Myles Brundage

Tinkering fuels innovation and curiosity. It allows us to truly understand the tools and systems we work with at a granular level. Recently, I've been tinkering with Rust, a language gaining popularity for building reliable, safe, and sustainable systems at scale. The best way to learn is by doing. So, I turned our simple summarization proof of concept, Distill, into a CLI leveraging Rust's performance and memory safety advantages. As builders, it's our responsibility to continuously look for optimizations in everything we do. To ask questions and challenge the status quo. To learn and be curious. I encourage you to give Distill CLI a try, tinker with it, and share your feedback. And as always – now, go build! #AWS #tinkering https://lnkd.in/e7HUQwEt

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"Since 2018, we have increasingly leveraged Rust for critical workloads across various [AWS] services like S3, EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, Fargate, and Nitro, especially in scenarios where hardware costs are expected to dominate over time." We've seen a lot of success with Rust at AWS, including our work on Firecracker, on Lambda's container dataplane, and on many other systems we've built. I love the fact that we can get memory safety without compromising performance or efficiency. I also enjoy seeing how much less time my teams spend tuning runtimes or debugging memory issues. I also really appreciate this sentiment from Werner's post: "... this is not a call to rewrite everything in Rust. ... It’s about using the right tool for the right job. This means questioning the status quo, and continuously looking for ways to incrementally optimize your systems – to tinker with things and measure what happens." Make decisions about programming languages the same way you make all critical engineering decisions: with data!

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Excellent study from Damian Rollison and the SOCi, Inc. team which seems to confirm my longtime hypothesis around citations (https://lnkd.in/gxZQwdx3): the only citations that are valuable are the ones that rank in Google for the keywords you want to be known for. https://lnkd.in/g49DMSeN

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Here's the problem with AI overviews. Regular AI is just predicting the next word so you can see how it goes to the riddle and gets this wrong. RAG AI is supposed to ground this by summarizing search results, but the search results are so broad and generic right now that those too misunderstand the query and go right to the popular riddle - and you get a crap answer. This is over exaggerated by my example, but it holds true for all complex non-trivial queries.

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How We Helped Kiehl's Since 1851 Boost Revenue by $1.6M Through CRO. Kiehl's faced a common ecommerce challenge: increasing conversions while minimizing acquisition costs. Our "Conversion Blueprint" process uncovered 100s of optimizations. ✅ Reduced abandonment ✅ Increased purchases ✅ $1.6M in additional revenue 👉 Check out the full case study below.

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For Charter's AI Tip of the Week, I break down a simple yet effective prompting formula from our Gemini Prompt Guide to help you maximize the potential of your genAI tools. Check out the full article and the prompting guide to learn more → https://lnkd.in/gfTsvUT3 https://lnkd.in/gPiqBKFC #AIPrompts #GoogleWorkspace 

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🚨 Fullstory Announcement - Data Direct Release 🚨 Our new product release Data Direct syncs clean, indexed, and structured behavioral data to your destination of choice helping to fuel your predictive models, feed your LLM with essential context, and drive your GenAI initiatives. Read more about Data Direct below 🔥🔥

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My cofounder Saumil goes on the Stack Overflow Podcast to deep dive on AI Agents! He goes into detail how we leverage AI agents to power automated workflows to accomplish the most complex tasks. Including agents firing off tasks to other agents to tackle the details. Need an agent to verify your work? No problem. Give it a listen and let us know what you think!

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It's uncommon to see innovation in a product that has been chugging along at the same level for decades. But Mark Adams, Keeri Tramm, Holden Page, and Bo Frize are building something special with our RealTrends Verified business. For those that don't know about RealTrends Verified, it's the one real estate rankings program that uses double-verified data (from the agent and their brokerage). Steve Murray and Tracey Velt had been operating the rankings for decades before we acquired the business. Ever since we acquired the business, we've noticed that our ranking pages have pretty impressive SEO juice. Try searching for "best real estate agents" or "best real estate agents in Texas", and you'll see a RealTrends page pretty high your results. This year, we're going to start leveraging this SEO juice with an expansion of RealTrends Verified into city pages. Now people will be able to search for "best real estate agents in Dallas", and find top agents in their city. We'll drill down even further into neighborhoods and zip codes in the coming years. If you're a brokerage or team leader, or a top agent in your city, please check out our new city pages! https://lnkd.in/eTGVHsaN

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Want to learn more about the role of the business user in low-code. Watch this fun episode of Low down on Low-code!

