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Nicolay Gerold

@nicolaygerold.com
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Daytime: building ai systems & platforms @ Aisbach Nighttime: hacking on generative ai Host of How AI Is Built

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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 19/05/2025
Not sure whether Codex or Devin are saving me time. The workflow is off. They are made to push to the remote, which completely breaks the workflow (working directory -> staging -> remote). So you push or make a pr, pull it down, check whether it's working or ...
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 19/05/2025
Garmin (yesterday) : you did a hard workout, minimum recovery 48 hours Garmin (today) : time to run 24 minutes at 5k threshold pace
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 16/05/2025
OpenCode is really stepping it up. I love the sidebar stuff. Really plays well with nvim.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 15/05/2025
i dream of a world with a single consistent markdown format
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 13/05/2025
@transistor.fm When I put and episode in "Draft" and then schedule it a few days out, the start date in the analytics should still be the day I post the episode not the day I created the draft
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 13/05/2025
@howaiisbuilt.fm is back. most AI conversations obsess over capabilities. This one focuses on constraints - the right ones that make AI actually useful rather than just impressive demos. open.spotify.com/episode/1MbZ...
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 30/04/2025
Why does only Zed have autocomplete in the chat
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 25/04/2025
Thanks buddy
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Daniel Davis @trustspooky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Thanks to @nicolay.fyi for giving me the opportunity to talk about @trustgraph.bsky.social on How AI Is Built! Labels such as "facts", "observations", and "assertions" take on new meanings when we begin to consider time. Click 👇 to watch the full episode! 🎙️ youtu.be/VpFVAE3L1nk?
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Temporal RAG: Embracing Time for Smarter, Reliable Knowledge Graphs
YouTube video by How AI Is Built
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 13/02/2025
Does anyone have a clue about what data structure is used for Google Docs? Suggestions, comments, collaborative editing,...?
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 13/02/2025
EU mobilizes 200 billion Euros for AI. Unless we have a massive political change that money will just go to waste. For innovation to happen, we don't need money first, but deregulation. We cannot work on breakthrough technologies, when we are at constant fear of being sued.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 13/02/2025
RAG is dead. Long live RAG. LLMs suck at long context. This paper shows what I have seen in most deployments. With longer contexts, performance degrades.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 04/02/2025
foqos.app "Physically block distracting apps" Grab a NFC tag, lock your app, throw NFC tag off balcony, start coding.
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Foqos - Focus with NFC
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 01/02/2025
I am dreaming up an Excel backend. Excel as the frontend, Iceberg as the backend. But how do you handle formulas, pivot tables, ...? How do you malformatted sheets? You probably have to put restrictions on what you can do with Excel so it's valid to be stored.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 01/02/2025
human clipboards is the best description I have heard for people who just copy and paste code and errors from and to ChatGPT
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 01/02/2025
The more I learn about MLOps, the more it's ops first, ML second. Start with: - Build serverless apps - Write infrastructure code - Set up CI/CD - Run VMs & databases - Deploy Kubernetes ML comes after you can build things that work.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 31/01/2025
TIL: In Postgres, you can dollar quote strings with a lot of ' so you don't have to double each '. $$Dianne's horse$$ $SomeTag$Dianne's horse$SomeTag$
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 31/01/2025
That's probably one of the best websites I have ever seen and one of the best experiences on the web www.stripe.press/poor-charlie...
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Experience the wit and wisdom of Charles T. Munger online, for free. Originally published in 2005, this compilation of 11 talks by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman has become a touchston...
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 31/01/2025
Dropping some new episodes on @howaiisbuilt.fm . Links below.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 25/01/2025
New podcast with Alex Garcia on search in sqlite
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 18/01/2025
TIL: Ionos has 1€ email for your custom domain.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 18/01/2025
Coming back and back again to the same question: How can I make it easy to experiment? With genAI it will be easier to generate alternatives and options. So for almost anything, I want to generate a lot of options, vote for the best one, test it in a sandbox, A/B test, deploy it... (rollback)
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 18/01/2025
Really interesting paper. Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt static.googleusercontent.com/media/resear...
