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Gergely Orosz is the author of The Pragmatic Engineer blog and spent over a decade working as an engineer and engineering manager at companies like Uber and Microsoft. His new book The Software Engineer's Guidebook [5] follows the structure of a typical career path of a software engineer, from intern or new grad through all the way to being successful at the staff/principal positions.
OpenAI has hosted its first-ever developer conference, almost a year after the company released ChatGPT to the public. This article provides an overview of the announcements from the event. The company plans to launch a GPT store later this month. It has introduced a copyright shield that defends customers from legal action. GPT-4 Turbo is now available. Anyone can now create custom versions of ChatGPT.
YouTube is testing a new 'play something' button on its mobile app that directs users to a random video. The feature directs users to both YouTube Shorts and full-length videos. It is unclear whether the feature takes into account users' watch histories when picking videos. YouTube has been working on the feature since at least around May.
Prophetic is a tech startup that aims to bring lucid dreams to a wider audience by developing a wearable device designed to induce the experience when desired. It uses ultrasound and machine learning models to detect when dreamers are in REM to induce and stabilize lucid dreams. Prophetic’s Halo device is slated for release in 2025. A render of the device is available in the article.
Apple is designing a battery with a new composition of raw materials. It aims to dramatically increase the silicon content to increase capacity and shorten charging times. One of the main issues with using silicon for batteries is that silicon expands during charging and powering. Apple is also researching the use of carbon nanotubes as a conductive material to improve battery performance. The new battery may be launched as soon as 2025.
Some of the new additions and improvements announced at OpenAI's DevDay include a new GPT-4 Turbo model, a new Assistant's API, and new multimodal capabilities. Pricing was reduced across many parts of OpenAI's platform. The new features are now available to customers. This article covers the update in detail.
Shoelace is a forward-thinking library of web components that works with all frameworks and CDNs. It is fully customizable with CSS, includes a dark theme, and was built with accessibility in mind. Shoelace features first-class React support and built-in localization.
Remote work is like a video game that pays. There are many similarities between video games and remote software engineering. This blog post looks at insights and lessons learned over almost two years of remote work. Remote work can be very rewarding, but it is not all rainbows and unicorns. Getting to know the people that you work with in person can help improve communication and collaboration immensely.
A Hacker News thread on developers' passions. Topics discussed include developing a life purpose, powerlifting, running, small city council politics, and mental health. A similar thread from exactly a year ago is linked to in the original post.
Pay transparency has not significantly altered average wage ranges listed in job postings, but more employers are including a range of cash benefits, perks, and flexibility options.
While Bumble now has a clear line of succession, the move leaves Slack in a bit of a pickle.
xAI's PromptIDE is a development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research.
This post breaks down the setup for a one-person SaaS tech startup, from load balancing to cron job monitoring to payments and subscriptions.
Even Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, one of the five US companies currently worth over a trillion dollars, wouldn't do it all over again if he had the chance.
Braid was a company that designed and shipped a type of multi-user financial account called a money pool - it took two and a half years for the company to find product-market fit, after which it grew - but the company was dead just a few months later.
GPT-4 Turbo at a fraction of the cost with 128k context, custom GPTs, and vision in the API.
xAI has released PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research.
Red Pajama v2 has been released. It is 2.5x larger than the dataset used to train GPT-4. There is no code data, but it does have multilingual data from 5 languages and covers an impressive breadth. Importantly, much of the deduplication work and some heuristic filtering has already been done.
Gaussian Mixture Solvers enhance diffusion models, resolving the speed-quality trade-off in image synthesis and setting new standards for image detail and clarity.
The DADA system integrates 3D data with RGB images for superior surface anomaly detection, outperforming traditional methods in speed and accuracy without extensive training datasets.
CLLM4Rec synergizes large language models with ID-based systems, elevating recommendation precision through advanced pretraining and novel language embeddings.
Consistency decoder for the VAE dramatically improves performance for generated images for latent diffusion models. They released one for Stable Diffusion. Open source!
TopicGPT revolutionizes topic modeling with LLMs, producing more relevant, interpretable topics and allowing for user-guided topic refinement.
FACTOR applies fact-checking techniques to digital media, offering a novel, effective tool for detecting unprecedented deepfake attacks without prior training.
Generative AI's increased sophistication has led to a rise in business applications, with Insider Intelligence predicting that 25% of US internet users will use it monthly by 2023. The technology's capacity to communicate in natural language has increased accessibility, extending its use beyond tech-savvy individuals. Although still in the early stages, businesses like Yext and numerous startups are already leveraging generative AI for various tasks such as marketing content generation, customer service, product design, and data analysis.
We’ve already seen it with investors not willing to invest in companies that are just wrapping GPT but now it is even more clear. With the ability to query uploaded PDFs, a whole swath of startups just got wiped off the map.
This post breaks down how AI, creators, and scaled distribution tactics like virality and community-led growth are generating huge momentum across these vectors.
Sam Altman announced significant usage milestones for ChatGPT at OpenAI’s developer conference, with the platform reaching 100 million weekly users and engaging over two million developers, including a majority of Fortune 500 companies.
Microsoft's Xbox is collaborating with Inworld AI to provide AI-powered tools for game development, focusing on narrative and character creation to facilitate and enrich the game design process.
Personalize every single email at any scale and in any language.
