Not All Legacy Endures, Not All Innovation Delivers.

Theres the fun exchange with bond and Q in skyfall

Age is no guarantee of efficiency... And youth is no guarantee of innovation. — Skyfall (2012)

Compare with "New" products that have failed, anything microsoft

This article on stages of technology adapters https://omniplexlearning.com/blog/technology-adoption-curve-stages/

You want to be pragmatist/conservative depending on where you are in your business

If you're working at home, or you're doing it for fun you can afford to be an innovator or adopter. But not when $$$ is on the line

An exploration of different ML approches, don't use an ML for everything. But, there are some approaches that haven't stood the test of time like a GRU/LSTM

David A'Hearne

About the author

David A'Hearne

ML Engineer and founder with 13 years building production systems, the last two focused on applied ML. I've shipped NLP scoring pipelines, RAG systems for clinical code retrieval, and LLM-integrated APIs with production MLOps tooling. Currently completing a BSc in Mathematics alongside a Cambridge Data Science Career Accelerator. I'm also building Covet, a hiring platform.

Python ML & NLP Cloud Architecture Distributed Systems Go

// what we're building

Covet is fixing the exact problem you just read about.

Structured mutual qualification — candidates and companies matched on fit, not keyword density. No spray-and-pray. No ghosting. Rejections that actually tell you why.

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