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Tech Thoughts Migrating from WordPress to Hugo LLMs: great for business but bad business When to commit Generated code to version control Abstractions should be deep not wide Some data on podcasting API services should always have usage Limits Using Python & Poetry inside Docker Timing Real vs Theoretical Engineering Productivity Too much documentation is harmful Engineering stack Engineering Guardrails VCs are anti-personas for a B2C startup Bad and good ways to test code The different layers of a web applications The biggest impact of ChatGPT Social media and burglar bars 5 reasons package....
#tech-thoughts Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Sep 02, 2024 For more than 10 years, this website has been running on WordPress. Over time I come to dislike it for multiple reasons.... #tech-thoughts LLMs: great for business but bad business Jul 05, 2024 The true value proposition of LLMs lies in their ability to convert unstructured data from sources like websites and documents into structured information with reasonably high accuracy. Yet, the real....
I am a software engineer and an angel investor based out of the San Francisco bay area. This page is mostly a collection of curated articles that I have written and tools that I have built. More professional info is on LinkedIn. You can email me at ashishb AT ashishb.net. Blog posts & Tools Infrastructure If you are an infrastructure engineer consider my聽Docker 101聽blog post and then read how you can聽deploy web services聽essentially with zero fixed costs....