Connect with Michael on LinkedIn. 

Shoutout to user1083266, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database.

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.

Apple?s new LLM, Ferret, could help Siri understand the user interfaces of mobile displays, potentially expanding the capabilities of Apple?s 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?.

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.

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.

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?

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-Fried?s Sentence and the Effects on Crypto/Blockchain

31:28 Closing Remarks and Lifeboat Badge

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

To learn more about the signs that indicate you may be paying more for your cloud computing that you should, check out DoIT?s seven red flags guide. 

We?ve spoken with DoiT on the podcast before about LLM hallucinations and the security threats that LLMs open.

DoiT?s 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

Cribl is a data management platform. Check out their sandbox or explore their products.

Cribl Stream is their vendor-agnostic observability pipeline.

If you?re 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 Cribl?s Role in the Data and Observability Space

26:20 The Pros and Cons of Richer Observability Monitoring

28:11 Closing Remarks and Shoutout

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.

GitClear?s 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

Node.js® is an open-source JavaScript runtime environment.

Deno is an open-source JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime. Explore the quick start or check out Deno by example, a collection of annotated examples of how to use Deno.

JSR is an open-source package registry for JavaScript and TypeScript.

Keep up to date with Ryan on GitHub or his blog.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Squadrons, who earned a Great Question badge by asking for a Pure javascript method to wrap content in a div.

Chapters:

00:00: Introduction and Background

01:08: Creating Node.js

05:00: JavaScript on the Server Side

07:23: Impact of Node.js

09:18: Edge Function System

12:13: Protecting Against Malicious Use

16:02: JSR: Alternative to NPM

31:01: JSR and its Stage

34:20: Future of JavaScript

36:19: Closing and Shoutouts

AI shops are now releasing LLMs optimized for RAG. 

Turn a repo into a prompt for a long-context LLM.

Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and discovery tool.

Good news for developers: Apple will not remove progressive web app support on iOS in the EU.

Basil Bourque earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to get full name of month from date in Java 8 while formatting.

Stack Overflow has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop an API?Overflow API?to give Gemini, Google?s AI model, access to Stack Overflow knowledge communities. 

Learn how Ryan?s team is working toward socially responsible AI.

Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn.

Stack Overflow user verygoodsoftwarenotvirus earned a Great Question badge by asking something at least 87,000 people have also wondered: How can I get all keys from a JSON column in Postgres?.

Check out Maxime?s three-part LLM course. 

Part 1 ?covers essential knowledge about mathematics, Python, and neural networks.

Part 2 ?focuses on building the best possible LLMs using the latest techniques."

Part 3 ?focuses on creating LLM-based applications and deploying them.? 

Read Maxime?s blog.

Follow Maxime on GitHub or LinkedIn.

Nikhil Wagh earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining how to Efficiently compare two sets in Python.

Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. 

If you want to try out generative AI in MailChimp, sign up here. 

Learn more about Intuit technology here.

Many thanks (and a Lifeboat badge) to Dherik for dropping an answer on cURL: how can I return 0 if status is 200?

Connect with Shivang on LinkedIn.

Build GenAI applications faster and cheaper with a vector database like Pinecone.

New to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other GenAI topics? Our guide is a good place to start.

Learn more about RAG and Pinecone.

Connect with Roie on GitHub or LinkedIn.

Pinecone is a vector database that lets companies build GenAI applications faster for less cost.

Read our primer on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or explore RAG and Pinecone.

Follow Roie on GitHub or LinkedIn.

If you need a handy guide to what?s what in the AI space, check out Stack Overflow?s Industry Guide to AI.

SPONSORED BY INTEL

Ryan and Ben chat with Raymond Lo, AI software evangelist at Intel, about the AI PC, the software that powers AI breakthroughs, and optimizing hardware and software in unison to improve generative AI performance. Bonus: what?s the difference between a GPU optimized for graphics and a VPU or NPU optimized for AI?

Episode notes

If you?re interested in trying any of the demos that Raymond talked about, check out Intel?s OpenVINO notebooks.

