So much recently I've seen companies obsessing over fine tuning. Should you fine tune your language models? Nicolay from AISBACH Data Solutions joins me this week as we talk through the many challenges that come when you fine tune language models. He's spent the last several years working with customers to get the most out of their LLM's and has some insights to share.

You wouldn't hire a network engineer to build your front end would you? Then why hire just any software engineer for search?! In this episode we talk with Brian Pedersen founder of TheSearchBar.ai to talk a bit more about the challenges of hiring search engineers. There tends to be a big disconnect between companies that want to hire search engineers and engineers that are looking for companies that value their skills. Thankfully Brian is here to help give some advice so that everyone can...

Elasticsearch is open source again? Maybe? Join Nick (@skeptrune) and I as we discuss what Elasticsearchs new license means for its users. Along with this we take a dive into Trieve (trieve.ai) a source available framework for building search and RAG workflows. How better to test a new product than rebuilding search for Hacker News?!

We talk with Philippe from ParadeDB about search on Postgres. Historically search on Postgres has been really bad but it doesn't have to be anymore. Let's go into a bit of the why search on Postgres is the way it is. This will help us understand why it got to where it is and how ParadeDB is making it better. Session Notes: Why ParadeDB picked AGPL for their LicensePutting DuckDB into Postgres