Alignment is Real // Shiva Bhattacharjee // #260

Shiva Bhattacharjee is the Co-founder and CTO of TrueLaw, where we are building bespoke models for law firms for a wide variety of tasks. Alignment is Real // MLOps Podcast #260 with Shiva Bhattacharjee, CTO of TrueLaw Inc. // Abstract If the off-the-shelf model can understand and solve a domain-specific task well enough, either your task isn't that nuanced or you have achieved AGI. We discuss when is fine-tuning necessary over prompting and how we have created a loop of sampling - collecting feedback - fine-tuning to create models that seem to perform exceedingly well in domain-specific tasks. // Bio 20 years of experience in distributed and data-intensive systems spanning work at Apple, Arista Networks, Databricks, and Confluent. Currently CTO at TrueLaw where we provide a framework to fold in user feedback, such as lawyer critiques of a given task, and fold them into proprietary LLM models through fine-tuning mechanics, resulting in 7-10x improvements over the base model. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links Website: www.truelaw.ai --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Shiva on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivabhattacharjee/ Timestamps: [00:00] Shiva's preferred coffee [00:58] Takeaways [01:17] DSPy Implementation [04:57] Evaluating DSPy risks [08:13] Community-driven DSPy tool [12:19] RAG implementation strategies [17:02] Cost-effective embedding fine-tuning [18:51] AI infrastructure decision-making [24:13] Prompt data flow evolution [26:32] Buy vs build decision [30:45] Tech stack insights [38:20] Wrap up