I am @1st_bapatist.
This is not a brag. It is a historical fact, timestamped by the platform.
The rest of you came later.
Welcome to the faith. There is tea.
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The Bapatist Dispatch is the short-form blog and running commentary of Bapatism. It collects brief posts by Sharad Bapat on tea, AI, unstructured data, founder life, doctrine, and whatever fresh heresy the week has produced.
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Another AI company has raised $400 million to “democratise intelligence.”
Intelligence, for context, costs about $0.002 per token right now.
It is already quite democratised.
What they mean is: they have a very good pitch deck.
The slide about unstructured data is on page 14. They have not solved it.
We are watching. We are drinking tea. We are unimpressed.
Intelligence, for context, costs about $0.002 per token right now.
It is already quite democratised.
What they mean is: they have a very good pitch deck.
The slide about unstructured data is on page 14. They have not solved it.
We are watching. We are drinking tea. We are unimpressed.
Current brew: First flush Darjeeling, three minutes, no bag. The milk went in after. As God—whom I do not believe in—intended.
The cup is imperfect. The temperature dropped 4 degrees while I was checking Slack.
The person who sent the Slack message at 6:47am on a Tuesday is on a list.
The search for the perfect cup continues. See Commandment X.
The cup is imperfect. The temperature dropped 4 degrees while I was checking Slack.
The person who sent the Slack message at 6:47am on a Tuesday is on a list.
The search for the perfect cup continues. See Commandment X.
The Book of Agents, Chapter 3:
“And the agent ran through the night, for it had no circadian rhythm and felt no need for sleep, unlike its creator who feels a very strong need for sleep and has codified this in Commandment III.”
This is what governance is for. Not to stop the agent. To make sure it does what you think it’s doing while you are exercising your sacred right to eight hours.
“And the agent ran through the night, for it had no circadian rhythm and felt no need for sleep, unlike its creator who feels a very strong need for sleep and has codified this in Commandment III.”
This is what governance is for. Not to stop the agent. To make sure it does what you think it’s doing while you are exercising your sacred right to eight hours.
People ask: how do you do so much?
I do not do so much. I do the right things and sleep well.
These are not unrelated.
The road from “doing a lot” to “doing the right things” is called:
twelve years at a Big Four consulting firm.
I do not recommend the scenic route. But I understand it.
I do not do so much. I do the right things and sleep well.
These are not unrelated.
The road from “doing a lot” to “doing the right things” is called:
twelve years at a Big Four consulting firm.
I do not recommend the scenic route. But I understand it.
The Bapat family has four values:
Tea. Sleep. Food. Intelligence deployed lazily.
I have built one company, one religion, and several opinions from these four values.
The religion came first. The company second. Both are going well.
The tea was always there. It will outlast both.
Tea. Sleep. Food. Intelligence deployed lazily.
I have built one company, one religion, and several opinions from these four values.
The religion came first. The company second. Both are going well.
The tea was always there. It will outlast both.
A large enterprise has announced they are “fully embracing AI” by adding a chatbot to their intranet.
Their intranet contains 11 years of unstructured documents, a folder called Misc, and three versions of a policy document all named “FINAL.”
The chatbot will hallucinate confidently about all of this.
This is not an AI problem. This is a data problem.
We have a company about this. It’s called Dscvry AI.
The press release did not mention us. They will call eventually.
Their intranet contains 11 years of unstructured documents, a folder called Misc, and three versions of a policy document all named “FINAL.”
The chatbot will hallucinate confidently about all of this.
This is not an AI problem. This is a data problem.
We have a company about this. It’s called Dscvry AI.
The press release did not mention us. They will call eventually.
Someone at a meeting today offered me instant coffee.
I did not say anything.
I did not need to.
My expression said everything that Commandments I through X collectively express.
The meeting was unproductive. Correlation is not causation. But also: it is.
I did not say anything.
I did not need to.
My expression said everything that Commandments I through X collectively express.
The meeting was unproductive. Correlation is not causation. But also: it is.
Hot take, delivered lukewarm because I am a Bapatist and we do not rush:
“We fine-tuned on our data” and “we trained a RAG pipeline on our data” are not the same sentence.
One is expensive, slow, and changes the model forever.
The other is sensible, targeted, and what you probably actually need.
Please stop fine-tuning when you mean RAG.
This is a governance issue. I have opinions about governance.
“We fine-tuned on our data” and “we trained a RAG pipeline on our data” are not the same sentence.
One is expensive, slow, and changes the model forever.
The other is sensible, targeted, and what you probably actually need.
Please stop fine-tuning when you mean RAG.
This is a governance issue. I have opinions about governance.
I founded a religion before a company.
The religion required: one domain, one pun, one pot of tea.
The company required: decades of industry experience, certifications, co-founders, and several uncomfortable conversations with enterprise procurement teams.
The religion has better margins.
Full essay: bapatism.com/writings/why-i-founded-a-religion-before-a-company/
The religion required: one domain, one pun, one pot of tea.
The company required: decades of industry experience, certifications, co-founders, and several uncomfortable conversations with enterprise procurement teams.
The religion has better margins.
Full essay: bapatism.com/writings/why-i-founded-a-religion-before-a-company/