Week Notes 2024#2

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Created: 2024-04-30 Updated: 2024-11-03

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• I'm still going mostly without coffee, except for a delicious spring latte at Ember Goods during the Olympia Art Walk ☕.
• I have my first interview on Friday and two more this next week 🤞

In deeplearning.ai and pdf benchmarker open source project

• Added a LlamaParse scraper. Output to Markdown was very nice, handled tables well.

Learnings

• Completed the Terraform module in the DevOps for Developers course on Educative.io.

• I started hatching a 5-year plan a couple of weeks ago and spent some time this week honing in on the first year. It's against my nature to do long-term planning, but I'm pushing myself to do it. As I get more into it, the more I am enjoying it. This is what I am thinking for the next year:

  • I focused on learning and building AI Engineering projects. I have been using this post on AI Engineering to guide my thinking. Essentially, it is about a new class of software engineers that are focused on using AI tools and APIs to build applications.
  • Some AI tools I'm currently interested in and trying out are AutoGen (agents), Unstructured, Instructor, and LangChain. I've been tinkering with AutoGen lately, and it's blowing my mind a bit. I'm thinking about how I can become a successful individual consultant. I'm trying to hone in on what could be my "services." I've been very interested in Dagger for CI/CD pipelines, so I plan to use it for any side projects to try it out. It appeals to me because I'm not locked into a vendor and can use it everywhere (including locally).

Watched

• Season 42 of Survivor
• The most recent episode of Survivor
• The most recent episode of The Amazing Race