P. Taylor Goetz 🇺🇦

This is likely my last post here as I head over to that blue atmosphere joint. Same handle (@ptgoetz) if you'd like to join me.

I got tired of version strings in project files getting out of sync with git tags, etc. I don’t want to have to switch python/js/etc. virtual environments just to run what is fundamentally a find/replace operation with some git operations. github.com/ptgoetz/go-ver…

Very proud of this team for pulling this off and hitting the very first target release date. Kudos to the whole @sema4ai team! Pats on the back are well deserved. sema4.ai/blog/launching…

Some amazing things are afoot @sema4ai . Super proud of everyone who helped in delivering it. Looking forward to sharing more details soon…

Hindsight is 20/20, but I firmly believe that the PDF format caused more harm than good.

🧵 An opinion/hill I’m willing to die on: Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is the single greatest source of tech debt in the digital era.

IIMHO, it all could have been avoided by splitting the format into two sections: 1. The data to be rendered. 2. Rendering instructions.

Just look at all the vendors of LLM-based solutions trying to offer a way to reliably turn PDFs into structured data!

So getting structured data out of a PDF comes down to Vision, whether it be human or machine. For humans, it’s expensive, for machines the risk is misinterpretation.

@RadioFreeTom I’ve always been an advocate for full “Government Names” for pets. All of mine have/had a three-part name government name. We took it a step further with our kids, they have four.

Pro Tip: If you apply for a job at an AI company, don’t use a GPT to generate your take-home assignment code. Just do your honest best. Plus, WTF were you thinking? Do you think we don’t have the knowledge/processes to detect it?!

@BriannaWu Don’t do it. Go with All-Clad or Le Cruiset.

Does anyone have any opinions on Williams Sonoma cookware? My only large pot is all the way from Frank’s bachelor days, and is on its last legs. And I hear good things about WS, but it seems so overpriced. But I’d rather have one really good piece that lasts forever, especially when I use it every day.

As a developer, I find copilot code completions counterproductive. I have to evaluate every suggestion to see if it’s what I want. Most times it’s not, or is subtly wrong. It slows me down. “Chat with your code” is much more useful. Agents will make that even more powerful.

Listen to @aikarjal 👇

After the boom of ChatGPT and copilots, we’ve found that the real value lies in AI Agents. In @Forbes, I explore some early use cases where AI agents are set to transform industries forbes.com/sites/forbeste…

If there’s one piece you read today about Ukraine, make it this one. As a former photojournalist it really resonated with me. “Let the faces tell the story.”