Automate Pinecone Daily Upsert Task with Celery and Slack monitoring
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It’s been a while since my last LLM post and I’m excited to share that my prototype has been successfully productionized as Outside’s first LLM-powered chatbot, Scout. If you are an Outside+ member, you can check it out over at https://scout.outsideonline.com/.
This journey began as my weekend curiosity project back in March 2023. I had the idea to build a Q&A chatbot using OpenAI’s LLMs and Outside’s content as a knowledge base. Later I shared my prototype at our internal product demo day and I was thrilled by the interest it managed to spark. Scout quickly became an official project. On November 28th 2023, we launched Scout to limited Outside+ members. Fast forward to today, April 12th, 2024, over 28.3k unique users have already utilized this Outdoor Companion AI tool.
I couldn’t be more grateful for this moonstruck experience and I’ve been planning to write a mini-series to share some behind-the-scenes insights into what it takes to bring LLM & RAG powered apps to life. So far I’ve planned to cover the following three parts:
- 🦦 Part 1: Automate Pinecone Daily Upserts with Celery and Slack monitoring
- 🦦 Part 2: Building an LLM Websocket…