Varun Godbole's Newsletter
Varun GodboleA collection of essays, book reviews, book chapters, etc. to understand how individuals and companies can become more AI-first.
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How can I wield an LLM to create real value within complex domains?
I quit my job working on Gemini in late 2024 to pursue the deeper tendrils of this question. I spent a decade doing deep learning research at Google, and worked on LLMs for code generation before they were cool.
I’ve since talked to and ad...
How can my lifestyle business survive AI?
I briefly contemplated starting a lifestyle business after I quit my job at DeepMind in 2024. I’d spent years on the core Gemini team, and wanted to break free from The Man. Yet because I’d spent years teaching LLMs to generate code, I coul...
Why do coding agents make solopreneurs more overwhelmed?
Disclaimer: This case study is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual people, companies or products is coincidental.
Rohan runs SpeedLaunch, a lifestyle business that brings in ~$1M/year by selling an opinionated SaaS launch k...
How can therapy actually transform my life?
Nothing in this essay constitutes medical or mental health advice. This is a story about what worked for me, not a protocol you should copy instead of working with a licensed clinician. I hope it creates value for you, but I'm not qualified...
The Assumption Gap - Update
I wrote this post last year describing how we can give LLMs a system instruction to ask them to generate implicit assumptions, that makes it easier to steer them. Or to tune prompts more generally.
I wanted to publish a mini-post with an u...
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ex-Google DeepMind. 10 yrs on deep learning, most recently Gemini. The goal is to practice my writing/thinking/exploration. Opinions here != my beliefs. Expect evolving views.
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