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Hey folks, how do you personally evaluate new HN models? Vibes? Or do you have some tests you like to run? Or do you just use them in your IDE/text iterface for a bit and see how it feels? I know we could probably trust some more public benchmarks but I'm curious on personal evaluation techniques. Thanks!

Hi HN, which SaaS providers are you eyeing up these days for your RAG needs with thousands of PDFs or Word docs and with a agent that can take its time and give well researched, cited answers? TIA!

Hey team, as we all are on our learning with AI/GPTs/LLMs etc, I am looking for recommendations for what creators (YouTubers etc) are making high quality content about small tips and tricks, new use cases, reliable approaches, prompting advice etc?

Noting that The Serverless Framework V4 is changing licensing models, has anyone found any alternates? Built their own?

I’m thinking about starting an engineering blog at my company. We have an internal JS/AWS/backend “meetup” every two weeks and some of those talks could easily be stripped of sensitive IP and turned into blog content. However, I don’t often find myself reading engineering blogs of other companies. Do you? Why/why not? Any tips or thoughts welcome! Thanks :)

I was trying to articulate this the other day to a direct report and wondered if HN had some thoughts

I think the dimensions are/could be defined as:

- Time/Years (the most objective, but least accurate imho), - Density/Intensity (i.e 10 years in a fast paced company is different to 10 years at a slow company), - Variety (how many different things you've done, just development with X framework, or multiple frameworks) - Depth (how deep did you go, eg making features with simple APIs vs making contributions to the framework)

What do you think? Are there more dimensions? Fewer? Different? Thoughts very welcome!

I'm pulling together a list of criteria for the various levels of software engineers. I know some are public. What are the public definitions that you like the most/feel are accurate with your experience?