Learn more about Intel?s Edge AI resources here.

Raymond previously wrote about enhancing image and video resolution using OpenVINO.

You can reach out to Raymond Lo on LinkedIn.

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, Andrey Korneyev, for saving the question, How can I delete specific nodes from an XElement?

Sema?s AI code monitor helps companies manage the risks and capture the benefits of AI in the software development lifecycle. Learn how it works here.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.

Erstwhile podcast cohost Cassidy Williams is the CTO of Contenda. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jim, who earned a Stellar Question badge with Docker cannot start on Windows, a question (well, more of a statement) that?s helped 1.1 million people and counting.

Discussions are now taking place across all tags on Stack Overflow. Check out this one about why people keep proclaiming the death of PHP or this one on whether Jenkins is still the dominant player in the CI/CD space.

What would happen if you suddenly lost consciousness? The Philosophy Stack Exchange has thoughts.

Did knights wear glasses? Historical records don?t really answer this question, but the History Stack Exchange does.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has deemed AI-generated robocalls illegal.

Andrew has worked in many roles, including as Executive Manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he established and grew a platform engineering function that supported 7,000 engineers.

You can find him on LinkedIn here.

You can learn more about Compass, a developer experience platform, here.

Shout to Amelio for earning a stellar question badge and helping over six hundred thousand people with this gem: Getting the name of a variable as a string

Mobb offers AI-powered technology that automates vulnerability remediations with a goal of helping development teams significantly reduce their security backlogs and free up more time for innovation. 

Check out their blog or dive into their docs.

Connect with Eitan on LinkedIn.

Shoutout to Konrad, who won a Stellar Question badge for What is the difference between private and protected members of C++ classes?.

Find out why others have joined Shell.

If you want to experience what being a developer at one of the world?s largest energy companies looks like, they?re hiring.

Great question, Alexander Myshov! This badge was awarded for Are arrow functions faster (more performant, lighter) than ordinary standalone function declaration in v8?

Reach out to Maya on LinkedIn.

William is the CEO of Lightning AI and the creator of PyTorch Lightning, the lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research.

Dive into their docs or explore the developer community.

ICYMI: Across tech, layoffs are boosting share prices.

Follow William on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn.

Shoutout to Brian61354270, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' in Python 3.12.

Is it possible to make a PDF bigger than Germany? Here?s one larger than the known universe. As its creator says, ?it?s mostly empty space, but so is the universe.?

Massachusetts is leading the way in the skills-based hiring revolution by eliminating degree requirements for state jobs.

Did you miss these deeply uncanny AI-generated food images, from the conjoined chickens to the macaroni and cheese rendered in shapes formerly unknown to geometry? Never fear; you can still see some here.

You may have forgotten about crypto (or at least tried), but more than 2% of the United States?s electricity generation goes to large-scale crypto mining.

Stack Overflow user Jeff Allen earned a Great Question badge for Create a Vector of All Days Between Two Dates, which has helped 85,000 R users.

AI-generated code is ?not equivalent to reliable and robust code, especially in the context of real-world software development,? according to a new study whose title got our attention.

Tech layoffs continue in the wake of the pandemic hiring boom, sending some share prices into the sky.

Take a look at how AI coding assistants are already changing the way code is made.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user nonopolarity, who earned a Great Question badge by asking Can someone explain SSH tunnel in a simple way?.

A theory explores how to play DOOM inside a human cell. Fair warning, you'll need about 600 years to complete the game.

Looking for a good prompt builder to help you get the most out of your LLM? Try this one or explore this huge collection of prompts.

Startup Twin Labs wants to build a product that automates repetitive tasks by letting AI take over your cursor.

Harvard Medical School researchers published a study showing that the CRISPR system can encode information in living cells ?as complex as a digitized image of a human hand.? Read more.

Three cheers for Max Lybbert, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering Python faster than C++? How does this happen?.

Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. 

Learn more about Intuit technology here.

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Mohsin Naeem for answering the question How can I extract metadata from an MP3 file?

Connect with Merrin on LinkedIn or X. 

Connect with Shivang on LinkedIn.

The estate of the late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of an hour-long AI-generated comedy special that mimics Carlin?s distinctive delivery and material. [Ed. note: not actually AI, still lawsuit.]

Prefer your AI more Freudo-Marxist? Here?s a never-ending, AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ?i?ek. You?re welcome.

Google?s Bard surpassed GPT-4 to claim the second spot on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard.

Agile development is faltering at big companies, and a recent report cites developer burnout as a factor. But maybe the problem lies in companies? (mis)understanding of agile.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Emil Laine, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How can I include all of the C++ Standard Library at once?.

Find out what?s new with ML in production.

Machine learning models must learn to unlearn.

Open-source game engine Godot now has a free Nintendo Switch port for game developers.

We?ve previously hosted Godot cofounder and lead developer Juan Linietsky on the podcast.

Stack Overflow user areller earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How to call a destructor.

A white-hat hacker uncovered security vulnerabilities in an AI-powered hiring system used by fast-food chains and hourly employees around the world. Read the blog post or watch this explainer.

Mariposa is a programming language with time travel.

Want to be an individual contributor (IC) who still amplifies the performance of everyone around you? Be a radiating programmer.

Congratulations to onmyway133, winner of a Stellar Question badge for What does the suspend function mean in a Kotlin Coroutine?.

Mariposa is a toy programming language that has time travel as a primary feature. Bugs are a thing of the past (literally)!

Miss having a physical keyboard when thumb-typing on your phone? Well, you?re in luck. 

Over at CES, LG Electronics wants your devices to have ?affectionate intelligence.? Whatever it takes to make AI more human-centric and empathetic.

Omar used to work on the Backstage project at Spotify, so we quoted him in our article on it. 

Now he works on personalization, including Discover Weekly, which drops a new mixtape on you every Monday like a hipster with a crush.

Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered assistant you can keep in your pocket (but it?s not a phone).

How will AI impact scientific research? A new collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is focused on energy storage solutions.

A US Senate hearing questions whether tech companies should be allowed to train their AI models on content produced by journalists without paying licensing fees.

Learn how to build a mechanical computer from Legos.

Now you know: The human body can serve as a resonance chamber for remote car keys, effectively extending their range.

A hackathon team used GenAI can create a fully playable D&D-style game in just one day.

Skybox AI from Blockade Labs allows users to generate 360° skybox experiences from text prompts.

A significant advancement in the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) space: a novel framework called DeWave integrates ?discrete encoding sequences into open-vocabulary EEG-to-text translation tasks? without the need for ?eye-tracking fixations or event markers to segment brain dynamics into word-level features.?

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vineeth Chitteti, who earned a Favorite Question badge with Is it possible to hit multiple pods with a single request in Kubernetes cluster?.

Willis Gibson, 13, closed out 2023 by becoming the first person to officially beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. Here?s how he did it.

Want to understand the code that caused the ultimate killscreen? Watch this great explainer from HydrantDude.

The 2023 film Tetris is based on the true story of the legal battle to license the game.

Is the era of the robot butler upon us? Mobile ALOHA is a low-cost and whole-body teleoperation system for data collection. Check out some of what it can do.

Explore the questions and answers on the Mathematics Stack Exchange.

Will AI fundamentally change software development or just add some efficiencies around the edges?  Surveys from Stack Overflow and Github find north of 70% have probably already tried using it and many incorporate it into their daily work through a helper in the IDE. 

It's also worth reflecting a bit on the technology sectors that didn't have as great a 2023: crypto, VR, and quantum computing still seem far from mainstream adoption. 

We dive a little into the half-life of skills, which seem to be shrinking, especially in IT. Got any resolutions to learn something new this year?

And what about the data we use for training? We highlight a comment from Kian Katanforoosh, a lecturer who helped create Stanford's Deep Learning course with Andrew Ng, who says we'll run out of high quality data as soon as 2030.

A big thanks and congrats to Stack Overflow user  Corn3lius for helping to answer a question and being awarded a life boat badge: How can I create spoiler text?

