Happy Monday from Florence, where I gave a keynote at PyCon Italia on Saturday. The conference was wonderful and the city is wonderful. I wrote up my talk notes here. I’ve also included the video recording from PyCon Italia. The post is long, but the TL;DR is that in working with LLMs over the past year, I’ve found that there are several important things to building a good product and getting value out of LLMs. They mostly involve good old traditional machine learning and engineering skil...