It’s been that time of the year, again. No Denis and no Hisham this time, but I still got to spend time with other FOSDEM regulars Gawen, Benoît, and Thijs. I also met Corentin, Sylvain and Mehdi, and got introduced to Hugo.
Here is a list of talks I saw:
This year I didn’t write the list above by hand. I gave the URLs to an agent and the format I wanted and told it to make it. It’s a detail, but I do things like this many times a day now.
I also had agents work for me over the FOSDEM weekend. They ported a personal web application I have from a Lua Web server to another Lua Web server, from a CSS framework to another CSS framework, and added end-to-end tests with Playwright. Oh, and the application is in Teal so they wrote the definition files for mote too. All I had to do was describe the task and nudge the agents in the right direction in between talks. If I did not have those agents, I would just never have done all this.
At work, I’m back to training models this week, after a long time working solely on inference. Going from zero to GPUs going brr with nontrivial things like adversarial learning and brand new, (almost) working experiment tracking (because OpenAI is killing the old one) took me roughly a day.
And that was with the old agents. I can’t wait to see how well my new minions do tomorrow.