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Hello, I'm Sara!

I'm an experienced software engineer currently based in Europe. I write and give talks about LLMs, NLP, GenAI and AI in general. I'm an open-source contributor and former CERN employee.

Recent Posts

August 04, 2026

A Sycophantic Model Can't Be AGI

We won't ever manage to build an LLM that is smarter than us if we incentivize it to always agree with us.

July 05, 2026

Reasoning makes translations worse

We tend to believe that making the LLM reason more can only improve its answer, regardless of the task. However, when translating from a language to another, the opposite happens.

June 12, 2026

What's an agent harness?

The intelligence of modern AI agents is due to the LLMs, but their practical capabilities only exist thanks to their harness.

May 26, 2026

Reasoning effort defaults across the GPT-5.x family

If you never pinned the reasoning effort across model upgrades, you may have accidentally changed your reasoning effort dramatically.

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Recent Talks

October 27, 2026

[UPCOMING] ODSC AI West - From RAG to AI Agent: A Step By Step Build

October 19, 2026

[UPCOMING] Python Summit - Is Python the favorite language of LLMs?

September 22, 2026

[UPCOMING] 19th PyData Lisbon Meetup - Special on AI Infrastructure

August 19, 2026

AMTA - AI and the Future of Low-Resource Languages

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