Diving into "Can LLMs Lie?" and "Poison Attacks on LLMs" - two really interesting papers that just came out, exploring vulnerabilities and risks in how models can be trained or corupted with malicious intent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlN...

Follow along to create a custom agent with Elastic Agent Builder. Next demo: How to create custom tools

After announcing the @elastic.co Agent Builder on our YouTube and dev (@elastic-dev.bsky.social) channels, I played around with it some more to build a #SpotifyWrapped generator based on a previous blog I wrote! I build my own ES|QL tool and musical agent 🎵

Just when I finally used up months worth of #audible credits to get all the #HarryPotterAudiobooks, they announce the new full-cast ones are coming out soon 😭 It was hard enough to pick between Stephen Fry and Jim Dale

Gone from filming in every random corner of my student apartments to finally having a fixed "studio" for my videos. Only took 6 years since the first #youtube video 😅

Introducing Elastic Agent Builder, designed to give your agents the best context and tools. Build precise agents fast, connect all your data where it already lives in Elasticsearch, and create custom tools for any use case. Learn more: www.elastic.co/search-labs/...

Is generating fake videos the best AI has to offer? Are we using too much inference power with little to show for it? Is the slop making too much noise to appreciate real AI value anymore? Some thoughts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgPT...

A 300h Civ Six girly just bought Europa Universalis, Anno 1800 and Old World in the 90% off autumn steam sale. Wish me luck, won’t resurface for a few days.

If you're in Amsterdam next week - we're hosting another meetup at our @elastic.co office! I'll be giving a talk on "Embeddings - LLMs - vector / semantic search - GenAI - RAG - agents - MCP" (aka acronym and buzzword bingo). See you there! www.meetup.com/elastic-nl/e...

@pydata.bsky.social Amsterdam was really fun last week! (selfishly, I also love stocking up on all the @numfocus.bsky.social stickers whenever possible - always a highlight! )

We’re at @pydata.bsky.social #Amsterdam today with @elastic.co. Come by our booth if you wanna chat about AI in search or observability and otel 😉. Or just for some cool stickers and socks 🧦

I've been releasing loads of new content on our @elastic.co YouTube community channel. Covered #LLMs, #RAG, #agents, #MCP, and the latest on #contextengineering. Yes, I'm basically playing buzzwords bingo / catch 'em all. And yes, I've also mastered "YouTube thumbnail posing". #hatethegame

I am sooooo beyond excited to keynote #PyCon Sweden this year!! This is a truly special event with a lovely community in a wonderful city. I am so proud to come back in this role and I hope the talk will be useful or at least interesting to the pythonistas joining ;) See you on halloween!! pycon.se

#CDN Romania thank you for an amazing conference experience! Great crowd and discussions, amazing speakers, lovely organisers, good location and food <3 I was so happy my talk about building @elastic.co analytics dashboards from your data (like an accurate DYI Spotify Wrapped!) was well received!

For this last episode of #DailyElasticByte about #OTel, @iuliaferoli.com will explain how to run anomaly detection after having collected all the signals we saw over the last 3 weeks. Join her in 2 minutes at

The only way we can get great results out of LLMs is if you perfect prompt engineering / figure out how to be as explicit and precise as possible about your requirements and how the code should perform. Sooo is the AI revolution going to actually make people write good documentation and wikis?? 😅😅

It turns out #PHP is as far away from my familiar safety blanket of #Python as you can get 😅. I am tracking and notes & journey so far (probably soon to be a blog) My "WTH is that" list so far: npm, vue, bun, brew, blade, react, mix, vite, herd, inertia, sail, tailwind, nginx.

Second day at #laracon EU and I have to say, the community here is so lovely and exciting that it made me want to attempt to learn PHP! And that's something since in all my years of programming so far I never once got tempted to touch #javascript. I'll call that a big #laravel win!

Quick dinner in the uni campus canteen: on one hand - awesome healthy cheap food. However - you have to listen to someone loudly ponder if nietzsche’s philosophy is compatible with the values of Christianity; and mansplain the moral of the great Gatsby all within 30 seconds. Gen Z be wildin

Talk about dramatic rockstar entrances 🤩🤩☄️☄️🎇🎇🎇 Laracon knows how to make an impression 🙌🏼🙌🏼

At #laracon EU today in Amsterdam with our elastic booth. Come say hi if you’re around! Seeing a lot of great use cases especially with our open telemetry integrations for monitoring and observably w/ the laravel ecosystem

Had to turn this into a blog write-up - using Elasticsearch to dive into my Oura sleep data and generate my sleep score in just a few lines!

Today I dove into my activity tracker data; specifically, the sleep score that Oura calculates daily. The intuition/assumption about it is pretty simple - more deep sleep and lower heart rate correlate with better scores. Is it that simple? Let's take a look in a quick data science experiment

Seems like a good time to be in open source all of a sudden 😅

Building my own Wrapped from my Spotify data with elasticsearch and kibana! I am told my top artists list is quite a weird mix 😅 I just call it beautiful, diverse data 😜

New year new project. I've been seeing lots of comments about the ~accuracy~ of spotify wrapped at the end of 2024 - so I've decided to build my own with #elasticsearch It's actually super easy to put together and you can do way more drilling into your trends/taste over time <3 Blog coming soon!

