alt Hacker NewsSalvatore, how did you pick up the requisite background knowledge on this subject? IIRC this is your first OSS project in the ML domain, just curious if/how much Claude was helpful with providing you with domain expertise while building this engine
Salvatore, how did you pick up the requisite background knowledge on this subject? IIRC this is your first OSS project in the ML domain, just curious if/how much Claude was helpful with providing you with domain expertise while building this engine
Hello, I always used to play with AI. I wrote this, some time ago, just to make an example:
https://github.com/antirez/gguf-tools
And I have a YouTube channel mostly about AI (in Italian language) where I regularly post videos and often read papers that I then explain in the channel. I have a long time passion about AI, I wrote my first NN implementation in 2003 (used here, many years ago, as a showcase of Redis modules https://github.com/antirez/neural-redis), and never stopped since there to implement, for fun, small GPT models and things like that, using PyTorch or C.
Also my work at Redis Vector Sets, in the latest year, exposed me more to working with models (especially text embedding models of many kinds, but also other models).
So while Claude was fundamental to get the implementation fast, I had background to have idea about what was happening in the different stages. I believe it is a very interesting question to understand if this kind of work can be made with programming background and near-zero AI background. My feeling is that you ned more time, more back and forth, maybe to provide the agent with more examples, but eventually it will do something working.