky.social and I are honored. Thank you to @janinegibson.bsky.social and the FT staff.
on.ft.com/4hYXF4x
@kateconger.bsky.social and I are honored. Thank you to @janinegibson.bsky.social and the FT staff.
on.ft.com/4hYXF4x
Best books of 2024: Roula Khalaf, Janan Ganesh and other FT journalists pick their favourites
[FREE TO READ] FT editors, columnists and specialists share the titles that have inspired them
on.ft.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Of all the books I've read on the Twitter story, up to and including the Musk takeover, this one was my favorite.
Well deserved
Well deserved
Great thread on agents highlighting a few limitations:
1) Most companies are rushing in without clear goals
2) We lack good ways to measure successful agent implementations
3) It's hard to get lots of good training data to match real world situations (for eval specifically)
1) Most companies are rushing in without clear goals
2) We lack good ways to measure successful agent implementations
3) It's hard to get lots of good training data to match real world situations (for eval specifically)
🌶️(?) take: Agents are somehow hot right because people realized that LLM output can be interpreted as a DSL which directs side effects in the world (e.g. tool calls) rather than just returning text in a chat/autocomplete sense. What are the open challenges? A 🧵... [1/11]
November 19, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Great thread on agents highlighting a few limitations:
1) Most companies are rushing in without clear goals
2) We lack good ways to measure successful agent implementations
3) It's hard to get lots of good training data to match real world situations (for eval specifically)
1) Most companies are rushing in without clear goals
2) We lack good ways to measure successful agent implementations
3) It's hard to get lots of good training data to match real world situations (for eval specifically)
I sometimes wonder to what degree it's necessary/beneficial for non-technologists to have intuition around AI fundamentals, capabilities, and limitations.
November 18, 2024 at 12:34 PM
I sometimes wonder to what degree it's necessary/beneficial for non-technologists to have intuition around AI fundamentals, capabilities, and limitations.
Dario was cool, but I'm enjoying listening to the Amanda Askell portion of the Lex Fridman podcast. Interesting perspective on Claude's personality straight from Anthropic's "prompt whisperer"
https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=93THamoDxiZOfEZx
https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=93THamoDxiZOfEZx
November 18, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Dario was cool, but I'm enjoying listening to the Amanda Askell portion of the Lex Fridman podcast. Interesting perspective on Claude's personality straight from Anthropic's "prompt whisperer"
https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=93THamoDxiZOfEZx
https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?si=93THamoDxiZOfEZx
Reposted by Jake
What a chart.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
November 15, 2024 at 12:37 PM
What a chart.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
Something weird with LLMs and chess...
"Before September 2023: Wow, recent LLMs can sort of play chess! They fall apart after the early game, but they can do something! Amazing!
September-October 2023: Wow! LLMs can now play chess at an advanced amateur level! Amazing!
(Year of silence.)
"Before September 2023: Wow, recent LLMs can sort of play chess! They fall apart after the early game, but they can do something! Amazing!
September-October 2023: Wow! LLMs can now play chess at an advanced amateur level! Amazing!
(Year of silence.)
November 15, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Something weird with LLMs and chess...
"Before September 2023: Wow, recent LLMs can sort of play chess! They fall apart after the early game, but they can do something! Amazing!
September-October 2023: Wow! LLMs can now play chess at an advanced amateur level! Amazing!
(Year of silence.)
"Before September 2023: Wow, recent LLMs can sort of play chess! They fall apart after the early game, but they can do something! Amazing!
September-October 2023: Wow! LLMs can now play chess at an advanced amateur level! Amazing!
(Year of silence.)
I'm not the biggest Lex Fridman fan, but will definitely listen to the 5 hour interview with Dario Amodei
youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?...
youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?...
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
YouTube video by Lex Fridman
youtu.be
November 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM
I'm not the biggest Lex Fridman fan, but will definitely listen to the 5 hour interview with Dario Amodei
youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?...
youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4?...
That feeling of fear/pride when my product team is doing so much user discovery that I can’t even sit in quietly and collect my own insights on it all anymore 😂
November 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM
That feeling of fear/pride when my product team is doing so much user discovery that I can’t even sit in quietly and collect my own insights on it all anymore 😂
Steve Jobs on leadership:
“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is.”
“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is.”
November 10, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Steve Jobs on leadership:
“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is.”
“The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is.”
“OpenAI has created a foundations team to figure out how the company can continue to improve its models in the face of a dwindling supply of new training data.”
techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/o...
techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/o...
OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information. Employees who
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2024 at 12:45 PM
“OpenAI has created a foundations team to figure out how the company can continue to improve its models in the face of a dwindling supply of new training data.”
techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/o...
techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/o...
“I think there’s at least a chance that scaling laws will run out of steam in the next few years. And if that happens, we’re going to need a new generation of stubborn nonconformists to notice that the old approach isn’t working and try something different.”
Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
"You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.
www.understandingai.org
November 9, 2024 at 8:25 PM
“I think there’s at least a chance that scaling laws will run out of steam in the next few years. And if that happens, we’re going to need a new generation of stubborn nonconformists to notice that the old approach isn’t working and try something different.”
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Anyone using temporal knowledge graphs with LLMs for a relatively mature use case?
October 27, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Anyone using temporal knowledge graphs with LLMs for a relatively mature use case?
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #48,100!
September 25, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #48,100!