This summer, we brought in two first-year Waterloo interns (‘rising sophomores’ in 🇺🇸) and tasked them with shipping complex production features that help push the frontier of our document processing and extraction capabilities. Yash created a dashboard that allowed customers to better understand the distribution of documents flowing through the system - and gives us anonymized metrics that we can use to improve our own capabilities. Jishnu helped to do deep research into grounded confidence scores for all of our document extraction capabilities. These scores are a lot more calibrated to real uncertainty about any value being extracted compared to our earlier implementation, allowing customers to trigger HITL in the right places within their document workflow. More on this coming soon 🙂 Outside of work, I have fond memories of watching the Knicks final game 4 with them (the one where the Knicks came back down 29 points). We’ve historically brought on full-time engineers with a bit more experience, but Yash and Jishnu ramped up extremely quickly and exemplified the high-agency, high-energy scrappiness that we look for in anyone joining the @llama_index team. They weren’t old enough to drink but old enough to ship production code 😂. We’re so happy they spent time with us so early in their careers, and wish them the best with the next 4 years of school. If you’re young but cracked, we’d love to chat. We’re hiring across *a lot* of roles across product/engineering/research (as well as growth and GTM). Careers page: