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ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
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The more experience I get, the harder it feels to blog with confidence

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

if you are using primarily local models, which ones are you using and for what lately?

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

I love opening up the next Jira ticket and finding no requirements and then getting real mad at the person who created it (me)

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Yeah decreasing time complexity, flattening code, adding cache, etc etc, but it’s wild how much one well-written log statement can improve the codebase.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve never regretted writing documentation but I’ve regretted not writing it.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

submitted 14 days ago • 154 comments

The slightly concerning/brittle era of LLMs in IR 😅 #ECIR2025

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is so incredibly cool. Embeddings are lingua franca for so many retrieval/LLM/recommendations use-cases and I really enjoyed working with embeddings in Redis via the search module, can’t wait to try this.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Love this endler.dev/2025/best-pr...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Docker is doing local LLMs 👀 www.youtube.com/live/mk_2MIW...

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

To experiment with multi-agent systems you either need a clear business case and big budget, or you need to be a jabroni with a high credit limit. I'm just the jabroni for the job, so I taught Claude to play chess, and learned a ton along the way: jfkirk.github.io/posts/claude...

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

Sir Isaac Newton didn't have to spend this much time managing package dependencies

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

can’t even let the old neurons rot for 20 min on insta

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

quick new post on what i've gotten out of HN vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/2...

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

If you need a break from SEO, LLMs, and the general emptiness of the modern internet, go here and browse for a bit marginalia-search.com/explore

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

if you’ve never been part of a sev1 response team on a Friday night you’re not allowed to post about vibe coding on LinkedIn

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

👋🏻 In the last 10 years, I’ve had a growing interest in making Python development more effective. I’ve learned that a lot of teams don’t make the best use of the tooling available to use. This has culminated with writing an ebook on developer tooling I’m excited to share with you. pydevtools.com

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

I wish I had as much energy as people in the severance fan theory subreddit

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments