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Not just a vibe, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is really here
This year, we're not just collecting data; we're reflecting on the last year of questions, answers, hallucinations, job changes, tech stacks, memory allocations, models, systems and agents—together.
Getting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify
Ryan welcomes Glen Coates, VP of Product at Shopify, to dive into the intricacies of managing a developer-focused product, the challenges of backwards compatibility, and the implications of AI and LLMs in Shopify's development environment.
Understanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success
What challenges do organizations face when adopting AI, and why is understanding its limitations key to success?
A deep dive into building an agent framework for Salesforce
We’re always trying to make it easy for users to pick out the information they need and gain insights into their processes, so a natural language interface seemed like a dream.
“The future is agents”: Building a platform for RAG agents
Douwe Kiela, CEO and cofounder of Contextual AI, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the intricacies of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They discuss the early research Douwe did at Meta that jump started the whole thing, the challenges of hallucinations, and the significance of context windows in AI applications.
WBIT #8: Typescript for gut biomes
Kyle is joined by his former colleague Tyler McEntee, now a senior software engineer at Jona, to talk about doing everything all at once at a startup.
Build blockchain apps with TypeScript. Join AlgoKit workshop
If you already know TypeScript, you can build blockchain apps on Algorand. Algorand's AlgoKit workshops walk through the basics of smart contracts. No blockchain background required, just curiosity.
Interesting questions
Do all irrational numbers contain each other?
Perhaps we could find a super-irrational number that is all numbers and then we can be done with math altogether.
How to handle a candidate's inappropriate use of 'AI' during an interview?
"At what point does AI go from being a tool to being a form of cheating?"
What is the maximum number of faces of a cube that you can see at the same time?
Try thinking inside the box here.
Least bad time to take an academic break
Like most mathematicians and developers, the asker would rather be a carpenter.
Links from around the web
U.S. sanctions cloud provider ‘Funnull’ as top source of ‘pig butchering’ scams
Now do the fake toll bill scams.
Dispatch from the trenches of the Butlerian Jihad
Before we scorch the sky, can we try pen and paper assignments first?
The recurring cycle of 'developer replacement' hype
Developers are always being replaced...by people who know the tools and make more money.
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Pretty soon they'll be able to solve CAPTCHAs too.
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