Automate Pinecone Every day Upsert Task with Celery and Slack monitoring
It’s been some time 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. For those who are an Outside+ member, you possibly can test it out over at https://scout.outsideonline.com/.
This journey began as my weekend curiosity project back in March 2023. I had the concept to construct 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 used to be thrilled by the interest it managed to spark. Scout quickly became an official project. On November twenty eighth 2023, we launched Scout to limited Outside+ members. Fast forward to today, April twelfth, 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 down a mini-series to share some behind-the-scenes insights into what it takes to bring LLM & RAG powered apps to life. To date I’ve planned to cover the next three parts:
- 🦦 Part 1: Automate Pinecone Every day Upserts with Celery and Slack monitoring
- 🦦 Part 2: Constructing an LLM Websocket…