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OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coherent answer. It encompasses three modules: Enhanced Search, an upgraded search experience; Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code, an IDE extension; and Auto-Answer App for Slack, which automates access to essential team knowledge.
Read about why OverflowAI is a big step toward integrating GenAI offerings into knowledge communities and dig into whatâs launching and why itâs valuable.
Connect with Ash on LinkedIn.
Big props to Stack Overflow user Jennifer M., who earned both a Great Question badge and a Famous Question badge by wondering How to combine the sequence of objects in jq into one object?.
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Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here.
His scroll art project introduces beginners to programming by letting them turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art.
Al joined us from a retreat at the Brooklyn, NY-based Recurse Center, which offers free, self-directed retreats for programmers. Learn how to apply here.
PyCon US 2024 is May 15-23, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Connect with Al through his website.
Shoutout to user Alex. S., who asked Stack Overflowâs most popular Python question ever: What does the "yield" keyword do in Python?. Itâs helped 3.3 million people and counting.
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Read Eiraâs two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here.
Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a âsecond brainâ to help them track and remember information. Read Eiraâs article on what second brains reveal about how we work.
A few years back Chris joined us to talk about the most lightweight web âframeworkâ around: VanillaJS. Listen to the episode.
Chris offers classes and workshops for front-end developers, plus daily advice for developers with ADHD.
Connect with Chris through his website or social media.
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Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub.
We last spoke with Marco in 2023. inf
Connect with Marco on LinkedIn.
Congrats to Famous Question badge winner mjbradford7 on How to re-render one component from another in React.
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If youâve been laid off or youâre just sweating the possibility, hereâs what to do.
Check out the results of our last job market survey.
Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to stevenkucera, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I create a global, mutable singleton?.
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In a narrow vote, the US Federal Trade Commission banned almost all noncompete agreements, a staple of the tech industry for years.
Learn how a 2017 tax law is haunting startups in 2024.
Finnish hacker Aleksanteri KivimÀki exposed tens of thousands of confidential psychiatric records and tried to extort payment directly from the affected patients. Read more about it here or here.
It happened: President Biden signed the TikTok âban,â setting a deadline for the platformâs parent company, China-based ByteDance, to divest the app within a year. And TikTok faces yet more hurdles ahead.
Net neutrality is back, baby. Hereâs what that means.
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SQLite is the most used database engine in the world.
Stop by the forum or explore the docs.
Devs have pledged to support SQLite through the year 2050.
The developer with a team of three, all of them himself at different points in time, was Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame.
On Stack Overflow, 1.2 million people have found the answer to How can I list the tables in a SQLite database file that was opened with ATTACH?.
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Metaâs open-source Llama 3 model puts Metaâs AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT.
Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI foundation model to reduce its workforce since the advent of generative AI.
Is the dot-com bubble a cautionary tale for AI enthusiasts? Listen to the episode of Marketplace from NPR.
Do LLMs support Wittgensteinâs position that âmeaning is useâ? That depends whether youâre talking pre or post Tractatus, of course.
TikTok wouldnât lie to you: you really can make friends with your local crows. Eiraâs proven method for befriending crows: Feed them dry cat food on a consistent schedule, so they learn youâre reliable, and watch them eat, so they grok that you are feeding them intentionally.
Stack Overflow user Arman Ordookhani received a well-deserved Lifeboat badge for telling nearly 30,000 people How to free memory in go.
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Why canât configuration be made simple?
Apple is making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts.
Texas is swapping human graders for AI.
Automattic (owner of WordPress) is acquiring Beeper for $125M.
Silicon Valley or not, San Franciscoâs train system still uses floppy disks. But donât worry, an upgrade is comingâin 2030.
Shoutout to Bite code, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository?.
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Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today.
Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center.
Learn more about Googleâs Gemini models.
Shout out to thitemple for their Lifeboat-worthy answer to In TypeScript, how do I declare a function that returns a string type array?.
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Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.
Shoutout to user1083266, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database.
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ICYMI: A backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility, highlights the risks of relying on open-source software maintained by small teams. Read more about the cyberattack here.
Appleâs new LLM, Ferret, could help Siri understand the user interfaces of mobile displays, potentially expanding the capabilities of Appleâs digital assistant.
Shoutout to Stack Overflow user cheese1756, who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I ensure that whitespace is preserved in Markdown?.
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Learn more about the potential of AI inference with OpenVINO Notebooks.
Check out the previous podcast with Intel, where we talk with Raymond Lo about how hardware and software work together with AI.
Connect with Ria on LinkedIn or GitHub.
Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Kevin, who showed what they know about TypeError; Must use key word argument or key function in Python 3.x.
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A developer discovered a backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility. Read more about the cyberattack here.
A Microsoft technical report pinpoints 54 attributes of great software engineers.
A new report from The Economist lays out how AI is changing drug development.
