Ivan Leo
ivanleomk.bsky.social
Ivan Leo
@ivanleomk.bsky.social
Applied AI stuff from time to time, I write at ivanleo.com
A common problem I see is people expecting models to solve all their problems in a single try.

Instead treat it as an iterative process and work slowly towards building a portfolio of good outputs and reviewing them consistently

ivanleo.com/blog/youre-p...
You're probably using LLMs wrongly - Ivan's Blog
Get 10x the results with LLMs in 3 simple steps
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November 27, 2024 at 7:23 AM
My favourite evaluation is an assert statement and it works surprisingly well. Stupid evals helps us turn vibes into objective metrics - one step at a time.
See my favourite stupid evals at ivanleo.com/blog/write-s...
Write Stupid Evals - Ivan's Blog
Keep it simple and worry about the rest later
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November 26, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Reposted by Ivan Leo
Evals are "too damn expensive" until you:

• can't migrate underlying models safely
• can't add new features with confidence
• can't ship without HITL evals, which takes >100x longer
• product development and iteration grinds to a halt
• lose customer trust due to poor user experience
November 23, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Wrote up my thoughts on synthetic data generation

www.ivanleo.com/blog/synthet...
Synthetic Data is no Free Lunch - Ivan's Blog
Hard-earned lessons from generating millions of synthetic data points and why validation matters more than volume
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November 23, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Spent some time writing about my takeaways from running loads of experiments as a new data scientists working with LLMs

www.ivanleo.com/blog/youre-p...
You're probably not doing experiments right - Ivan's Blog
How to get the results that you want from your LLM experiments
www.ivanleo.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM