Building with AI: Rahul Sonwalkar on Julius
Links and Chapters below:
Rahul on X (Twitter) - https://x.com/0interestrates
Julius - https://julius.ai/
0:30 - intro
1:37 - get llms to write code
4:56 - tool-use in practice
8:20 - concepting a LLM calendar app
11:09 - building julius
15:32 - on GPT wrappers
19:08 - building things users want
19:55 - how to hack tool use
23:14 - data cleaning as a tool example
26:10 - using telemetry to improve julius
27:37 - monitoring julius: vibes & beyond
29:26 - why you dont need evals (to get started )
30:50 - when evals matter
32:36 - time to magical moment
36:00 - temperature and determinism
37:06 - detecting failure
39:00 - getting user feedback
40:36 - using small models
41:56 - native ai engineering
44:03 - most surprising thing building
46:49 - play with it, experiment
48:07 - lessons learned building julius
54:40 - bottleneck as human imagination