Along with his work at Stanford, Katanforoosh is a founding member of deeplearning.ai and co-created the Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera. 

He believes the rapidly expanding capabilities of AI will mean that humans, and especially programmers, will need to learn new skills faster than ever. This doesn't mean machines are going to take our jobs. Rather, with the assistance of AI, humans will become far more capable, learning faster and mastering more domains. 

Not surprisingly, Katanforoosh has built his business with the goal of addressing this issue. Workera aims to help companies identify where their employees lack skills and provide them with personalized instruction that can quickly bring them up to the next level.

You can find Kian on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Stanford's website. 

Thanks to Stack Overflow user PaxDiablo, who was awarded a Life Boat badge for providing a great answer to the question: Given  a month in numeric form, how do you find the first month of its respective quarter? 

Biilmann says we can't ignore the impact GenAI is having on developer productivity.  One of their engineers created a  GPT that automatically generates stories for React + TypeScript components, and after seeing how successful it was internally, Netlify made it open source for the public.

We also chat over the results of their recent State of Web Development survey. The key takeaway is below: 

The 80% of developers that have integrated AI into their workflow are quickly reaping the benefits. Seventy percent report using AI to automate manual and repetitive tasks and 42% are using it to improve internal knowledge sharing and increase productivity, freeing up more time for impactful work and enabling faster launch times. Over 50% of developers also realized new opportunities that AI created, such as generating new web projects with a single prompt or reading API documentation.

However, AI experimentation is not without its own unique challenges. Developers are concerned about receiving incorrect answers and information (65%), security issues and leaking confidential information (52%), a lack of regulation (48%), and a decrease in code quality (45%).

So much opportunity, but plenty of risk as well. 

Last but not least, Biilmann tells us what he's looking forward to in the near future, specifically apps that can reformat their UI on the fly to be more customized to each user. He calls this UI 2.0, and it sounds a bit like what Google showed off in its recent Gemini demo. 

Congrats to our lifeboat winner of the week, Petrus Theron, who answered the question: How can I make a public struct where all fields are public without repeating `pub` for every field?

The broken nose in jail scam is on the rise. With AI improvements, it?ll get harder to spot. 

OWASP, a non-profit dedicated to software security, tracks the top ten security risks for LLMs.

We?ve spoken with DoiT on the podcast before about LLM hallucinations. 

DoiT?s 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.

On today?s home team episode, Ben and Ryan discuss the implications of a lapse in section 174 of the tax code. Here?s a great explainer on how it?s affecting startups and software firms, threatening jobs and potentially bankrupting some struggling companies. 

Video game employees are exploring a union and Microsoft recently announced it will stay neutral in the process. 

What?s the difference between a bad game, a low effort developer, and shovelware? Our game development Stack Exchange has some thoughts.

Today?s lifeboat badge winner is ?that_other_guy?, who explained: What is the difference between kill and kill -9? Hint, you want to terminate your process, not brutally murder it, ok! 

Does ChatGPT have seasonal depression?

AIs aren?t building apps on their own, at least not yet?but they are helping developers build them. Read Isaac Lyman?s article about the three types of AI-assisted programmers.

ICYMI: Listen to our interview with linguist Ga?per Begu?, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about how LLMs and humans acquire language. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user nhgrif, who earned a Lifeboat badge by rescuing Store only date without time in a database from the ash heap of history.

While FireHydrant is mostly known for their incident management software, they?re introducing Signals to modernize alerting and consolidate it with incident management. 

FireHydrant was born out of an incident where a database was dropped at 5:30pm on a Friday right before network maintenance started. It also led to Robert?s social media handle, Bobby Tables. 

This one time?at band camp?Robert got paged in the middle of trumpet practice?on his sabbatical.

Congrats to Great Question badge winner timdim for asking How can I flush GPU memory using CUDA (physical reset is unavailable)?. 100 people thought it was worth voting for.

Gemini, Google?s new AI model, is great at competitive programming, among other things.

