49 episodes

10 minute weekly ramblings of a software engineer based in Karachi sharing about tech and startups. Recently started a series on Engineering Leaders in Pakistan.

Karachi Wala Developer Mashhood Rastgar

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10 minute weekly ramblings of a software engineer based in Karachi sharing about tech and startups. Recently started a series on Engineering Leaders in Pakistan.

    LLMs: Are AI Software Engineers ready to take over?

    LLMs: Are AI Software Engineers ready to take over?

    In this episode I share my thoughts on the latest additional to AI development called Deven, and where the industry is moving towards. Will software engineering be taken over by AI in the next few years?

    • 8 min
    LLMs: My thoughts on Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI Sora.

    LLMs: My thoughts on Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI Sora.

    So this week we had 2 back to back announcements which completely shook up the LLM worlds. Gemini Pro 1.5 with its 10 million token context length makes it super powerful to run on large codebases and a lots of documents. The other big news was the launch of OpenAI Sora - their new text to video generation which can now generate super realistic videos for up to a minute. How will these impact our tool, I share some thoughts here.

    • 5 min
    LLMs: Welcome Google's Gemini Ultra!

    LLMs: Welcome Google's Gemini Ultra!

    The all new heavy weight model has just dropped this week. Should you be rushing to try it out? Why is the ultra model better? This and more in his quick episode talking about Gemini Ultra.

    • 5 min
    LLMs: How to train LLMs on your data using RAG.

    LLMs: How to train LLMs on your data using RAG.

    In this episode - we discover the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) process which allows us to train our LLMs using our data. In this short episode we cover what is this about and how can we use it.

    • 6 min
    LLMs: An Introduction to Prompt Engineering

    LLMs: An Introduction to Prompt Engineering

    If you are using ChatGPT or Bard - you are "prompting" the AI to get some answers. Not all prompts are made equal. The response of the LLM depends heavily on the quality of the prompt and the context given to it. Thus its worth while spending some time understanding prompt engineering and how to do it properly.

    • 9 min
    LLMs: This Jen, is the internet.

    LLMs: This Jen, is the internet.

    Referencing the classic episode from IT Crowd - we take our first dive into the world of LLMs by talking about neural nets and how they form the basis of the LLMs we know today. We touch on the famous paper - All you need is attention, and then talk about what LLMs under the hood are really about.

    • 6 min

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danu505 ,

Good initiative

Mashood it’s a good initiative you have taken, I wanna share you one topic that is the most important concern right now what would you think our tech world would be after this pandemic. What would be the major changes. Pros and conns will be waiting to hear back from you.
Thanks

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