💡I spent money to generate videos with Google's Veo3 + software engineers are not artisans

Joke: Why did the machine learning model get fired as a tailor?
(Answer below ⬇️)

Latest content to boost you

• I spent $18 to create 3 videos using Google's new Veo3 model. Here's what its produced (with prompts)
  
  My conclusion: this changes how media is created. You can now create realistic videos with realistic audio in a couple of minutes.

• An “agent” is just an LLM in a loop. Quick guide (not from me) on How to build an agent (Go)
  👉 Read the guide

Other things I’ve been reading

Software engineers are not artisans. They solve problems.
- “Professional software developers are in the business of solving practical problems for people with code. We are not, in our day jobs, artisans."
- "Do you like fine Japanese woodworking? Do it on your own time ... If I need a table for people to sit at in my office? I buy a fucking table.”
Full article by Ptacek here

You can’t understand a symphony by listening to 10-second snippets: Why vector-RAG doesn’t work well for large documents

Trends in Artificial Intelligence
This in-depth report offers stats and forecasts on AI’s trajectory across sectors. Very interesting (and very long)

Thrive in Obscurity – Publish anyway
- "The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway"
- "Most things take forever to bear fruit”

Sending you best wishes from a rainy June day in London

Tom

Joke: Why did the machine learning model get fired as a tailor?
Answer: It kept overfitting 🎉