From the blog
Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.
Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with Anthropic
We chat with Deedy Das, a Principal at Menlo Ventures, who began his career as a software engineer at Facebook and Google. He then dipped a toe in the startup world, spending time at the company now know as Glean. More recently he started a career as a venture capitalist, investing in AI and Infra out of the Anthology Fund, a partnership between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic.
He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience.
Founder and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal tells Ben, Cassidy, and Eira about the developer challenges he aims to solve with his new venture, Harness, an AI-driven software development platform meant to take the pain out of DevOps. Jyoti shares his journey as a founder, his perspective on the venture capital landscape, and his reasons behind his decision to raise debt capital for Harness.
Integrating AI-powered code linting without writing rules
Linters are noisy, but help enforce good coding standards. Performing reviews requires skill, an understanding of the codebase and more. Learn how to use AI-powered code linting to improve productivity and code quality.
Interesting questions
Stuck as a solo dev
“You are a million miles ahead of most of the people calling themselves developers.”
Unix system file tables
“It’s a UNIX system! I know this!”
Is a private third party allowed to take things to court?
Standing on principle doesn’t give you standing.
Does AI use lots of water?
The electricity consumption is obvious, but the water?
Links from around the web
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code
The OG mp3 player is now open source! Time to listen to that old favorite, "Unknown artist - track 01.mp3" again.
Do AI companies work?
Unlike many other companies, the money an AI company has already spent doesn't protect them from disruption.
Simplifiers go far, complexifiers get stuck
If you can explain it like I'm five, then you can move up in the world.
Doing support makes you a better engineer
Learning how customers actually have problems helps you design better solutions.
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