Mike Taylor
14 things Mike uses or recommends, from 7 episodes.
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Uses and recommends it · talked about in 5 episodes
"I rated this like green gold. Basically I think it almost would have been a gold apart from it just messed up a couple of tasks due to poor time management. It's really easy to talk to. It's like Fable 5.1 level in terms of personality. And it shed all of those weird quirks that Opus 5 had, which was what originally made me switch and make the leap to Codex."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"The magic words that you found, like they don't resonate with this new model. And so DSPy I think solved that problem for me, which is I can do all the fun stuff around the prompt, but I don't need to write the prompt anymore... My DSPy programs I've written 2 years ago still work. I just keep changing the model, re-optimizing them."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"One of the tricks I like to do in DSPy... it's called an optimizer evaluator pattern. If I have a subjective test like, 'Hey, does this rewritten text look like AI?' I will first use DSPy to train the judge and then I'll use the judge to train the task... I've used this optimizer evaluator pattern on basically every project I've worked on."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I spent a bunch of time doing video generation over the weekend, and the Omni Flash model, which isn't the same thing as Argon, is just unbelievable... I looked at it and I was like, oh my God, it's basically like real life now."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"Just get someone to interview you, even if a couple of hours of interviews on different topics, and you're going to have more material than you know what to do with... I found that a human interviewer, especially if you're in the same room instead of on Zoom, you just have more insight."
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All 14 of Mike's picks
- Claude Uses and recommends it 5 episodes "I rated this like green gold. Basically I think it almost would have been a gold apart from it just messed up a couple of tasks due to poor time management. It's really easy to talk to. It's like Fable 5.1 level in terms of personality. And it shed all of those weird quirks that Opus 5 had, which was what originally made me switch and make the leap to Codex." +245 others
- DSPy Uses and recommends it "The magic words that you found, like they don't resonate with this new model. And so DSPy I think solved that problem for me, which is I can do all the fun stuff around the prompt, but I don't need to write the prompt anymore... My DSPy programs I've written 2 years ago still work. I just keep changing the model, re-optimizing them." Only Mike
- Optimizer-evaluator pattern Uses and recommends it "One of the tricks I like to do in DSPy... it's called an optimizer evaluator pattern. If I have a subjective test like, 'Hey, does this rewritten text look like AI?' I will first use DSPy to train the judge and then I'll use the judge to train the task... I've used this optimizer evaluator pattern on basically every project I've worked on." Only Mike
- Omni Flash Uses and recommends it "I spent a bunch of time doing video generation over the weekend, and the Omni Flash model, which isn't the same thing as Argon, is just unbelievable... I looked at it and I was like, oh my God, it's basically like real life now." Only Mike
- ChatGPT Uses it "I think it was around GPT-4 I managed to fully automate my writing. I had my LinkedIn completely automated... I'd even written a whole e-book using GPT-4, and when I sent it to my client they couldn't tell that it wasn't me that had written it." +155 others
- Interview transcripts for voice capture Recommends it "Just get someone to interview you, even if a couple of hours of interviews on different topics, and you're going to have more material than you know what to do with... I found that a human interviewer, especially if you're in the same room instead of on Zoom, you just have more insight." Only Mike
- Monologue Uses it "This is just the transcript, for I use Monologue to transcribe, you know, another plug for Every product... I'll create a tab called prompt and then I'll monologue into that tab." +7 others
- Pydantic Uses it "I just made that output object in Pydantic and then passed that in... I'd written all this extra code of like, hey, if it doesn't come out with this, then try again. And none of it was needed. It nailed everything in the first shot." Only Mike
- Granola Uses it "Go back through all of my Granola notes, and then pull the narrative of the video together with receipts, right? Like with references to the specific things that I'd said in Slack or in meetings." +14 others
- Grok Uses it "When I use the Grok bot, for example, it's the same one in the car, it's the same one in my Twitter feed when I ask questions. It's all unified, and I feel like that's what Google needs to do." +35 others
- Codex Uses it "That was what originally made me switch and make the leap to Codex. And so I've been using the OpenAI models since then as like my main daily driver. The 50% I'm doing with Codex is really just because I have a lot of existing threads there and those are slowly moving over." +96 others
- Compound Engineering Uses it "I'm using like Kieran who we work with on Kora like he has compound engineering this kind of plugin that we use day-to-day to basically scale up the amount of development work we can do" +6 others
- Slack Uses it "we're doing meeting notes, we're doing like you know, tell me like prepare me for my meetings like where do I need to go and when and like what do I need to look at in Slack" +52 others
- Waymo Uses it "I had a similar experience with Waymo as well. I don't know if you've driven one of the self-driving cars... it's like I was like, 'Oh my god, this is kind of terrifying.' within like 10 minutes I was just checking my phone" +12 others