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[ SF Open Source AI Week ]
 
With Daniel Svonava (Founder Superlinked).
Oct 20 (Tue) @ 05:00 PM       FREE
Venue, To Be Announced, SF

 
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Most agents send every decision to the slowest, most expensive brain in the stack. Is this ticket about billing? Is this prompt trying to hijack the agent? Each of those has a handful of possible answers, & a frontier LLM answers it by writing prose about it.
Kahneman split thinking into System 1 (fast, automatic, cheap) & System 2 (slow, deliberate, expensive). Agent stacks now have the same split: small decision models that answer in milliseconds with a calibrated probability, & LLMs that plan & reason. This evening is about choosing between them when fast is good enough, when you need slow, & how to build the handoff.
Who Should Come
AI engineers building with or choosing between System 1 & System 2 models. Maybe youre trying a hosted decision API, running GLiClass or GLiNER yourself, or still sending every yes/no to an LLM & watching the bill. Platform & infra folks serving these models are welcome too.
What to Expect:
5:00pm - 5:30pm - Networking
5:30pm - 6:30pm - Talks + PanelThinking fas or slow, demystified (Rahul Parundekar). A working framework for when to use which model. Comparison with 2019-era zero shot ML models, vs structured output/JSON-mode, latency, cost, accuracy & calibration tradeoffs, & the limitations: confidence vs accuracy, black-box nature, etc.
Inside the fast models (Daniel Svonava, founder Superlinked). How encoder decision models (GLiClass, GLiNER, Laya) answer every option in one forward pass, where zero-shot breaks, & what changes when you tune on your own labels.
6:30pm - 7:30pm: Beer Outside At Fieldworks
Food, drinks, & engineers comparing notes.
NOTE: We're trying to put together a great event & location & agenda is subject to change.
 
 
 
 
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