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Nobody thrives on rejection – here are reasons I didn’t take job offers

End of this month is my last day at Microsoft. I didn’t plan this. My original plan was to keep being a representative of that company and work on the amazing products it builds. Market forces, however, caused yet another reorg and as there was no other department with openings for remote work in Germany, […]

PrivateGPT – Running “ChatGPT” offline on local documents

You can download the GPT model and interrogate local files using Python without having to send any data to the cloud. PrivateGPT is a python script to interrogate local files using GPT4ALL, an open source large language model. It is pretty straight forward to set up: Clone the repo Download the LLM – about 10GB […]

I just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well

As part of one of the job applications I have going I was invited to do a frontend expertise exercise. The role I am applying for is head of frontend for a company. Whilst I found it odd to have to go through this, with my track record being highly visible, I thought, why not? […]

Developer Tools That Shouldn’t Be Secrets • Christian Heilmann • GOTO 2022

Hooray, Goto conferences just released the video of my talk on Developer Tools. If you want to play along with the examples, they are available on GitHub.

An open proposal to OpenAI, Bard, Amazon, et al…: GPTeachers

First of all, congratulations. You managed to kick off the next step of computer and human interaction evolution. Of course we’re in the middle of a hype, but there is so much good in AI generated content and conversational interfaces, it’s pretty safe to say all things “computer” will have some part of this included […]