Eugene Yan

MARCH 15, 2025

Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.

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Eugene Yan

JANUARY 11, 2025

Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.

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Eugene Yan

DECEMBER 21, 2024

A peaceful year of steady progress on my craft and health

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Eugene Yan

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.

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Eugene Yan

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

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Eugene Yan

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Setting up my new MacBook Pro from scratch

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Eugene Yan

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.

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Eugene Yan

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.

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Eugene Yan

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Being a human judge at the Weights & Biases LLM-as-a-Judge Hackathon

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Eugene Yan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Comparing five implementations built with FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.

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Eugene Yan

AUGUST 17, 2024

Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.

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Eugene Yan

JULY 6, 2024

What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.

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Eugene Yan

JUNE 26, 2024

Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.

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Eugene Yan

MAY 30, 2024

Challenges and lessons from deploying LLM experiences: evals, scalability, guardrails.

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Eugene Yan

MAY 11, 2024

From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.

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Eugene Yan

MAY 25, 2024

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Eugene Yan

APRIL 6, 2024

Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.

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Eugene Yan

MARCH 30, 2024

Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.

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Eugene Yan

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

How it differs from unit testing typical software and some guidelines

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Eugene Yan

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Distillation vs. self-improvement across the three stages of language model training.

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Eugene Yan

JANUARY 6, 2024

Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!

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Eugene Yan

DECEMBER 30, 2023

An expanded charter, lots of writing and speaking, and finally learning to snowboard.

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Eugene Yan

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.

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Eugene Yan

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Or how we can bootstrap on open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples.

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Eugene Yan

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The biggest deployment challenges, backward compatibility, multi-modality, and SF work ethic.

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Eugene Yan

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The biggest deployment challenges, backward compatibility, multi-modality, and SF work ethic.

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Eugene Yan

OCTOBER 8, 2023

I give one talk a year and in 2023 this is that talk.

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Eugene Yan

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations.

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Eugene Yan

AUGUST 12, 2023

Distinguishing problems with external vs.

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Eugene Yan

JULY 29, 2023

Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.

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Eugene Yan

APRIL 15, 2023

Generating Dr. Seuss headlines, fake WSJ quotes, HackerNews troll comments, and more.

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Eugene Yan

JUNE 10, 2023

Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.

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Eugene Yan

MAY 20, 2023

What's the big deal, intuition on query-key-value vectors, multiple heads, multiple layers, and more.

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Eugene Yan

MAY 6, 2023

It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.

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Eugene Yan

MAY 6, 2023

Should chat be the main UX for LLMs? I don't think so and believe we can do better.

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Eugene Yan

APRIL 22, 2023

9 patterns including HITL, hard mining, reframing, cascade, data flywheel, business rules layer, and more.

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Eugene Yan

APRIL 8, 2023

Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them.

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