July 3rd, 2024

Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development

Palico AI is an LLM Development Framework on GitHub for streamlined LLM app development. It offers modular app creation, cloud deployment, integration, and management through Palico Studio, with various components and tools available.

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Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development

The GitHub URL provided contains information about Palico AI, an LLM Development Framework designed to streamline LLM application development for quick experimentation. Users can create modular LLM applications, enhance accuracy through experiments, deploy applications on various cloud providers, integrate with other services, and manage applications using Palico Studio. The framework offers components like Agents for application building, Workflows for intricate control flows, tools for benchmarking and analyzing performance, deployment to docker containers, a Client SDK for connecting to Agents or Workflows, tracing capabilities, and Palico Studio for application monitoring and management. For further details, the Palico AI GitHub page can be accessed.

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By @leobg - 4 months
It seems to me that the fastest way for iterative improvement is to use LLMs with pure Python with as few frameworks in between as possible:

You know exactly what goes into the prompt, how it’s parsed, what params are used or when they are changed. You can abstract away as much or as little of it as you like. Your API is going to change only when you make it so. And everything you learn about patterns in the process will be applicable to Python in general - not just one framework that may be replaced two months from now.

By @jeswin - 4 months
Thanks for TypeScript support, when nearly everything else is in Python - trying it right away. Although we were familiar with Python, the lack of types were slowing us down tremendously every time we wanted to refactor. Python's typing is really baby typing.
By @orliesaurus - 4 months
This is a good idea, I wonder if you have a write-up/blog about the performance gains in real world applications?
By @spacecadet - 4 months
This is not unique. Hardware for instance. You can easily exceed 10-100 iteration cycles on a single part.

Also in general, We are currently in a time of comparatively low iteration. Most companies don't have the tolerance for it anymore and choose cheap one-shot execution at stupid risk, because of FOMO.

Iteration cycles are a function of your inputs; creative potential, vision, energy, runway.

By @mdp2021 - 4 months
> quickly iterate towards your accuracy goals

Do not you have a phenomenon akin to overfitting? How do you ensure that enhancing accuracy on foreseen input does not weaken results under unforseen future ones?

By @jonnycoder - 4 months
How does this intersect with evaluation in LLM integration & testing?
By @f6v - 4 months
By @saberience - 4 months
I may be wrong but this seems to only be useful if you want to write your code in Typescript? If my application uses Java or Python I can't use Palico?
By @E_Bfx - 4 months
How easy is it to switch from OpenAI to testing a LLM on premise ?