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Saeed Esmaili

@saeedesmaili.com

Data Scientist at Spotify Interested in AI, LLM, Python. Blog: https://saeedesmaili.com

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Oh noooo, the company that extracted our data for their models is having others extracting data for their models

23.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 504 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 18

Yeah my personal experience using claude code on many projects confirms that! Also makes yhe outcome predictable, leads to fewer frustrations as I like to review the outputs.

24.02.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone in my following here that can invite me to lobste.rs?

24.02.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New blog post:
Taming Claude Code: Taking Back Control
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18.02.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The more I have AI agents write all my code, the more I feel that us devs will be alright (and possibly more in-demand for important stuff)

Hard for me to imagine anyone building *reliable* software without an understanding of how to do this (either via experience or study)

22.01.2026 09:49 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 3

Ah ok found it on your profile!

24.01.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey
Did you move it to another url? It's nit accessible anymore (found it today on my rss feed from someone mentioning it in their blog post).

24.01.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There's no mentif Android on the blog post, any plans for Android?

30.11.2025 08:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.)

Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day

04.09.2025 06:40 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4

Is this rate limiting by IP or path? πŸ€” You also mention '/content/*' somewhere in the post which I think you meant '/search/*'

04.07.2025 05:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky, unlike X, doesn’t punish posts with links. Which means there is no good reason (and frankly no good excuse) for posts with screengrabs of articles that don’t link to them.

It’s bad for readers and bad for the writers whose work you’re using. Posting text? Link to where you got it.

03.06.2025 06:23 πŸ‘ 338 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6

It would be nice to have this on the original blog post as well.

26.04.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Building a Content Recommendation System for Myself, Part One
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16.03.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds nice. It doesn't include my blog, even when I filter on July 2023, when I had a post of the first page of the hackernews:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3661...

15.03.2025 07:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing the notes. I was also curious about the hosted version's pricing but couldn't find anything online. I hoped your notes would have some info :(

13.03.2025 06:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Will you share the video recording of the session as well?

11.03.2025 06:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Klarna was the company that went all-on replacing customer support with an AI bot and went on to brag about the cost savings.

Now they are reversing course.

Easy to see more companies blindly replacing quality customer support with a worse AI implementation will follow...

19.02.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10

I am begging you: if you are writing a thread of more than a couple posts, get a blog. I don’t mean this in a mean way. I mean: allow this thought to continue to exist, outside of this platform, in an actually coherent, readable format that sticks around for longer than 20 minutes. You deserve it!

31.01.2025 00:43 πŸ‘ 623 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 17

Congrats!

23.12.2024 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Rohit!

23.12.2024 06:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ten Favorite Photos I Captured in 2024 I purchased a Sony a7ii in 2023, while having zero understanding of the basics of cameras and photography. I recall being particularly confused about the exposure triangle , especially how aperture af...

This post is a reflection on my photography work in 2024, featuring my top ten photos and a short story for each. I’d love to hear which of these photos resonates with you and why.

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22.12.2024 15:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training A few months ago I used streamlit to build a simple UI, so I can collect manually labeled data for a LLM fine-tuning task at work. Streamlit is fine, but the full process of creating a nice UI with re...

TIL: Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training

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19.12.2024 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TIL: Quickly Filter and Aggregate Python Lists

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19.12.2024 20:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability I’ve been using sentry for automatically logging the errors and exceptions of my python projects. A few months ago I needed to log some information if a specific condition is true in my side project’s...

TIL: Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability
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19.12.2024 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd like to try if one is still available

29.11.2024 08:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0