Newsletter #3
Hope you've been doing well. Another busy two weeks at re:cinq with a lot to share. Let's get into it.
01 · Training
Now booked: Public agentic coding training, Amsterdam, 10–11 September
The training we were gauging interest in last issue is now confirmed. Two days in Amsterdam, registration is open via Luma. Seats are limited.
Book your seat02 · From the blog
What we've been writing about
I taught an AI my photography style on a €250 GPU
Bogdan fine-tuned PixArt-Sigma on his personal photo library: nine days of compute on a €250 GPU, about €21 of electricity. The model learned his framing and his use of light, not just his subjects. The post covers the practical techniques (aspect-ratio bucketing, pre-computed embeddings, an interpretability tool showing which words influence which image regions) and challenges the assumption that serious AI training needs expensive cloud infrastructure.
EEEG: A Substance Test for Content in the AI Era (Part 1 of 2)
Pini, our CEO, proposes a four-criterion framework for evaluating content quality in the AI era: Educational, Entertaining, Emotional, Grounded. The post addresses a paradox: blanket "AI-generated = bad" reflexes catch the substantive work of knowledgeable people using AI as a writing tool alongside genuine spam. EEEG gives readers (and writers) a more honest test. Part 2 is coming soon.
03 · Podcast
72x Faster Software Delivery with a Former AI Skeptic
Dominic Warchalowski, Lead Engineer at Odevo, joins Waves of Innovation to talk about how his team is delivering eight years of software development in eleven months using agentic workflows. He walks through how Odevo redesigned their engineering processes around AI velocity: upfront discovery, hub repositories for shared context, and how they maintain human oversight throughout.
04 · Community
What's happening in our community
AI Native DevCon, June 1-2 in London: we're sponsoring
We're sponsoring AI Native DevCon next Monday at The Brewery in London. Pini will be presenting on Odevo's AI Native transformation. There's a book signing for From Cloud Native to AI Native, a booth to come find us, and a raffle for a free seat at our CodeGenAI training in Amsterdam (€1,500 value). If you're going, come say hi.
AI Native Netherlands #10 at Yuma, 4 June
The 10th edition of AI Native Netherlands is coming up on June 4 at Yuma in Amsterdam. The 120 spots are already full, but you can still join the waitlist. Thanks to Yuma for sponsoring this one.
RSVP here
05 · Open source
hiring-bias
Bogdan is working on a research project that measures whether LLM résumé screeners change their verdict when you change one demographic signal and nothing else. The code is open source. The research itself is in progress and we'll share findings when they're ready.
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The re:cinq team
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