Pieterjan Criel

🧑‍💻Engineering Manager @showpad
🤟 working on Generative AI features and Data products
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Dad of two, 🇧🇪 Ghent
🧠 Innovation at Aicon Inc

[Willem Delbare @WDelbare]

I had the worst pitch meeting with a VC: @madelinelawren

She said no to our pre-seed, “you’re wearing the jerseys, but you're not a team yet”

Anyways, she’s now officially our CGO and late co-founder

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Spent the last 2 days playing with GraphRAG on the Apollo 11 transcripts 🚀🌕
https://t.co/WFzZrANwOv

🧱 Structure upfront > clever prompts
🔗 Entities + relations > loose chunks
👍 Nova 2 embeddings are pretty nice

Organise for retrieval. That’s the real win 🎯

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Updated my AWS AgentCore repo with a Memory object https://t.co/Jz2HviwGVa / https://t.co/YTO8bB2dYK

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

https://t.co/hPW3es71BH — we’ve added some new features in Fence LLM

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Vibe-coding by non-engineers is the cure for imposter syndrome!

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

📣 New Post; https://t.co/cHr5mQbHgC

Building an AI product isn't about chasing the biggest model. 🧠 It's about building a robust system around it.

Most AI features fail not because the model is "weak," but because the foundations are fragile. 💔

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Fence 🤺 has support for MCP servers since a few weeks! We've made a short article on how to use it (in combination with e.g. Agent side tools) as a part II in the series on building AI agents with Fence on top of AWS Lambda and Dynamo.
https://t.co/zFk9oWkaYp

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

New article! “Fence Meets AgentCore: A Minimalist Framework Goes Enterprise-Grade on AWS”. If you’re building agents, check it out! https://t.co/skE71gYWtm

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Fence-LLM is in the majors! https://t.co/Ydiil2hJp5 (1.0.4) -- We started some articles to help you ship Fence Agents in production! (Fully Serverless)
https://t.co/g07jSsX8e0
Part 1: define and deploy

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Already on main, soon in the release; We've added support for @MistralAI 🇫🇷🇪🇺models / embeddings in Fence🤺!

https://t.co/GNg8ZKr1Dc

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Filling up nicely 🤩

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

With out recent updates to Fence-llm
https://t.co/meL1SdbKPy
Example of a fully local RAG (Ollama/Chroma) with contextual embeddings

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

New release! Fence-llm now supports embeddings as well! https://t.co/pQWTxQ54nP

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

@maartengm Oh no!

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

We added support for Google Gemini today!🤺
https://t.co/dcEVercQ0c

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Good morning #gent 🌈

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Presentation time 😬.

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Deze ochtend spelen we zat of slecht te been in Gent centrum

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

@patrickdebois Depending on the temperature

[Pieterjan Criel @pjcr]

Small POC on storing prompts yourself “Storing and retrieving prompts in DynamoDB”
https://t.co/8H4sxZXVKf