Vicki Boykis

Machine learning engineer, recommender systems and infra

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Machine learning engineer, recommender systems and infra with public evidence across AI research, AI business.

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Something happens to my brain after agentic coding that I can’t describe. It’s like cognitive offloading which folks have already written about, but even more. It feels like I can’t think through problems anymore. Like a fog. Using agentic but losing my hard-won agency.

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the actual most revolutionary thing the ai labs have actually done is make it look like it's insanely easy to duct tape together python microservices with all their concurrency issues and trained models with all their transformers issues and have them run as one api call

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Curious about people’s ML dependency management strategies in the face of supply chain risks. Often pinning dependencies particularly in the torch/HuggingFace ecosystem is the only way to create reproducible training and inference code but that means dependabot isn’t happy.

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