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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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PERHAPS NOT BORING TECHNOLOGY AFTER ALL

The recurring concern, that large language models will push technology choices towards the tools best represented in their training data, making it harder for new tools to break through the noise, doesn't really hold up anymore. New models have large enough context lengths that they can consume a lot of documentation before they start working on a problem. Most agents work just fine in existing codebases that use libraries or tools too private or new to feature in the training data. Developers are still free to choose whatever tools they want to use and are not restricted to using the ones LLMs are most familiar with.

AFTER FALLING FAR BEHIND THE REST OF INDUSTRY, BLUE ORIGIN CREATES NEW STOCK OPTION PLAN

When Jeff Bezos launched Blue Origin, he knew that the company would not meet investors' expectations for return on investment over a typical investing horizon. Decades later, the company is still not operationally profitable, though recently, it has made impressive strides and seen financial returns from the sale of engines and commercial launches. To continue its growth and attract top talent, Blue Origin will begin granting stock options to employees this spring. The new program is structured to provide opportunities for liquidity events that will enable employees to convert vested stock options into realized value. More details about the program will be released during a company-wide meeting on April 17.

AMAZON TELLS FCC TO BIN SPACEX'S MILLION-SATELLITE DATACENTER DREAM

Amazon has criticized SpaceX's application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic. It wants regulators to reject the application, which it says is a speculative placeholder rather than a complete application under the Commission's rules. Amazon also raised concerns about satellite interference and environmental objections. Analysts say that SpaceX's plan of putting datacenters in space is 'peak insanity' as running spaceborne facilities would be uneconomical and could never satisfy terrestrial demand for compute power.

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