Proof Group, a firm that was involved in the successful Celsius bid, is also bidding to relaunch FTX, which collapsed almost a year ago. The defunct exchange has received several bids, now down to a shortlist of three. The final decision is anticipated by mid-December, with options including selling the entire exchange or partnering with another exchange to utilize existing user accounts. Restructuring FTX has been a meticulous process, involving the addressing of issues such as claims, token lockups, and compliance matters.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has continued to work on regulations for fiat-backed stablecoins, including those issued outside the UK. In a recent paper, the FCA highlighted the potential of stablecoins for efficient payments, but also noted previous crypto custody failures such as Celsius and FTX. The regulator proposed requirements for issuing fiat-backed stablecoins and custody activities. The FCA also suggested that issuers should guarantee specific redemption timeframes for users.
This article outlines "Edge," a new programming language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The author describes various shortcomings in the current dominant language, Solidity, and explains how Edge could offer more developer control, clearer abstractions, and promote emergent structures over imposed ones. Edge aims to redefine the abstraction stack by combining the flexibility of low-level languages like Huff and ETK with high-level type systems, opening up new possibilities in smart contract development.
BaseFold is a system that leverages Foldable Linear Codes for an enhanced approach to Polynomial Commitment Schemes. Offering a more balanced tradeoff between prover time, proof size, and verifier time, BaseFold outperforms other systems like FRI and Brakedown on varying metrics based on the complexity of the polynomials. It maintains performance across a wider variety of field choices and allows for faster prover times in specific applications.
This thread lists 10 crypto-chart and data accounts you should be following. The recommendations cover different areas of crypto, from trading to trend analysis to macro outlooks. Following these accounts can help you get a better picture of all the different factors affecting the crypto landscape. The thread even includes a bonus account for you to follow.
OT Sea, a platform facilitating P2P OTC trading within the crypto market, is becoming a popular alternative for traders seeking to avoid the pitfalls of liquidity pools. It offers solutions for issues such as token taxes, whale tracking, and low liquidity risks. It also has features such as Mini-Markets and MEV Protection that are aimed at enhancing trading capabilities and user safety. OT Sea has gained traction lately, growing 10x in the past week.
This thread provides an interesting viewpoint on PFP NFTs and how they have fared throughout the bear market and this recent uptrend. To this user’s surprise, PFP NFTs have rebounded more than expected as the broader crypto market has seen an upturn. He lays out some reasons why established PFPs seem to be showing strength: no viable alternatives were launched during the bear market, the liquidity within existing collections acts as a moat, and collection holders have built personal brands on top of existing PFP NFTs and are hesitant to make changes if they have gained traction with that brand.
This article discusses the potential for web3 front-ends to become highly valuable businesses, particularly over the next few years. It emphasizes the significance of proprietary AI, orderflow auctions, and branding in building a strong front-end presence. Frontend businesses that can successfully leverage these elements, specifically those targeted at the retail market, will be able to monetize both their user traffic and their orderflows effectively, potentially making them some of the most valuable entities in web3.
The biggest challenges facing the SEC were analyzed in a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General of the SEC. These include issues around recruiting crypto talent due to SEC employees not being able to hold any cryptocurrencies.
This post outlines some thoughts on how the market conditions right now in crypto seem to mirror those that existed in November 2019. It explains how asset declines are expected to spark rate cuts and stimulus leading to a subsequent bull run.
This post outlines proposed changes to FastLane on Polygon, which currently mitigates MEV issues like sandwich attacks and centralizes profits to validators but risks stake centralization.
FTX is seeking court approval to sell $744 million in trust assets to aid in creditor repayments and streamline the sale process amidst bankruptcy proceedings.
Midjourney’s latest update launched on the evening of Nov. 1, 2023. Called the style tuner, it is arguably the most important update yet for enterprises, brands, and creators looking to tell cohesive stories in the same style. That’s because the new style tuner allows users to generate their unique visual style and apply it to any and potentially all images generated in the application going forward.
In an update to how YouTube caters to teenagers, the company today said it's changing how certain types of content are recommended to teenagers. Specifically, content recommendations for videos determined to be problematic if repeatedly put in front of teens—videos related to body image and non-contact social aggression—will be limited.
According to leaked details, Apple will include the Action Button on the base iPhone 16 model. In contrast to the current physical button on the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, the new button will provide feedback via the Taptic Engine. A second button called the Capture Button may be introduced soon. It will be capacitive and, as its name implies, could contribute to the camera system.
It happens to the best of us — we lose our spark, feel stuck, become risk-averse, and lose our passion. It's a bit like a long-term relationship that's run into the sand. However, rather than a relationship with a person, it's our relationship with creativity itself that's in trouble. When that happens, talk to others, find the type of work that motivates you, get involved in a community, and stop comparing yourself to others to help find that spark again.
The Drumming Gorilla ad from Cadbury was one of the world's best ads, mainly due to its emotional impact on audiences. Using AI in a designer's workflow today can be challenging because these tools are biased towards standardization. Cadbury's epic ad offers valuable lessons to designers on how to take advantage of the enhanced efficiency provided by artificial intelligence without sacrificing creativity.
Every business is an app, and every app feels the same because every designer has the same resume, follows the same process, graduates from the same program, uses the same tools, and scrolls the same Dribbble feed. Design is now about tangibles, measurables, and deliverables instead of intuition and ingenuity. Even companies that claim to be "design-driven" extensively use dashboards and metrics to guide their designers.
Vectorpea is an online vector editor that lets you edit Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, and Sketch files.
UXsniff is an AI-powered tool that autonomously analyzes session recordings and identifies abnormal click patterns.