AI ∩ Applications. Occasionally, sports, health.https://gkk.dev/enhttps://gkk.dev/posts/working-with-me/https://gkk.dev/posts/working-with-me/People often reach out to me for help or business conversations. Over time I’ve noticed a few recurring patterns that make it hard for me to respond well. This page is a quick reference for how to get the best out of an interaction with me.Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:41:21 GMTcommunicationproductivityentrepreneurshipworkculturehttps://gkk.dev/posts/imperial-mind-trap/https://gkk.dev/posts/imperial-mind-trap/Ever since Russia attacked Ukraine, I’ve been trying to decode a nagging feeling about how the invasion is discussed in the wider world.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:05:29 GMTpoliticssocietyhttps://gkk.dev/posts/the-rolling-hackathon/https://gkk.dev/posts/the-rolling-hackathon/Contrary to popular belief, Europe does not suffer from a capital shortage for funding technology startups. There’s ample early-stage money available—both in VC funds and angel networks.Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:13:32 GMTeuropeentrepreneurshipculturehttps://gkk.dev/posts/two-months-of-tesla-model-3-in-poland-range-anxiety-is-still-on/https://gkk.dev/posts/two-months-of-tesla-model-3-in-poland-range-anxiety-is-still-on/Tesla Model 3 is an awesome vehicle but is severely constrained to being a commuter car due to the lack of Superchargers.Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:14:42 GMTTeslaEVshttps://gkk.dev/posts/europe-overfund-the-ai-application-layer/https://gkk.dev/posts/europe-overfund-the-ai-application-layer/Europe should stop chasing “sovereign” LLMs and win by shipping vertical AI products where it already has distribution, domain depth or where the race is still at day one.Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:58:49 GMTeuropetech-policyaientrepreneurshipstartupsculturehttps://gkk.dev/posts/the-charismatic-prototype/https://gkk.dev/posts/the-charismatic-prototype/Most of AI applications and the teams behind them face the challenge of the charismatic prototype - a phrase Shyam Sankar (Palantir's CTO) tossed in his recent interview.Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:39:12 GMTAIproducthttps://gkk.dev/posts/problem-solving-vs-problem-picking/https://gkk.dev/posts/problem-solving-vs-problem-picking/I frequently participate in debates about why Poles playing an outsized role in building frontier AI in the US doesn’t translate into an AI boom in their home country.Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:20:47 GMTstartupsentrepreneurshipculturehttps://gkk.dev/posts/the-ai-minimum-viable-team/https://gkk.dev/posts/the-ai-minimum-viable-team/The AI startup boom cycle comes with a reset: we're back to solving hard technical problems just to get products off the ground.Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:23:08 GMTAIstartupsproducthttps://gkk.dev/posts/come-for-the-tool,-stay-for-the-network-still-relevant-in-2024/https://gkk.dev/posts/come-for-the-tool,-stay-for-the-network-still-relevant-in-2024/I've been chatting with my friend about the origins of LinkedIn, recruiting through its social network a few others things.Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:22:32 GMTstartupsnetworkshttps://gkk.dev/posts/direct-ai-access-is-the-'command-line'-moment-of-app-design/https://gkk.dev/posts/direct-ai-access-is-the-'command-line'-moment-of-app-design/I came to believe that exposing direct access to an LLM or other AI is often an equivalent of command line access to a computer, with similar pain points.Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:40:22 GMTAIUXhttps://gkk.dev/posts/2-4-years-too-early-ai-in-legal/https://gkk.dev/posts/2-4-years-too-early-ai-in-legal/I believe we're 2-4 years too early to apply AI in the legal space, and the bottleneck is not necessarily benchmark-measured LLM performance.Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:22:34 GMTAIproductlegalhttps://gkk.dev/posts/prompt-engineering-tricks-for-llms/https://gkk.dev/posts/prompt-engineering-tricks-for-llms/Most people overcomplicate prompt engineering. There are 100-page-long prompt cookbooks that can be distilled into a few techniques that have the highest leverage.Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:25:42 GMTLLMsAIsoftwarehttps://gkk.dev/posts/rag-without-embeddings-and-ai-infra-companies/https://gkk.dev/posts/rag-without-embeddings-and-ai-infra-companies/At Hotseat, we've hit a major milestone: the relevance of quotes from our PDF repository has jumped from 18% to 72%.Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:33:48 GMTAIinfraLLMshttps://gkk.dev/posts/the-anatomy-of-hotseats-ai/https://gkk.dev/posts/the-anatomy-of-hotseats-ai/Hotseat's anatomy - a few product design choices that take a raw and nascent technology of Large Language Models and turn it into a functional tool.Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:58:10 GMTsoftwareAImachine learninglawlegalhttps://gkk.dev/posts/high-caliber-answers-to-ai-refined-legal-questions/https://gkk.dev/posts/high-caliber-answers-to-ai-refined-legal-questions/I’ve been testing Hotseat - an AI-based Q&A for legal - with a small set of lawyers to see whether AI can produce high-caliber answers to legal questions.Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:10:02 GMTsoftwareAImachine learninglawlegalhttps://gkk.dev/posts/you-dont-want-to-work-with-embeddings/https://gkk.dev/posts/you-dont-want-to-work-with-embeddings/Embeddings are the assembly of the AI world. We should spare people touching them and climb the abstraction ladder as fast as possible. As we did in software.Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:12:50 GMTAILLMssoftwarehttps://gkk.dev/posts/the-openai-keynote-post/https://gkk.dev/posts/the-openai-keynote-post/The fate of GPT wrappers, increased experimentation, and AI developers.Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:01:46 GMTAIsoftwarehttps://gkk.dev/posts/announcing-hotseat-ai-legal/https://gkk.dev/posts/announcing-hotseat-ai-legal/I have yet to meet a lawyer who wishes they could spend more time at night solving a legal question.Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:10:28 GMTsoftwareAImachine learninglawlegalhttps://gkk.dev/posts/ai-boosted-development-upskilling/https://gkk.dev/posts/ai-boosted-development-upskilling/In the new AI-boosted world, what excites me the most is that it allows me to get upskilled in unfamiliar specializations and take on more ambitious projects.Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:27:22 GMTprogrammingAIfrontendhttps://gkk.dev/posts/escaping-gatsby-moving-11ty/https://gkk.dev/posts/escaping-gatsby-moving-11ty/A rite of passage exists that switching JS libraries or frameworks is a form of procrastination.Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:20:30 GMTsoftwarefrontendhttps://gkk.dev/posts/eu-ai-act-aigenerated-changelog/https://gkk.dev/posts/eu-ai-act-aigenerated-changelog/You're an assistant at a law firm. Please summarise the amendments from June 14, 2023, applied to the proposed EU AI Act.Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:20:39 GMTsoftwareAImachine learninglawhttps://gkk.dev/posts/generative-ai-driving-seat/https://gkk.dev/posts/generative-ai-driving-seat/We’re in another cycle of AI moral panic. [...] The social fabric, social order, and the truth are about to be leveled by a savage AI bulldozer.Tue, 23 May 2023 14:13:34 GMTsoftwareAImachine learninghttps://gkk.dev/posts/tap-tap-back-to-blogging/https://gkk.dev/posts/tap-tap-back-to-blogging/Testing if publishing on my personal blog still works.Mon, 22 May 2023 19:03:27 GMTpersonalhttps://gkk.dev/posts/bitcoin-software-plasticity/https://gkk.dev/posts/bitcoin-software-plasticity/I've mostly remained oblivious to the crypto movement to date. I didn't have a strong opinion on the tech in either bear or bull direction.Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:51:20 GMTcryptosoftwarehttps://gkk.dev/posts/which-way-do-you-run-part-one/https://gkk.dev/posts/which-way-do-you-run-part-one/Which Way Do You Run?, part one (aka part five)Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:56:12 GMTrecoverysports medicinehealthhttps://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part4/https://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part4/Sell it like you mean itMon, 28 Jun 2021 16:04:00 GMTrecoverysports medicinehealthhttps://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part3/https://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part3/Diagnosing the muscle's operating system.Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:00:00 GMTrecoverysports medicinehealthhttps://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part2/https://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part2/Pilgrimage to the (in?)famous chiropractorSat, 06 Feb 2021 23:00:00 GMTrecoverysports medicinehealthhttps://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part1/https://gkk.dev/posts/slim-shady-year-part1/Undoubtedly, my recovery from a rare and daunting condition is the best story I can tell.Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:13:40 GMThealthsports medicinerecoveryhttps://gkk.dev/posts/data-science-biology/https://gkk.dev/posts/data-science-biology/As a study of life's fundamentals, microscale biology is going through a paradigm shift. Data science is at the center of it.Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:47:24 GMTbiologydatasciencehttps://gkk.dev/posts/notes-great-influenza/https://gkk.dev/posts/notes-great-influenza/When COVID-19 struck, I picked up a book on one the most impactful pandemic in world's history to understand what we're to face in the coming months. I was trying to work out the mechanics of a pandemic, if you will.Mon, 17 Aug 2020 23:45:55 GMTpandemicscovid-19https://gkk.dev/posts/status-kentucky-mule-faster-scala-compiler/https://gkk.dev/posts/status-kentucky-mule-faster-scala-compiler/Occasionally, someone on the internet comes across Kentucky Mule and I receive an email asking its status.Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:57:11 GMTcompilersscalaperformancehttps://gkk.dev/posts/quickstart-molecular-biology/https://gkk.dev/posts/quickstart-molecular-biology/A crash course in molecular biology on 160 pages if you need one.Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:34:18 GMTbiologyhttps://gkk.dev/posts/covid-19-metric-we-need-to-track/https://gkk.dev/posts/covid-19-metric-we-need-to-track/Every multi-dimensional crisis requires tight feedback loops for effective assessment and management; COVID-19 is no exception.Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:02:04 GMTcovid-19https://gkk.dev/posts/what-i-know-about-covid-19/https://gkk.dev/posts/what-i-know-about-covid-19/Like many people, I’ve been glued to the news over COVID-19. In many ways a perfect distraction: it’s an endless source of news, there’s a lot of inherent uncertainty and drama and it’s full of numbers.Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:01:00 GMTcovid-19https://gkk.dev/posts/drug-repurposing-with-an-algorithm-covid-19/https://gkk.dev/posts/drug-repurposing-with-an-algorithm-covid-19/Programmers will recognize in drug repurposing a hack. A notably rewarding one.Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:40:21 GMTcovid-19machine learningprogramming languagesprecision medicinehttps://gkk.dev/posts/hello-world/https://gkk.dev/posts/hello-world/I'm experimenting with publishing blog posts here instead of on Medium.Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:12:31 GMTpersonallaunch