Ian Massingham

Ian Massingham

@ianm.ai

Devrel, Community, Startups. Devrel, Product Marketing & more at Griptape.ai. Formerly AWS & MongoDB. 🖤. Skier. Kettlebell aficionado. Spaceships. (he/him). My ideas & views. https://www.linkedin.com/in/imassingham/

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Ian Massingham
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I'll try to be more active on here. Going to have to mute a few doomers though. They are not good for my 🧠. Expect spaceships and puppy content

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In this video, Ian from Griptape walks through how to build a custom Color Matching node for Griptape Nodes using an AI coding assistant. The demo uses Cursor, but the same approach works with any modern AI coding tool. Watch video here: youtu.be/0y0kUZxM_ks

youtu.beCustom Node Development with AI Assisted ToolsIn this video, Ian from Griptape walks through how to build a custom Color Matching node for Griptape Nodes using an AI coding assistant. The demo uses Cursor, but the same approach works with any…
Ian Massingham
@ianm.ai

Mechanical 🤖 keyboard ⌨️ enthusiasts & manufacturers have built one of the deepest & most complicated rabbit 🐰 holes 🕳️ on the internet 😂

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My latest blog is out, covering the Griptape Framework 1.5 update. In this post, I experiment with relatedness calculations for image embeddings generated with Amazon's Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1 model, and get some good results. Check out the post here: www.griptape.ai/blog/announc...

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Turns out I will be in San Francisco for the the AI Dev 25 Conference on Friday this week & at the AWS Gen AI Loft the day before on Thursday. If you're around, and want to meet up, ping me!

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I don't do much work in JavaScript, but here is something that I built (with help from Emily in Griptape engineering) - github.com/griptape-ai/.... This sample Chrome extension shows how to integrate with the Griptape Cloud API to provide Generative AI features in browser apps & Node.js apps.

github.comGitHub - griptape-ai/griptape-chrome-extension: A sample implementation of a Chrome Extension that integrates with Griptape Cloud. Generate quizzes and ask questions directly from webpages.A sample implementation of a Chrome Extension that integrates with Griptape Cloud. Generate quizzes and ask questions directly from webpages. - griptape-ai/griptape-chrome-extension
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Just got accepted for my first conference talk in quite a few years. DevTalks www.devtalks.ro Romania 🇷🇴 here I come. I was last there in 2107! It was fun & I am excited to be heading back. I really like Romania & I hope Romania will like "What's Hard About Developing Applications Powered by LLMs?" 😀

devtalks.roThe Major Tech Conference in RomaniaThe largest expo conference for software developers and IT professionals in Romania, gathering over 8000 participants from all over the world.
Ian Massingham
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11 years and couple of weeks since I was here and in this building for my AWS New Hire training. Seattle has changed so much, and not for then better sadly🙁

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Confession: I've always struggled with using threads. Github Copilot ( and similar tools ) are really helpful in helping 'intermittent' developers (like me) use powerful concepts like this. Follow this thread for what I did..

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With this prompt 'create a python function that takes a list and processes each list item in a different thread', the follow up 'make the items tuples, so the input would be a list of tuples', and 'how do I access the items in a tuple'. I was able to solve the problem in a matter of minutes.

Ian Massingham
@ianm.ai

Confession: I've always struggled with using threads. Github Copilot ( and similar tools ) are really helpful in helping 'intermittent' developers (like me) use powerful concepts like this. Follow this thread for what I did..

Ian Massingham
@ianm.ai

I wanted to process a list containing items in parallel in different threads. The items were files that I wanted to upsert into namespaces in a vector store for a retrieval augmented generation application.

Ian Massingham
@ianm.ai

The upsert process needs an embedding operation, which is a call to the API for OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small model. This latency on this API call makes this a good candidate for threading.

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@ianm.ai

For those of you that didn't know, I started a new role with LLM application development framework & cloud startup Griptape back in December. Here is my first piece of work in that new role 💥 'What's New in Griptape Framework v1.1?' www.griptape.ai/blog/whats-n.... I would love your feedback 🙏

griptape.aiGriptape | What's New in Griptape Framework v1.1?Version 1.1 of the Griptape Framework introduces new features that make it even easier for developers to create LLM-powered applications.
Ian Massingham
@ianm.ai

At the top of Chimney Bank, above Rosedale in the North York Moors. Named for the Victorian era ironstone smelting chimney that used to be here. That was demolished in 1972, but the ruins of the smelters still remain. ❄️

Ian Massingham
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I'm out at the AWS GenAI & Data Day in Manchester, doing some research on GenAI use-cases and the challenges that organizations have in building GenAI apps 🚀

Ian Massingham
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Did something happen with Bluesky? Masses (relatively) of new followers over the last couple of days. Hello new followers! How did you find me?

Ian Massingham
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I was today years old when I realized you can be in multiple Google Meet calls at once. Follow me for more life changing productivity hacks.

Ian Massingham
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‘I saw you present on KMS at an Amazon event in 2014 in Dublin 🇨🇮. I thought you were a sales guy, but someone asked a hard technical question and you answered it, so you did know what you were talking about after all’ 😂 Best feedback ever. From someone with a good memory 👍