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  1. Product Hunt Rollercoaster: Launching 16x Prompt
    Mar 23, 2024 · original
    The Product Hunt launch for my new product was a rollercoaster ride. Here’s my story on launching 16x Prompt , the ups and downs, and the lessons learned along the way. Pre-Launch 16x Prompt came from a need to simplify generating coding prompts for ChatGPT. I wrote more about the need to streamline the process in my post on ChatGPT for Coding Tasks: Best Practices , but it is essentially a desktop app that generates coding prompts for developers by adding source code context and formatting instructions into the prompt. Days before the launch, I was busy polishing and adding more user-requested features into 16x Prompt, getting the product ready for the big day. However, I didn’t go all out to build the anticipation for the launch. I wanted to keep it low-key and see how it would fare organically. In hindsight, building some pre-launch buzz could have helped in getting more traction. Lau
  2. ChatGPT for Coding Tasks: Best Practices
    Feb 3, 2024 · original
    As software engineers, we are either excited or worried for the prospect of ChatGPT automating our jobs. Maybe you have tried using ChatGPT for writing code, but it hasn’t worked out as well as you hoped. Or maybe you are just getting started and want to make sure you are using ChatGPT effectively. The question boils down to: “ How to use ChatGPT for coding? ” I have been using ChatGPT for coding tasks for several months and replaced about 80% of my coding tasks with ChatGPT. Here are some best practices I have learned along the way. Use ChatGPT Classic With recent reveal of the ChatGPT system prompt in this tweet , people are realizing that ChatGPT has a lot of extra instructions built into the system prompt: These extra instructions allow ChatGPT to offer additional capabilities such as image generation and web browsing. However, it is at the expense of taking up previous token limit f
  3. nanoGPT Guide: Train your own GPT model
    Dec 29, 2023 · original
    nanoGPT is an excellent project for understanding how GPT works. It is a minimal reproduction of GPT-2, trained on OpenWebText. It is a great starting point for anyone who wants to learn how to train a GPT model. Even though the steps outlined in the README are easy to follow, but setting everything up to get it working is not a trivial task, especially for someone who is not familiar with the cloud infrastructure and GPU drivers. I have spent a few days to get it working on Azure with NVIDIA T4 GPU. I hope my tutorial can help you save some time and get you started with training your own GPT model. Hardware When it comes to training a proper GPT model, you need a proper GPU. The creator of nanoGPT karpathy used 8 A100 40GB GPUs and it took about 4 days to get to a loss of ~2.85. One such GPU is currently selling at $6,250.00 USD on eBay now. To rent a VM instance with one single A100 GP
  4. Life as a Self-Employed Software Engineer
    Oct 20, 2023 · original
    In my previous post , I wrote about how I transitioned from a software engineer in big tech to running my own business. In this post, I will go into more depth on how exactly my business works and what my daily life looks like and some pros and cons of this lifestyle. Part-time Contract & Responsibilities Part-time contracts are the bulk of how I make money right now. They offer decent and stable income, and a unique sense of value that working on your product would not provide. These contracts are remote, part-time and long-term in nature. In terms of responsibilities, it is similar to senior IC level or team lead level in a typical tech company, including: System architecture design and prototyping (designing audit log system, email notification system, inference model deployment, etc) System integration design and implementation (SSO login, 3rd-party API integration) Project managemen
  5. Journey from Big Tech to My Own Business
    Sep 21, 2023 · original
    In March 2022, I left my SWE job at a tech company to pursue a different lifestyle. It has been over a year since I embarked on this journey. A lot of people are interested in learning more about the whole process, the thinking and the risks involved. So I am writing this long post to talk about it. Backstory I had always been an independent person who liked building my own stuff. I made my own website in primary school, built mobile games and apps through my high school and college. When I graduated in 2017 from NUS Computer Science, I had a chance to build my own startup, but I chose to work at Grab as a software engineer instead. I knew doing my own startup as a foreigner would be very risky and a lot of trouble, especially because I had scholarship bonds. I wanted to minimize the risk in my early career and “stabilize” my circumstances before taking on risks. Passion Projects Through
  6. Staying Motivated in Big Tech Companies
    Jun 24, 2023 · original
    As a junior software engineer in a large tech firm, you might occasionally find yourself grappling with feelings of insignificance - feeling like a tiny cog in a massive machine. This is a common sentiment, but don’t let this mindset cloud your motivation or hamper your performance. Here’s some advice from seasoned engineers on how to keep your motivation high, own your projects, and give your best in every task you undertake. 1. Understand Your Role and Its Impact The first step towards maintaining motivation is to comprehend your role and how it contributes to the broader objectives of your organization. Whether you’re working on a small feature or debugging code, your work should matter. Try to connect your everyday tasks with the end goal – like improving user experience, increasing product efficiency, or even driving business growth. On the flip side, if you’re not able to see the i
  7. LinkedIn Personal Branding Tips
    Oct 25, 2022 · original
    Personal branding on LinkedIn is becoming increasingly more important for tech professionals. For founders and people working in sales, it is a big lead generation funnel. For engineers, it is a public résumé to showcase your profile and experience. Even if you don’t have a specific goal in mind, having a strong personal brand will help to expand your network and reach, opening up doors for new opportunities. Having spent a few years experimenting on how to build a personal brand on LinkedIn, here are my top 6 tips for personal branding on LinkedIn. 1. Algorithm and Engagement Underpinning everything else is the LinkedIn feed algorithm optimizing for engagements . From my observation, the LinkedIn feed algorithm will initially show your post to a random set of people that either follows you or shows interest in the hashtags you use. You can get 50 to 200 impressions from this initial poo
  8. Chinese Tech Terms Explained In English
    Oct 18, 2022 · original
    Chinese tech companies like ByteDance and Tencent are setting up engineering offices outside China. Local hires in these global offices are becoming a norm. These locally hired engineers typically have limited Chinese language proficiency. It is a challenge for them to understand the Chinese tech terms used in their daily work, and to communicate with their Chinese colleagues. Here are 5 common Chinese tech terms, along with explanations and examples of usage in a sentence. Huidu 灰度 huī dù Huidu is a widely used Chinese technical term in companies like Tencent and Alibaba. Huidu means rolling out experimental new features to a small subset of users for testing. The implication of huidu is that the new feature may be launched officially (at a later date), or scrapped if it did not have the desired outcome. Huidu in English The literal translation of huidu is “grayscale”, “gray release” or
  9. Difference between IT and Tech
    Aug 23, 2022 · original
    Back in the days, IT was synonymous with technology. IT department meant the tech department. However, with the rise of software industry and huge number of Internet companies, these terms have new meanings now. The illustration below shows the difference between IT and tech (software engineering) in software industry. IT (Information Technology) IT work mainly refers to such as software administration, office network management, as well as handling physical assets such as computers, laptop and printers. In terms of software, IT is mainly about running and upgrading internal software . These software can be developed internally or purchased from external vendor. IT jobs can be found in any industries, including tech industry. IT jobs in tech industry are not much different from IT jobs in other industries. For example, you can have an IT role for managing computers for McDonald’s as well

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