Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, developers, and venture capitalists. Ben tries to get a bead on a new Moore’s law for the GenAI era: when will we start to see diminishing returns and fewer step factor jumps? Ben and Cassidy remember the time they made a viral joke of a keyboard ! Ryan sees how things goes in cycles. A Stack Overflow job board is back ! And what do we make of the ...
Jun 25, 2024•24 min•Ep. 713
How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews, the goal is to get a high level overview of a software team’s total activity and then use AI to measure the complexity of the tasks and output. If a pull request attached to a Jira ticket is evaluated as simple by the system, for example, and a programmer takes weeks to finish it, then their productivity would be scored poorly. If a coder pushes c...
Jun 21, 2024•29 min•Ep. 712
RelationalAI’s first big partner is Snowflake , meaning customers can now start using their data with GenAI without worrying about the privacy, security, and governance hassle that would come with porting their data to a new cloud provider. The company promises it can also add metadata and a knowledge graph to existing data without pushing it through an ETL pipeline. You can learn more about the company’s services here . You can catch up with Cassie on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user ...
Jun 18, 2024•26 min•Ep. 711
Palmer says that a huge percentage of today’s top websites, including apps like ChartGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, were built with Vercel’s Next.JS. For the second goal, you can see what Vercel is up to with its v0 project , which lets developers use text prompts and images to generate code. Third, the Vercel AI SDK, which aims to to help developers build conversational, streaming, and chat user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. You can learn more here . If you want to catch Jared posting ...
Jun 14, 2024•35 min•Ep. 710
You can learn more about these three features on our Overflow AI site . If you want to connect with Tiago, you can find him on LinkedIn . The same goes for Alexa . A shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahozad for earning a LifeBoat badge with their answer to the question: How can I add Jetpack Compose & xml in the same activity?...
Jun 11, 2024•21 min•Ep. 709
You can learn more about Squire AI here Connect with Patel on his LinkedIn Congrats to Bharath Pabba for earning a Great Question badge and helping 129,000 people with a similar question by asking: How to disable source maps for React JS Application?
Jun 07, 2024•25 min•Ep. 708
You can find Narayan on LinkedIn . Learn more about SnapLogic here . Congrats to our user of the week, Ethan Heilman, for earning a Great Question badge by showing some curiosity and asking: How do I deal with garbage collection logs in Java? This question has been viewed over 175,000 times and helped lots of folks gain some new knowledge :)...
Jun 04, 2024•28 min•Ep. 707
You can find Shestakofsky on his website or check him out on X . Grab a copy of his new book: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality . As he writes on his website, the book: Draws on 19 months of participant-observation research to examine how investors’ demand for rapid growth created organizational problems that managers solved by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. The book shows how the burdens imposed on startups by venture capital...
May 31, 2024•28 min•Ep. 706
Temporal is an open-source implementation of durable execution, a development paradigm that preserves complete application state so that upon host or software failure it can seamlessly migrate execution to another machine. Learn how it works or dive into the docs . Temporal’s SaaS offering is Temporal Cloud . Replay is a three-day conference focused on durable execution. Replay 2024 is September 18-20 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Get your early bird tickets or submit a talk proposal! Connect wit...
May 28, 2024•22 min•Ep. 705
Robin is the author of a practical handbook for Selenium test automation . Connect with Robin on LinkedIn , Twitter , or via his website . Shoutout to user2651084 , who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I reset the Jupyter/IPython input prompt numbering? ....
May 24, 2024•21 min•Ep. 704
Galileo is an end-to-end platform for GenAI evaluation, experimentation, and observability. Learn more by exploring their docs . Galileo’s Hallucination Index is a ranking and evaluation framework for LLM hallucinations (it includes a blooper reel). Connect with Vikram on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Petr Janeček won a Lifeboat badge for answering Null array to empty list , a question that’s helped more than 47,000 other curious folks. Are you a software developer? Take Stack Overflow’s annual...
May 21, 2024•33 min•Ep. 703
OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coherent answer. It encompasses three modules: Enhanced Search, an upgraded search experience; Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code, an IDE extension; and Auto-Answer App for Slack, which automates access to essential team knowledge. Read about why OverflowAI is a big step toward integrating GenAI offerings into knowledge communities and dig into what’s ...
May 17, 2024•32 min•Ep. 702
Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here . His scroll art project introduces beginners to programming by letting them turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art. Al joined us from a retreat at the Brooklyn, NY-based Recurse Center , which offers free, self-directed retreats for programmers. Learn how to apply here . PyCon US 2024 is May 15-23, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Connect with ...
May 14, 2024•25 min•Ep. 701
Read Eira’s two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here . Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a “second brain” to help them track and remember information. Read Eira’s article on what second brains reveal about how we work. A few years back Chris joined us to talk about the most lightweight web “framework” around: VanillaJS. Listen to the episode . Chris offers classes and workshops for front-end developers , plus daily advice for developers with ADHD . Connect with Chris th...
May 10, 2024•29 min•Ep. 700
Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub . We last spoke with Marco in 2023. inf Connect with Marco on LinkedIn . Congrats to Famous Question badge winner mjbradford7 on How to re-render one component from another in React ....
May 07, 2024•26 min•Ep. 699
If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do . Check out the results of our last job market survey. Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn . Shoutout to stevenkucera , who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I create a global, mutable singleton? ....
May 03, 2024•23 min•Ep. 698
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? ....
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? ....
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? ....
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 .
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 ....
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 [email protected] or DM Ben here ....
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?...
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