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 18/01/2025
That's surprisingly on brand.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 18/01/2025
Good pipes beat perfect models.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 17/01/2025
What are some of the top applied ai / data engineering blogs (companies)? I would put prefect up there, temporal is great, modal as well.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 16/01/2025
Best youtube channel, prove me wrong www.youtube.com/shorts/-E9-Y...
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Who’s turning all their leftover cheeses into a cheeky little fondue then? 😋 #cheese #fondue #scran
YouTube video by Elburritomonster
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 16/01/2025
Google will win the GenAI but lose the search.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 11/01/2025
Testing the Bluesky API with curl! 🚀
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 09/01/2025
Developers treat search as a blackbox. Throw everything in a vector database and hope something good comes out. Throw all ranking signals into one big ML model and hope it makes something good out of it. You don’t want to create this witch’s cauldron. New episode on @howaiisbuilt.fm
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 03/01/2025
I spent too much time on logging today. nicolay.fyi/til/setting-...
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Setting Up Proper Logging
Spent too much time on logging today. Here's what I learned.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 03/01/2025
The biggest lie in RAG is that semantic search is simple. The reality is that it's easy to build, it's easy to get up and running, but it's really hard to get right. And if you don't have a good setup, it's near impossible to debug. One of the reasons it's really hard is chunking.
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Hannes Mühleisen @hannes.muehleisen.org · 02/01/2025
Data tragedy: ODBC supports *columnar* data retrieval (SQL_BIND_BY_COLUMN) but using it actually *slows things down* for large result sets, from SQL server of all things
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 03/01/2025
I am looking for someone hacking with knowledge graphs. Grateful for any intros / recs.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 01/01/2025
2024 in review. nicolay.fyi/posts/person...
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2024 in review: Everything I Built, Broke, and Learned in 2024
I built one venture, scaled another, ran an agency, and launched a podcast. Here's what I wish someone had told me last year.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 24/12/2024
The search stack we deserve: ✅ Document understanding ✅ Query understanding ✅ Exact matching when needed The search stack we have: "lol just embed it"
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 23/12/2024
All I want for christmas is a cluster of blackwells.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 23/12/2024
@merve.bsky.social Can you show the Amazon people how to use a VLM to do the handwriting recognition. That's atrocious.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 23/12/2024
Getting ads for the remarkable pro while watching a review on the new Kindle Scribe. Someone got their targeting down.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 22/12/2024
Focus on data quality, pick the right tools, and let AI do the heavy lifting.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 22/12/2024
Monday: 'I'll use design patterns and create good abstractions!' Friday: 'log.debug() is my design pattern'"
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Olivia 🦀 @iolivia.me · 21/12/2024
Awesome research about recovery oriented computing from @nicolay.fyi . I think it makes a ton of sense and it's also very aligned with a lot of modern development where we invest in fast time to production with good tooling for fast rollbacks/recovery/etc.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 21/12/2024
Ninety-Ninety Rule: "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 21/12/2024
My perfect programming language: - Clean and straightforward syntax of Go - Rust compiler & package manager - Erlang's "Let it crash" - Python's ecosystem
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 21/12/2024
Looking for an Azure engineer for a project (freelance). Multi-month contract, workload roughly 10-20h / week. Data pipelines, schema discovery, schema management. DMs are open.
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 21/12/2024
I think it's quite interesting that when you chat with Claude or ChatGPT on "AI", it by default assumes LLMs. "Higher memory usage allows for larger context windows and more complex operations" Really mirrors the general population.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21/12/2024
I see so much FUD about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.” A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs over 10+ years
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 20/12/2024
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail"
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 20/12/2024
"Pick your core business competencies and goals, and do those in house. If you’re a software company, writing excellent code is how you’re going to succeed. Go ahead and outsource the company cafeteria and the CD-ROM duplication....
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 19/12/2024
A new workhorse is something I can get down with. Will report on the weekend how it holds up.
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