Driving Home and gptel

Happy April 2nd! Drove back home, with CEO, so everything is right with the world. I actually watched the Aus F1 race today. Some numbers from the race that stuck out to me: two red flags leading to three starts, there were eight DNF’s, zero points for Ferrari, and Aston Martin placed third and fourth. The four DRS zones kept throwing cars into overtakes, making it one wild ride.

I configured gptel using my OpenAI plus account – Emacs is where work happens, so let’s introduce them. I wonder how it GPT-4 does writing elisp… of course, the answer is easy to find on the web. @daviwil gives a good run-through of its Emacs-related capabilities on a System Crafters stream.

On a related note, some aggressive OpenAI API usage where I tried to index all of my emails in LangChain led to a $38 charge. I can take the hit to the wallet, but def a surprise I’d like to avoid in the future. In the meantime, the real hit is getting rate limited and not being able to use OpenAI for LangChain / gptel. update: added billing info to developer dashboard. now they get my money.

Getting hit with the cost made me realize is pricey to calculate embeddings for large volumes of documents using OpenAI, pushing me towards self-hosting. The price will come down, but the trick is to build something in the clinical space now. I’ll hack on some of these problems for Regard tomorrow, calendar looks clear enough to go heads down.