What is AI Bits
and why I made this newsletter
If you’ve been following my shenanigans online then you know I’m not shy when it comes to voicing my own opinions. I’ve created courses and taught thousands how to code and level up as engineers. I’m not as active as I once was, but I engaged with folks on Twitter, helping them find jobs and opportunities. Eventually I created a YouTube channel where I shared my stories. There’s a theme here.
Encouraging change.
I keep coming back to expressing and sharing my learnings, all with different mediums, but I didn’t realize it until the other day. I have this desire to inspire change. Give people things to think about and try. It’s actually how I learn, by finding inspiration from others and the things they say, the things they create. Growing up, finding inspiration was a battle on it’s own. So it’s innate for me to want to help inspire anyone who’s looking.
I’m lazy asf.
So why this newsletter? Well, after trying out so many other mediums, except TikTok, sorry, I just can’t get into it, I realized it required too much work on my end for me to get the results I wanted. Also my style of sharing is raw, I say what’s on my mind without wanting filter it too much. When I was actively making youtube videos, I’d find myself stuck. Planning out a script, getting my set ready, shooting takes over and over, editing (I had an editor, but still), it just felt like work. Sure, I could just talk into a camera and hit upload, but, I wanted something more polished. Call me bougie. But writing is different. Doing a second take is as easy as hitting deleting and letting my fingers burn some calories. Planning is low effort, and the editing lift is simple too. I just want to share what’s on my mind without having to think too much and put in crazy hours to get it to a point where I want people to see it.
AI this, AI that.
Now AI bits is exactly that, a bunch or little things here and there that discover, learn, and try while I’m out here in the Bay, seeing it all. I’ve realized as a VC at a top firm, an experienced engineer, and a prev founder, I have a unique perspective on many things in tech and startup industries. Lately, my interests have all been AI, and it’s got all my perspectives standing at attention like I’m back in Navy Bootcamp. The engineer in me spends ours building things with new open source projects, or trying to train the perfect anime LoRA on my face with stable diffusion. Like this:
The investor in me is thrilled to see how some of the brightest minds are out here solving problems about bringing LLMs to production and creating unique experiences in software never seen before. The founder in me is curious on how leveraging AI internally so effortlessly would help with growth and getting to PMF sooner. I see and hear a lot when it comes to AI, other than basketball and my family, there isn’t something out there I could talk about more.
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I’m still figuring things out, but I will do my best to provide you all with quality sh*t you can’t find anywhere else because it exists only in my head 🫠. Feel free to reach out to me if there’s something you want me to checkout!
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