Hamel’s Blog

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A listing of all my blog posts can be found here

Building an Audience Through Technical Writing: Strategies and Mistakes

Writing

What I’ve seen work and what doesn’t.

Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results

LLMs

evals

A step-by-step guide with my learnings from 30+ AI implementations.

An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners

llms

courses

A free survey course on LLMs, taught by practitioners.

Debugging AI With Adversarial Validation

LLMs

Quickly detect a common bug in AI products using an automated technique.

Your AI Product Needs Evals

LLMs

evals

How to construct domain-specific LLM evaluation systems.

Is Fine-Tuning Still Valuable?

A reaction to a recent trend of disillusionment with fine-tuning.

Fuck You, Show Me The Prompt.

llms

ml

Quickly understand inscrutable LLM frameworks by intercepting API calls.

How To Debug Axolotl

LLMs

fine-tuning

axolotl

Best practices for debugging axolotl with an example VSCode config.

Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform

infra

severless

Like Heroku, but you own it.

Why Should ML Engineers Learn Kubernetes?

K8s

Learning K8s can give you an unreasonable advantage as an MLE and unblock your team.