Are you sick of hearing about AI? What topics or technologies would you rather hear us talk about? Email us at [email protected] or DM Ben here.
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You can find Jessica on LinkedIn.
We've published several posts, including this most recent one, about our attempt to shape an ethical approach to combining our community of knowledge and today's AI systems.
Check out this blog post that details some of the work we did to build our data platform.
Congrats to macfij on your lifeboat badge for answering the question: How can I do a CTRL + A and a CTRL + C?
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DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks, reportedly outperforms GPT-3.5 and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro.
Recent research found that large, complex LLMs use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge in response to a user prompt. These mechanisms can help researchers reveal what the model knows and potentially even correct false information it has stored.
FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, whose downfall began in late 2022, was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison for conspiracy and fraud.
Find Michael on LinkedIn.
Find Cassidy on her website.
Stack Overflow user Bucket received a well-deserved Lifeboat badge for rescuing How to calculate decimal(x, y) max value in SQL Server from an ocean of ignorance.
Chapters (please note that these timestamps may not be exact):
00:00 Introduction and White Paper Discussion
02:01 Long Context Windows and Retrieval Augmented Generation
05:56 Models' Ability to Recall Relevant Information
07:18 Models' Creativity and Thinking Outside the Box
09:41 Advantages and Limitations of Models' Knowledge
15:09 Databricks' Open Language Model
22:25 Sam Bankman-Friedâs Sentence and the Effects on Crypto/Blockchain
31:28 Closing Remarks and Lifeboat Badge
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Small nations like Anguilla (.ai) and Tuvalu (.tv) are benefiting from their coveted domain names.
The US government is suing Apple for violation of antitrust laws, which could have a huge impact on devs, end users, and the whole ecosystem.
Reddit went public last week despite not being profitable since its launch in 2005.
How can you give feedback on a poorly reviewed PR? The Software Engineering Stack Exchange has ideas.
The four day work week is probably not the solution to our work-life balance problems.
AI-powered software development tools like Devon show promise, but their impact on code quality and maintainability remains an open question.
Shoutout to Robert, who earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining Square brackets in CSS.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:31 The Impact of Dot AI Domain Space
01:07 Antitrust Cases Against Apple
04:01 Vendor Lock-in and Apple's Ecosystem
05:08 Issues with Infotainment Systems and Apple Play
06:29 The Benefits and Challenges of a Four-Day Work Week
08:03 Providing Feedback on a Badly Reviewed PR
10:00 The Importance of Clear Expectations in Code Reviews
11:40 The Potential of AI Tools in Development
14:01 Reddit Going Public and the Future of Tech Companies
15:29 AI Tool Devon and the Challenges of Operationalizing AI Projects
21:22 Shoutout and Closing Remarks
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To learn more about the signs that indicate you may be paying more for your cloud computing that you should, check out DoITâs seven red flags guide.
Weâve spoken with DoiT on the podcast before about LLM hallucinations and the security threats that LLMs open.
DoiTâs sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to use the cloud, free of charge, with the big cloud providers paying the bills.
Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Sravan K Ghantasala for their answer to How to sort file lines in Bash?
Find Joshua at joshuafox com.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Cloud Cost Control
01:08 Joshua Fox's Background
04:20 Understanding FinOps
06:17 The Importance of Good Architecture
08:18 Balancing Flexibility in Architecture
10:04 Surprise Costs and Dealing with Them
13:19 Bracing for Unexpected Cloud Costs
25:41 The Future of Cloud Cost Optimization
27:09 Closing Remarks
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Cribl is a data management platform. Check out their sandbox or explore their products.
Cribl Stream is their vendor-agnostic observability pipeline.
If youâre new to the term, the observability pipeline is a crucial component of the cloud-native world.
Connect with Nick on LinkedIn.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
03:23 The Data Landscape and Generative AI
06:08 Incumbents vs. Startups in the Data Space
07:46 Challenges of Data Storage and Exfiltration
09:38 Securing Large Warehouses of Data
12:21 Data Quality and ETL Pipelines
16:05 Measures of Data Quality for Gen AI
22:04 Criblâs Role in the Data and Observability Space
26:20 The Pros and Cons of Richer Observability Monitoring
28:11 Closing Remarks and Shoutout
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GitClear is a developer-friendly code review tool that aims to deliver higher developer satisfaction and faster releases. Check out their blog or find them on GitHub.
GitClearâs research focuses on how AI code-gen tools have impacted code quality (and not in a good way).
Find Bill on LinkedIn.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:30 Background of the Research
06:09 Business Model of GitClear
09:46 Copy Pasted Code
10:26 Churn Code
12:21 Code Readability
14:12 Code Suggestions and Auto-Completion
16:34 Drop in Moved Code
23:18 Larger Token Windows
26:31 Improving Gen AI
28:46 Conclusion
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