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 Kivimäki 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 “ban,” setting a deadline for the platform’s parent company, China-...
Apr 30, 2024•19 min•Ep. 697
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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...
Apr 26, 2024•29 min•Ep. 696
Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s 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 Wittgenstein’s position that “meaning is use”? That depends whether you’re talking pre or post Tractatus , of course. TikTok wouldn’t lie to you: you re...
Apr 23, 2024•25 min•Ep. 695
Why can’t 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 Francisco’s train system still uses floppy disks . But don’t worry, an upgrade is coming—in 2030. Shoutout to Bite code , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository? . See Privacy Policy at htt...
Apr 19, 2024•17 min•Ep. 694
Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today. Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center . Learn more about Google’s 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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Apr 17, 2024•42 min•Ep. 693
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn . Shoutout to user1083266 , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Apr 16, 2024•33 min•Ep. 692
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? ....
Apr 12, 2024•19 min•Ep. 691
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
Apr 10, 2024•26 min•Ep. 690
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 podcast@stackoverflow.com or DM Ben here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...
Apr 09, 2024•20 min•Ep. 689
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? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...
Apr 05, 2024•23 min•Ep. 688
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 priso...
Apr 02, 2024•29 min•Ep. 687
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 bala...
Mar 29, 2024•19 min•Ep. 686
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 answ...
Mar 27, 2024•27 min•Ep. 685
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 Warehous...
Mar 26, 2024•27 min•Ep. 684
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:...
Mar 22, 2024•28 min•Ep. 683
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 ...
Mar 19, 2024•32 min•Ep. 682
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-in...
Mar 15, 2024•19 min•Ep. 681
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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...
Mar 12, 2024•25 min•Ep. 680
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...
Mar 08, 2024•31 min•Ep. 679
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 07, 2024•20 min•Ep. 678
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 05, 2024•19 min•Ep. 677
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 01, 2024•19 min•Ep. 676
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 resourc...
Feb 28, 2024•26 min•Ep. 675
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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...
Feb 27, 2024•34 min•Ep. 674
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-gen...
Feb 23, 2024•18 min•Ep. 673
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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...
Feb 20, 2024•23 min•Ep. 672
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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht...
Feb 16, 2024•26 min•Ep. 671
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Feb 14, 2024•21 min•Ep. 670
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and ...
Feb 13, 2024•32 min•Ep. 669
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 ma...
Feb 09, 2024•19 min•Ep. 668
