Karachi Wala Developer

Karachi Wala Developer

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Karachi Wala Developer episodes

  • LLMs: Will Lama3 destroy the competition?

    Lama3 is a popular open source model by Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. They have release the next iteration of the famous Lama2 model, this is a popular open source LLM which is heavily used by developers world wide. Is the new iteration strong enough to take on the best closed source models? We explore in this episode.

    8 min
  • LLMs: Finetuning - do you need it?

    As we move to use LLMs more and more for different use cases, we will run into at times issues or limitations with the model. There are many different ways to train the model to do a specific task better, and fine tuning is one of them. What is about, when do we need to use it and how do we do it - all in this episode.

    9 min
  • LLMs: My thoughts on Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI Sora.

    So this week we had 2 back to back announcements which completely shook up the LLM worlds. Gemini Pro 1.5 with its 10 million token context length makes it super powerful to run on large codebases and a lots of documents. The other big news was the launch of OpenAI Sora - their new text to video generation which can now generate super realistic videos for up to a minute. How will these impact our tool, I share some thoughts here.

    6 min
  • LLMs: An Introduction to Prompt Engineering

    If you are using ChatGPT or Bard - you are "prompting" the AI to get some answers. Not all prompts are made equal. The response of the LLM depends heavily on the quality of the prompt and the context given to it. Thus its worth while spending some time understanding prompt engineering and how to do it properly.

    10 min
  • LLMs: This Jen, is the internet.

    Referencing the classic episode from IT Crowd - we take our first dive into the world of LLMs by talking about neural nets and how they form the basis of the LLMs we know today. We touch on the famous paper - All you need is attention, and then talk about what LLMs under the hood are really about.

    7 min

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10 minute weekly ramblings of a software engineer based in Karachi sharing about tech and startups. Recently started a series on Engineering Leaders in Pakistan.