GenAI Patterns: RAG Limitations and Hybrid Retriever
Today Bharani Subramaniam and I outline four limitations to the simple RAG from yesterday, and the pattern that addresses the first of these: Hybrid Retriever. This tackles the inefficiencies of…
Panel at goto Copenhagen: "Where is SW development Going
was on a panel at goto Copenhagen last September with Holly Cummings, Trisha Gee, Dave Farley, and Daniel Terhorst-North. We discussed the current state of software development and where it…
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
A pre-trained GenAI model lacks recent and specific information about a domain. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) can fill that gap. more… Source: martinfowler
Bliki: Forest And Desert
The Forest and the Desert is a metaphor for thinking about software development processes, developed by Beth Andres-Beck and hir father Kent Beck. It posits that two communities of software…
Embeddings in GenAI Products
GenAI systems, like many modern AI approaches, have to handle vast quantities of data, and find similarities between elements in an image or chunk of words. Bharani Subramaniam and I…
Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products
Everyone is fascinated about using generative AI these days, and my colleagues are no exception. Some of them have had the opportunity to put these system into practice, both as…
My favorite musical discoveries of 2024
I’ve got into the habit of starting the New Year by sharing six favorite albums I discovered during the last year. This years set includes Celtic jazz, trip-hop neo-fado, jazz-fusion…
A more complex codemod
Juntao Qiu moves onto a more complex example of a codemod, one that extracts a tooltip responsibility from a JSX component. This illustrates how to manipulate the AST in several…
Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes
As a library developer, you may create a popular utility that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on daily, such as lodash or React. Over time, usage patterns might emerge…