Eugene Yan's 2024 annual review covers professional and personal milestones. On the work side, he productionized ML/LLM systems at scale, co-authored 'What We've Learned From a Year of Building with LLMs' (published by O'Reilly), and built two public projects: Tara (an AI voice coach) and AlignEval (an LLM evaluation tool). He spoke at Netflix's internal RecSys conference and delivered a closing keynote at the AI Engineer World's Fair. On the personal side, he improved diet and exercise habits, traveled to Alaska for the Northern Lights, and saw his website grow to 285k unique visitors despite a 27% drop in Google Search traffic.
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Reviewing my 2024 goalsBuilding AI Coach & AlignEvalDoubling Down on HealthStatistics for 2024Goals for 20251 Impression