Growing pains
Have LLM's progressed at the same rate of development as my 7-year old? Here I muse on their advancements over the last 3 years.
Carly Richmond
Advocate Engineer Speaker Blogger
Latest posts
Wargaming in the AI Era
AI continues to dominate our discussions, including in incident response and SRE. The emergence of AI assistants, AI-generated code and self-remediation agents shows that SRE is very much embracing the AI boom. Nevertheless, it’s worth reflecting how it evolves, or even eliminates, some traditional practices in fields such as incident response. I’m fortunate enough to attend lots of developer…
That I Would Be Good
Managing Technologists Through Life Events
Is it (F)ake?!
I am not a machine learning expert! But I am a big fan of baking shows. Join me as I show how to extract images from web pages with JavaScript using Playwright, Unsplash and Elasticsearch, and learn how to use TensorFlow.js, a JavaScript machine learning library, to figure out if models or humans are better at finding the cake!
Electric Youth
Why LLMs are Like My 4-Year-Old
Rip It Up
On a fun and frustrating week ripping out large sections of code and changing my approach, I introduce how to use serverless functions to simplfy prototype development with Netlify, Elasticsearch JavaScript Client and React.
Charge Me Up
Respecting the Social Battery in DevRel
Take a Picture
Software Engineers rarely get an opportunity to rebuild applications from the days we learned to code. Yet here I am rebuilding the search game I built in university. One recent problem I had was that I needed updated screenshots from the websites used in the original game. Here I show how Playwright can be used to capture web screenshots programmatically.
(Not So) Basic Instinct
Nature versus nurture is an ongoing debate as to whether human behaviours are driven by inbuilt natural factors already there, or are formed through environmental factors such as parenting and life experience. Over my 11 year career in tech, I've noticed with each move I have built instincts through trying, failing, adapting and learning from others. Here I reflect on the main types of instincts…
Jump In
Change is scary! Three months ago, ahead of my first day as a Developer Advocate, I had the same pre-first day butterflies in my stomach that I do with every change. Would I be good at this? Was it the right decision? Despite my strong preparation and research ahead of taking this role, there were a few surprises I found along the way. Here I share five surprises I've encountered in my first 3…