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Tutorial series on WizWrite starting with understanding the dashboard - https://lnkd.in/gePHHEJF. You'll be hard to find a more comprehensive voice-to-content product with a focus on personalization and automation. This makes WizWrite a true productivity powerhouse.

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Wow, huge news from AiFi Inc. this week! Curious if we'll see more deals of this size over the next few years. In short: while AiFi announced in March 2023 that they were selected as Intuit Dome's autonomous checkout vendor, what they're really doing is deploying 40+ stores including a few that use RFID for merchandise. This goes to show what a great fit the technology is for stadiums, but it's also impressive since it demonstrates deployment speed and the ability to scale. I've seen some companies in this space take about a year from their initial press release to the opening of just *one store*. That's too slow. It sounds like in this case it'll be about a year and a half from their press release to the opening of 40+ stores. And it also means that Intuit Dome is the first stadium to use autonomous checkout for virtually every concession stand. More from Paul Kapustka and Stadium Tech Report 👇 https://lnkd.in/gW2WfYNN

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We’re experiencing a massive platform shift to LLMs. Lightspeed's Michael Mignano and I discussed what this shift means for Grammarly, what the industry needs to do to ensure #genAI adoption and value creation, and where I predict true efficiency gains through AI will come from. Hint: it’s not about creating more content. Thanks for having me on, Michael! https://lnkd.in/gpruc99i

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Ever wonder what's in an Oddit Report? WONDER NO MORE. Here's a quick walkthrough of our Oddit Pro with @brandtify. https://lnkd.in/g2sbNxZq

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Check out what Writer CEO May Habib has to say about the power of graph-based RAG in AI applications. 🌐✨ May highlights how our graph-based RAG not only leads in accuracy but also in managing complex enterprise data effectively. A game-changer for digital assistants! Check out her full post for more on our innovative approach. #AI #DigitalTransformation #Innovation

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Loved this practical session at yesterday's New York Product Conference with Bloomberg's Zane Van Dusen: "Managing Products with a Mind of Their Own: Lessons Learned from Managing AI Products" ▶ Key takeaways: 1️⃣ Manage your AI products like a coach/mentor/parent 2️⃣ Retraining the model is not always the answer for better results 3️⃣ Product folks are uniquely positioned to ask the "dumb"/right questions about AI outputs, like: -What is the data *actually* telling us? -What's the context? -Um, why aren't the X and Y axes labeled?! #NYPC #INDUSTRYConf #productmanagement

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LUXE | With luxury fashion prices on the rise, those accustomed to lavish spending are pushing back against high-end purchases. Instead, they're turning to alternative brands for their fashion fix. These emerging labels offer stylish alternatives that cater to budget-conscious consumers while still providing the quality and aesthetic appeal they desire, reshaping the landscape of the fashion industry and challenging the dominance of traditional luxury brands. https://lnkd.in/g7TfFTFG

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🧠🧠🧠 Let's not forget that daily model updates does not mean marketers need to leverage their MMM every single day. It means that our data is ready when YOU need it, not when we feel like running the model. Does that cost more for us? Sure it does. But maybe doing things just a bit differently is what our industry needs. Reach out if you have questions 🤙🏼

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Button is now supercharging creator and affiliate programs for the largest retailers with impact.com! Building a business model on top of commerce is what people call future proofing. This is the direction the internet is heading, and it's great to see two of the largest players collaborating on different but complementary parts of the ecosystem to drive increased value for our customers. Combining the scale of Impact's platform with the AI powered commerce optimization Button delivers - joint customers can drive more incremental profit, additional HVAs like app installs, and improve their shoppers experiences like never before. Check out our case study below and the others on our site! #commerceisthefuture #commerceoptimization #mobileappinstalls #higherprofit #incrementalgrowth https://lnkd.in/e7mxKMqq

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