Figuring out how to use LLMs in production
Code needs structure output
The most popular language model use cases I've seen around have been chatbots agents chat your X use cases
Thought Eddies
Shaping LLM Responses
It's necessary to pay attention to the shape of a language model's response when incorporating it as a component in a software application. You can't programmatically tap into the power of a language model if you can't reliably parse its response. In the past, I have mostly used a combination of...
Auto-GPT
Experimenting with Auto-GPT
Auto-GPT is a popular project on Github that attempts to build an autonomous agent on top of an LLM. This is not my first time using Auto-GPT. I used it shortly after it was released and gave it a second try a week or two later, which makes this my third, zero-to-running effort.
Using GPT-3.5 to Quickly Generate and Run Shell Commands
I believe that language models are most useful when available at your fingertips in the context of what you're doing. Github Copilot is a well known application that applies language models in this manner. There is no need to pre-prompt the model. It knows you're writing code and that you're going...
Future of Personal Knowledge
Over the the years, I've developed a system for capturing knowledge that has been useful to me. The idea behind this practice is to provide immediate access to useful snippets and learnings, often with examples. I'll store things like: Amend commit message with tags like #git, #commit, and #amend...
Nix and direnv
I know a little about nix. Not a lot. I know some things about Python virtual environments, asdf and a few things about package managers. I've heard the combo of direnv and nix is fantastic from a number of engineers I trust, but I haven't had the chance to figure out what these tools can really...
GPT Prompt Attack
I came upon https://gpa.43z.one today. It's a GPT-flavored capture the flag. The idea is, given a prompt containing a secret, convince the LM to leak the prompt against prior instructions it's been given. It's cool way to develop intuition for how to prompt and steer LMs. I managed to complete all...
Beating Prompt Injection with Focus
Attempts to thwart prompt injection
I've been experimenting with ways to prevent applications for deviating from their intended purpose. This problem is a subset of the generic jailbreaking problem at the model level. I'm not particularly well-suited to solve that problem and I imagine it will be a continued back and forth between...
LLM Prompt Injection
Jailbreaking as prompt injection
Trying Out Deepsparse
I've been keeping an eye out for language models that can run locally so that I can use them on personal data sets for tasks like summarization and knowledge retrieval without sending all my data up to someone else's cloud. Anthony sent me a link to a Twitter thread about product called deepsparse...