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are available now #RaspberryPi #RPi #Linux

In the approaching spirit of starting hobbies as New Year’s resolutions I’m really getting into this MIT open course in finance. (Recorded pretty much the week of the 2008 crash! What a fascinating time capsule.) It’s like the content spectrum opposite of TikTok get rich quick schemes.

The home of the Python community is wherever people fight over Python packaging ;)

Let's keep it positive. First dig into "starter pack" since I think it's such a cool feature on bsky! These are some of the most positive posts about it so far. Curious to get some aggregations on most popular starter pack topics 💭🤔

Tried to run a negative sentiment search matching "AI" on the bsky posts dataset to analyze how people feel about it, maybe gather some insights. Main insight: it's time to install some kind of profanity filter 😅

Started playing with huggingface and elasticsearch and I found this really cool dataset of 2M bluesky posts. I can now *factually* confirm that a lot of people just use bluesky to talk about twitter 😅 Starting to look into the sentiment of these posts next. I'll share any interesting insights 😉

I always wish there would be more diversity in open source contributions. I enjoy contributing to open source and I would love to share this joy with other #PyLadies Come join us at the mentored sprint at #PyLadiesCon - no prior experience is required: conference.pyladies.com/about/sprints/

Working on the new conference session for the coming tech events cycle. Working titles so far: “We have genAI at home” “Taking the large out of LLMs” “Is it genAI or just a reasonable ML use case?” “GenAI: hitting a nail with a rocket ship” Can you guess where I’m going with this 😅

If this doesn’t fully embody the spirit of “devs will just find a way to make it work” DYI vibes, I don’t know what does 😂 This is my 4k vlogging camera we duct taped to a wall. Aka our top of the line conference recording system. You can always find a way. 🎥🩵

Elastic founder Shay Banon and Search general manager Steve Kearns running the “ask me anything” at #elasticon

Why do weather apps not show “previous day’s temperature”?? I need to know how many degrees that was yesterday to properly understand what today’s forecast will feel like 😭

Three of us from the Elastic #devreal team in one country at the same time almost never happens! 😍😍 so excited to have @pilato.fr and Adrienne in Amsterdam

@pilato.fr kicking off our Amsterdam Meetup with an overview of latest 8.16 features. From BBQ, chunking options, and uploading pdfs for automated semantic search to AI assistants and smarter log analytics 😉

I'm working on the finishing touch of the talk I'll be giving tomorrow with Coen Baars at the #elasticon Amsterdam event about re-ranking techniques. Looking forward to it!

Calm before the storm. Talk about an amazing venue 😍 Everything is getting set up for #elasticon tomorrow in one of the most iconic Amsterdam location - the old stock exchange Beurs van Berlage. See you soon! #elastic #elasticsearch #search

We still have a few spots for the #Elastic Meetup tonight! We'll be hearing from our GM of Search about our vector search secret sauce; as well as customer stories from Kaufland and Devoteam on multilanguage marketplace solutions, observability at scale, devops, and more - see you tonight!

#elastic is taking over Amsterdam this week! Our biggest #elasticon event in EMEA is kicking off tomorrow at Beurs van Berlage and tonight we’re hosting a meetup at our office in the center 🫎🩵🔎 Hope to see a lot of you this week!

Someone asked the other day what "developer advocate" even means. Ofc we usually explain it as a technical person who builds content, goes to events, and interacts with the dev community more...but tell me why my gen Z brain's first instinct was to call it "certified professional yapper" #rebrand?

A shard is a #lucene instance that runs on a node, that's part of a cluster, and is replicated for fault tolerance. If that didn't make 100% sense - we now have a 10 minute video explaining #elastic infrastructure. (it's basically a super efficient library with librarians on roller skates?)

No matter how many fancy toys we get her it will never live up to her one true love - our old broom.

Wearing the "helper node" volunteer tshirt on the new episode of #elasticsearch101 about Node Architecture in Elastic is tickling my brain the right way 🧠🔎. And yes, I also have the exact logo shades of candles in there too. There's no such thing as doing too much 😅

Our #elastic community is growing on bsky 🫎🔎 💙🩵🩷💚💛

Rate my attic “studio” for the #elasticsearch series. Took a lot of tuning to get the lights juuuust right. Not pictured: my sewing desk and drying laundry stuffed around the corner 😂 #youtube #tech #vlog #videoseries #recording #setup

The fact that Bluesky, and not Mastodon, is becoming the alternative to Twitter is a testament to everything that’s wrong with the spirit of open source. Awesome engineering and collaboration efforts, so often hampered by dogmatic unwillingness to accommodate user experience. PS: I love Mastodon.