Young Reacts #231
Every organization is unique in its own way. They have their own culture, values, and ways of doing things. Netflix was different from my past startup experiences. Square was different from Netflix. And The Trade Desk is yet again different from Square. I always see the good, the bad, and the ugly. Sometimes, I felt empowered to fix the bad. Other times, I wanted to run away.
Software Engineering ⚙️
All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs
Honeycomb concludes that it is essential to focus on the features that LLMs can enable rather than the technology itself. And the technology is not as easy to use as creating custom prompts. Performance, security, and data privacy should be considered from the start.
Prompt injection explained
Prompt injection is a security vulnerability that can be exploited to trick a large language model (LLM) into generating harmful or unwanted output. Since LLM is probabilistic, there is no safe way to ensure a specific behavior. So the author recommends either limiting the input to the model or restricting the privilege the model has.
How to accelerate the adoption of your internal platform
Overcoming the inertia in a large organization is always tricky. It’s important to think from your internal customers’ perspective to win over the audience. If they say they are too busy, it means there is too much friction.
TBM 224: The Black Box
Once a team gets overwhelmed with fire-fighting, the typical response, adding additional status updates, is prone to create more work and further distractions for the team. So true from my past experiences.
People ❤️
Would You Go Into Business With Your Life Partner? These Couples Did
My wife and I sometimes talk about starting a business together. I balk at the idea because I fear it will complicate our relationship. But here are five couples who figured it out. Their advice to separate work stress from personal stress makes a lot of sense to me.
5 things to keep in mind when you hear about Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers and other generations
Generational differences are often exaggerated. While there are distinct life experiences that define their generations (climate change, 9/11, or financial crises), generations in their youth were more alike than you’d think.
Business 💰
Filings reveal PE and VC returns amid escalating write-downs
Because of the tech downturn, the returns for private equity and venture capital also diminished. Some have seen their returns decline by double digits. What will happen when these funds mature and return less than expected returns to pension funds, trusts, and health care systems?
Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom
I just learned that Nvidia ($970B) now has a larger market cap than Meta ($700B). It was surprising, but I can see Nvidia having as significant impact on society as Meta does, thanks to the advance in AI.