AI Explained is a YouTube channel that covers the latest developments in AI.

One problem with regulating AI is that the technology evolves (much) faster than regulators can.

Wikifunctions is an open repository of code that anyone can use or contribute to.

Did we need another study to tell us that longer commutes are bad for mental health? Probably not, but here?s one anyway.

Are governments spying on you through push notifications? Sounds like it! In fact, push notifications are a privacy nightmare.

CommandBar is a user assistance platform (UAP). Their flagship product, Copilot, is an embedded user assistant agent that companies can configure to help their users with on-demand help, including interactive walkthroughs and personalized responses. 

Read James?s article about why CommandBar built Copilot, then get started with their docs.

Follow James on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Follow CommandBar on LinkedIn and Twitter.

If you?ve ever wondered Why "Yarn 2" is Yarn 3.0.1, Lifeboat badge winner Ilias Karim has your answer.

Do LLMs herald the end of computer programming (as we know it)? A Harvard lecture weighs in on this contentious topic.

An epic hardware bug story.

Question from the academic trenches: How bad will it look to prospective employers if you refuse to defend your PhD? (Answer: Pretty bad.)

Another intriguing question: Were postal pneumatic tubes in Berlin really cleaned with wine?

The Jetsons misled us about many aspects of the future, from flying cars to the role of pneumatics, but they were onto something with the series of tubes.

Before influencers and social media algorithms, there were coolhunters.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user tjati, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering What does 'HTML is escaping' mean?.

As the year winds to a close, some big employers are facing lower-than-expected attrition rates?in other words, fewer people than expected are quitting. What a difference a year or two makes.

People have strong opinions on the return-to-office conversation. Read Eira?s article and let us know how you feel.

We are just beginning to explore the effects of prompting on the capabilities and performance of LLMs.

The Humane AI pin can be described as a cross between two of humanity?s most beloved technologies: Google Glass and the pager.

People are using low-cost drones, 3D printers, and private satellites to preserve irreplaceable cultural heritage sites before they are destroyed or lost to time. (Stay tuned while Eira figures out how to apply this tech as a cemetery tour guide.)

Stack Overflow user FlipperPA earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to The 'Black' formatter - Python.

Bito AI is an AI coding tool that helps developers work more productively with features like code completion within the IDE and personalized answers drawn from your codebase. Get started with their docs here.

ICYMI: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a way of addressing LLM hallucinations and outdated training data.

Listen to our recent episode about how an original architect of Jira is rethinking meaningful engineering metrics.

Connect with Anand on LinkedIn or Twitter.com. 

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user 

Jan Karda?, whose answer to Go: Retrieve a string from between two characters or other strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.

Cloudflare is a cloud provider used by almost 20% of all websites. Developers new to Cloudflare can get started here.

Cloudflare recently launched Workers AI, an open, pay-as-you-go AI inference-as-a-service platform that lets developers run machine learning models on the Cloudflare network from their own code. Developers can get started here.

On a related note, read Ryan?s article exploring the infrastructure and code behind edge functions or check out his conversation with Vercel CTO Malte Ubl.

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data.

Connect with Rita on LinkedIn.

Connect with Cassidy through her website.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Bamieh, whose answer to What does the function call app.use(cors()) do? earned them a Lifeboat badge.

Sana automates user enrollment, training reminders, and other manual/admin tasks associated with onboarding and learning. Sana AI, their AI assistant, is trained on a company?s data so employees can self-serve the knowledge they need.

On a related note, listen to our interview with Ga?per Begu?, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs and humans acquire language.

You can also read about how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search.

Connect with Joel on LinkedIn.

Stack Overflow user Donagh Hatton received a well-earned Lifeboat badge with their answer to Why is StringBuilder much faster than String?.

Episode notes:

Chronosphere is introducing Lens, a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services. 

At Uber, Rob created M3, an open-source metrics engine compatible with Prometheus.  

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, ralf htp, for their answer to How to read an image in Python OpenCV. 

If you want to meet Rob and the Chronosphere team, they?ll be at AWS re:Invent  from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1.