Alison Presmanes Hill

I broke Google Gemini yesterday and got a glimpse into its internal monologue. Strong Bart Simpson energy. Claude counted ~4,000–5,000 repetitions of "I will output the response." We laughed. Good times. 🤣 #AIFails #AdventuresinAI

Also shipping: 🔲 Bounding box UDFs — crop, draw, scale, transform 📚 Migration guides for LangChain, LlamaIndex users Changelog: docs.pixeltable.com/changelog/chan… Compare: github.com/pixeltable/pix… #MultimodalAI #Python #OpenSource #GenerativeAI

🎥 Primetime Workshop — 3-part YouTube series from our January workshop with @hugobowne and Vanishing Gradients Acts 1 & 2 live, Act 3 coming soon Watch: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Code: github.com/pixeltable/pxt…

If you are into multimodal AI (or just multimodal curious), March was a good month 🍀 You can now generate images (@bfl_ml FLUX), edit them (@OpenAI inpainting/outpainting), resize videos, concat clips, and embed it all (@GeminiApp multimodal) — in the same @pixeltablehq pipeline. 🧵

In the 109th session of #MultimodalWeekly, we are excited to welcome @apreshill and Marcel Kornacker from the @pixeltablehq team.  They will walk you through the process of developing a production-ready cross-modal video search system combining @twelve_labs Marengo 3.0 model with Pixeltable's declarative data infrastructure for multimodal AI. ♻️ Register for the webinar here: mailchi.mp/twelvelabs/mul… ⬅️

"I think we'll see for many types of software a shift away from Python" -- @wesmckinn (creator of pandas) Why? When agents write the code, human ergonomics stop being the bottleneck. (He also thinks we'll use more Python — because we're building 100x more software.) I caught up with Wes about his thoughtful & spicy take. Full conversation in comments.

"I do think we'll see for many types of software, a shift away from Python towards other programming languages." "We're going to be using everything more, a lot more, including Python." — @wesmckinn (creator of pandas) Full podcast with Wes, Marcel Kornacker, & @apreshill out now: hugobowne.substack.com/p/python-is-de…

"Multimodal is still seen as a niche. But multimodal data is everywhere." Marcel Kornacker (co-creator of Apache Parquet, founder of @pixeltablehq) on why most companies are sitting on untapped video, audio, and image data, and why the tooling is finally catching up. Check out the podcast with Marcel, @apreshill, & @wesmckinn to hear how you can work with multimodal data today, so you're not leaving all that valuable signal on the table 👇 hugobowne.substack.com/p/python-is-de…

Spring 2026 @CMUDB Seminar Series: PostgreSQL vs. The World db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/sprin… Starts Mon Feb 2nd @ 4:30pm EST. We will alternate between a speaker from either a @Postgres DBMS or a non-Postgres DBMS. Open to the public over Zoom. All videos available on YouTube afterwards.

Want to learn how to Build Scalable Multimodal AI Systems? On Friday I did a workshop with the experts: Marcel Kornacker (@pixeltablehq, co-creator of Apache Parquet, Impala) & @apreshill (Pixeltable, former product lead for R Markdown, Quarto, and conda). @wesmckinn (@posit_pbc) joined us for a fireside chat about the future of multimodal AI & the implications of agentic coding for Python. Some topics we covered 👇 Full workshop here: youtube.com/live/UwdpNxHZD…

"Much of the industry will be writing less and less [Python] given the agentic-loop productivity benefits of Go and other modern compiled languages." -- @wesmckinn McKinney (creator of pandas) Wes’ thoughtful (and spicy!) take is well-taken. If agents are doing the writing, human-first ergonomics stop being the bottleneck. I'm doing a fireside chat with Wes, @apreshill, & Marcel Kornacker tomorrow. It's all about multimodal AI but I'd have to fire myself if I didn't ask Wes about this. We'd love to see you there. See comments for links.

How Pixeltable fits in: pixeltable.com/blog/context-g…

To our 165+ registered workshop participants - we are so sorry to postpone our "Building multimodal AI workflows with Pixeltable" workshop with @hugobowne and @wesmckinn that was scheduled for this week. We have set a new date at the end of January, which gives us PLENTY of time to hear more from you all before the workshop and help you make the most of your #multimodal data in the new year. Please use our @pixeltablehq GitHub discussion thread here to chime in, or just let us know you are excited to join us next year! github.com/orgs/pixeltabl… Also thank you to all the lovely people who sent me texts and DMs to get better soon- luckily I'm well but thank you for the well wishes! Stay healthy this holiday 🌟

I am looking for a #Python tutorial on wrangling nested data structures: exploring complex dicts/lists, extracting elements, iterating elegantly. The spiritual equivalent of @JennyBryan's purrr tutorial for #rstats users. Not 'hello world' level, but the 'I got messy JSON from an API, now what?' level. Recommendations? jennybc.github.io/purrr-tutorial… (also from TAing with her on this content, this gif always hit 🤣🥤🫗)