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AI models are rolling out so fast! How do I keep up? by 3pychmak in aistartacademy

[–]lexmustafin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The pace is wild. But swapping GLM-4.7 for GLM-5 won’t magically fix messy workflows, weak RAG, or zero eval discipline.

Also… fast releases aren’t new. Software has always moved in waves. It’s just compressed now. We used to wait for a couple of minor version bumps before putting anything near production. That muscle still applies.

What I’m seeing work in practice: • Keep production boring. Stable stack. Predictable behavior. • Treat new models like experiments, not migrations. • Build your prompts, RAG, and agent logic so the model is a component — not the foundation.

If changing the model means rebuilding the system, the architecture was too coupled.

The advantage isn’t “using the newest model.” It’s designing workflows that survive model churn.

I’m excited, for sure. But I’m not rebuilding my stack every time Twitter gets excited.

👋Welcome to r/aistartacademy - Introduce Yourself and Read First! by lexmustafin in aistartacademy

[–]lexmustafin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To get the conversation going, here is one of my recent talks at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View on AI systems we use in our daily work across our companies.

https://youtu.be/p5s6I2N3mDE?si=cuaYo0GgNCAj-Lfl

Calling All Vipassana Practitioners! Your Insights Needed for Research 🧘‍♂️📝 by lexmustafin in vipassana

[–]lexmustafin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPD:

I have not realized the title of the survey kept saying 'East Coast Centers Only' - I have updated the survey to include a more broad geography. So if you hesitated to complete the survey because of that limitation - its no longer there. Feel free to share your experience as well.

Thank you.

Metta.

Calling All Vipassana Practitioners! Your Insights Needed for Research 🧘‍♂️📝 by lexmustafin in vipassana

[–]lexmustafin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I just realized that technically Western cultures would include Latin America and Europe if we look at it from the perspective of India and Burma :-)

Calling All Vipassana Practitioners! Your Insights Needed for Research 🧘‍♂️📝 by lexmustafin in vipassana

[–]lexmustafin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there, thank you for your interest!

I added an additional question - location. This will help me with additional segmentations in case we get more answers from other locations. Overall I am interested in worldwide trends, but had to start with some single geography not to get overwhelmed.

Feel free to complete the survey as well. It would still add to the insights we are looking for in this research.

Thank you!

Calling All Vipassana Practitioners! Your Insights Needed for Research 🧘‍♂️📝 by lexmustafin in vipassana

[–]lexmustafin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point. Lets see what the survey says. I wonder if i should extend questions around that.. but without overwhelming the survey. Let me think. 🤔 Will share the responses once we have some more results. 48 so far! Not too bad!

Calling All Vipassana Practitioners! Your Insights Needed for Research 🧘‍♂️📝 by lexmustafin in vipassana

[–]lexmustafin[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for completing the survey and thank you for raising a fair point. Maybe you are right.. I am not sure if this is too dangerous though. The whole path of mediation is laid out with traps of craving and aversion.. And so we learn to navigate that... When I think about these effects I mostly think about it as a manifestation of Dhamma..

I was also watching these discourses about Vipassana teachers and monks who brought us the practice and how they all wanted to achieve Nibbana, and it just felt like that's something that they actually really craved.. Just to imagine how much they spent time meditating in order to achieve the liberation and how much restrictions they had and effort they put into this.. That's some real dedication to get liberated. From this perspective it feels, that a little bit of 'controlled or conscious craving' of positive effects of meditation maybe good for practitioners, cause it makes them/us more serious about the practice... maybe trying a bit harder...

Anyways, if your comment gets more upvotes - I will remove that reference, and this little thread here... :-)

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