Talip Ozturk

co-founder of Vectroid, founder of @hazelcast, ex- @google.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

Building a product is hard. Building the product right is harder. Building the right product is the hardest.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

A great founding team setup is Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. One founder zeroes in on building the best product in the world and the other handles early distribution.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

Hope you invested in @redpandadata in 2020. Now it is a $1b company and it is too late for @confluentinc to acquire. Congrats @emaxerrno, well-done! https://t.co/vAwGsifryg

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

Redpanda is an important project to watch. I think @emaxerrno will make it big. Invest if you can.
https://t.co/xwvI5Xk3td

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@spyced @PeterVeentjer Can you please provide the link for the dataset?

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

Vinod Koshla "90% of investors add no value, 70% add negative value" https://t.co/98LA4SbH4c

[Ubicloud @UbicloudHQ]

We are building a new cloud—one that is open source, can run anywhere, and costs 3-10x less. Join our Rebel Alliance, as we launch part of @ycombinator W24!

https://t.co/mpgQ0WHL53

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

I like the bluesky brand, new home of tweeting birds. https://t.co/HARl2tcjU2. Who else is there?

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@jerrinot Awesome to see @hazelcast people pushing the boundaries. Congrats to you all. 🚀

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@denizoktar Geçmiş olsun Deniz. Sevgiler.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Seriously though — what did Ilya see?

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@umurc Congrats! Enjoy the journey.

[Amr Awadallah 🤖 @awadallah]

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[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

“LLM fine-tuning is not the right way of dealing with the hallucination issue” - @awadallah at #vectara event.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

“Move from AI models to AI systems to combine multiple tools such as RAG to avoid hallucination and improve quality” - @matei_zaharia at #vectara event.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@matei_zaharia “move from AI models to AI systems to combine multiple tools such as RAG to avoid hallucination and improve quality” at #vectara event.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@erenbali Even being able to discuss such things is a big thing, let alone saying it loud in twitter. Brave.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

@erenbali @omerartun Ali Nazik at Meyhouse is incredible.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

Jokes for AI people:
"Which movie made a big impact in AI?"
Transformers.
"What would be good name for a baby Megatron?"
Perceptron.
"What is that all you and Perceptron need?"
Attention.

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

New meme: "there is an AI model for that".

[Talip Ozturk @oztalip]

Tonight in SF, let's talk about LLMs & hallucination. Looking forward to meeting you all.

[Vectara @vectara]

If you're SF next week - we are holding a special event for LLM enthusiasts. Learn about LLMs: how they work, why they hallucinate and ways to address hallucinations.

Space is limited. RSVP at https://t.co/m9djSuHeYO