That time I redid the same work six times
A lesson on the evils of duplication and how not to build the next unicorn
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10 min readMar 25, 2024
Long before the glory days of OpenAI, I was part of the founding team of an ambitious natural-language processing project. The plan was to collect billions of online customer reviews, run them through an in-house aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) engine, and…