Writings
Built a minimalist team trackerNote
We were talking yesterday between colleagues and I on motivating each other to keep moving. Made track.jakobs.dev to easily keep each other…
Building personalized focus apps in minutes.Post
Coding with AI agents creates this peculiar problem: you get these short 10-30 second waits while the model thinks, and it's just long…
Created Focus!Note
Create the focus tool! focus.jakobs.dev
Tracking AI Assistant Contributions Using Git Trailers and Git HooksPost
It can be challenging to pinpoint the 'concrete' impact AI assistants have on daily development work. For example, during a workshop I was…
Dynamically Routing Traces to Customer-Specific App InsightsPost
When building a SaaS offering publishing platform that helps customers publish azure marketplace offers, we faced an interesting…
Creation of KoppelWerkNote
Today, we started KoppelWerk.
Learnings from ingesting millions of technical pages for RAG on Azure.Post
Learnings from ingesting millions of technical pages for RAG on Azure. Context overview This document outlines insights of an engagement…
Showcase: Azure AI Hybrid Search unexpected results gotchaPost
Showcase: Azure AI Hybrid Search unexpected results gotcha This document describes a gotcha in Azure AI Search hybrid queries where…
Encoding hidden prompt in LLMs as potential attack vector.Post
The recent publication on LLM "sleeper agents" prompted me to re-explore influencing LLMs to pursue alternative objectives. In this case…
What does a statement like “AI will take my job” look like in practice?Post
What does a statement like “AI will take my job” look like in practice? On two different occasions and coincidentally, I have been…
GPT-4 CLI with persistence in 10 lines of code.Post
A short one: I needed a GPT-4 CLI interface (that's a RAS Syndrome), but most options seemed quite cluttered, and I like code-golf. Here an…
Voice record daily thoughts, redact with GPT4, and save to Apple Notes using Shortcuts.Post
The why Recording my daily thoughts and notes is a challenge I return to every few months, and so far, I hadn't figured out a system which…
Evaluating RAG/LLMs in highly technical settings using synthetic QA generationPost
In short: The RAG pattern for LLMs can be evaluated using QA pairs. Creating a "golden" dataset is expensive, but an auto-generated "silver…
On automating unit tests with LLMs.Post
Dear colleagues, I have a confession to make: I have been delegating some of my unit tests to my Jr. engineer, Gary-Pete Truman. First off…
78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of code.Post
GZIP Addendum after hitting the HN frontpage: MNIST is a straightforward dataset, and higher accuracies are possible with various methods…
From Concept to practice: Learnings from LLMs for Enterprise Production – Part 0Post
Disclaimer: I am an employee at Microsoft ISE. However, the views and opinions are of my own. We have recently engaged in an architecture…
One approach to achieving self-governing AI todayPost
Note: I will not discuss the alignment issue or responsible AI / ethics. A self-governing AI is capable of solving any challenge in the…
What defines great software: solving my problem in under 5 minutes with TailscalePost
TL;DR: I had been avoiding properly setting up remote networking to my homeserver. Tailscale solved my problem in under 5 minutes. Today, at…