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Issue 274: Automated for the people

Every other week, it seems like somebody has a new AI-related take or buzzword, and the rest of us have to sort out whether it's worth learning about. Like agents; what the heck are they? Fortunately, we dug into that very question to see what lies beneath the hype. Agents, like a lot of software, help automate tasks—we're got a look at how much you can automate sysadmin tasks. Then, with all these AI agents running rampant in your system, you need to think about scale—in our latest Leaders of Code, Recursion's VP of engineering Maureen Makes does just that. xx As we've often promised and occasionally delivered, we have more for you besides AI. In the latest We'll Be In Touch, Kyle sits down with former Stacker Michael Stum to chat about WebAssembly, how he learned to code by tackling Stack Overflow questions, and more. Speaking of Stack Overflow (aren't we always?), our private version, Stack Overflow for Teams, has a new release for Enterprise users. xx Okay readers, lightning round <airhorn>. How do you tell HR that you're quitting because your desk is terrible? Why does Discord see through time? What can you learn from the failure of a startup? Will the CVE database disappear when its grants run out?

Issue 273: Would you open source your AI?

No matter where in the world you live, this newsletter is hitting your inbox free of tariffs. I mean, it's always free, and we've got some excellent freebies for you. We dropped the results of our survey on open-source AI, and it's got plenty of insights into how developers of all experience levels view the rise of open-source LLMs like LLaMa and DeepSeek. -- On the podcast side, we have two conversations recorded at the HumanX conference and one new Leaders of Code episode. We chatted with Amr Awadallah, CEO of Vectara, about how AI's going to give us that "I know kung fu" moment sooner rather than later. We serve up a conversation with a repeat customer, Tomasz Tunguz, about his theories (and his Theory Ventures) about the AI landscape. In Leaders of Code, our own Ellen Brandenberger chats with Maureen Makes, VP of Engineering at Recursion, about whether you can move too fast with AI. -- Did you know that the #! is called a shebang? Me either. Find out how it works with the Linux kernel in our links section. Want to know how dang wrong Jules Verne (and, frankly, everybody else in 1865) was about the Rocky Mountains? Check our questions. Dear reader, there's even more, so I'll get out of the way of your scroll wheel.

Issue 272: On bubbles and revolutions

Hey, have you all heard of AI? I kid, I kid, but it's popular for a reason. This week, we cover all sorts of angles on the topic du jour in today's software industry. We chat with the CEOs of HumanX and Crunchbase about the state of the AI industry. We chat with the field CTO of GitLab about how AI best supports learning. We chat with folks at the HumanX conference about audio models and LLM governance. There's more to AI than just LLM, and we've got leads on that too. There's info on the new role web data will play in LLMs. Our friends at Intuit talk about an old-school AI technique they use to manage the NP-hard problem of scheduling appointments at scale. In other links, we've got the usual roundup of delicious info. Ponder the math of roasted meats. Remember one of the code breakers who helped stop the Nazis. Learn about the movement to develop web apps for local-first execution. And argue whether there were CRT displays that could refresh faster than 60Hz.

Issue 271: From embeddings to agents

We talk a lot about AI and its effects on coders. The reality is that the keywords and syntax many of us use to activate software magic might not be as important in an AI future. In the latest Leaders of Code podcast, our CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar talks to GitLab Field CTO Lee Faus about why critical thinking might be the new must-have developer skill. There are plenty of harder tech skills that AI requires. Vector databases and embeddings have been the foundation of many GenAI advances, and we talk about it with Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty. On the other end of the AI spectrum, we talk about the thing that everybody is talking about now: agents. Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS, breaks down whether these plucky little robots are ready for prime time. Meanwhile, have you ever thought about rewriting the C++ standard library? Me either, but we have a link to someone who did. Plus Go slices, random PC crashes, homophones gone wild, and translating an artistic perspective into math.