Inflection AI Introduces Agentic AI Models
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Inflection AI has introduced Inflection 3.0 and a commercial API aimed at addressing the issue of uniformity in AI model outputs caused by Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF). By incorporating employee feedback into its RLHF process, Inflection tailors AI models to align with a company
TikTok’s AI Tool Rivals Meta, Google
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TikTok has launched Smart+, its AI-powered advertising tool designed to compete with Meta’s Advantage+ and Google’s Performance Max. Smart+ automates ad creation, targeting, and optimization, offering marketers the flexibility to either manage campaigns themselves or let the AI take full control. Th
Squarespace Unveils AI-Powered Design Tools
24 days ago
Squarespace has introduced Design Intelligence, a new website builder that integrates generative AI tools, aiming to enhance the design process rather than overwhelm users with generic content. Chief Product Officer Paul Gubbay emphasized the importance of balancing AI automation with customization,
How Amazon is Rethinking Human Evaluation
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Hey, it’s Devansh 👋👋 In my series Breakdowns, I go through complicated literature on Machine Learning to extract the most valuable insights. Expect concise, jargon-free, but still useful analysis aimed at helping you understand the intricacies of Cutting-Edge AI Research and the applications of De
Python 3.13 has been released
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Python 3.13 has been released. It includes a new interactive interpreter, experimental support for free-threaded execution, and a JIT compiler.
What Is the History of the Use of 'Foo' and 'Bar' in Source Code Examples?
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The terms 'foo' and 'bar' in code examples originated from the WWII military acronym 'FUBAR' (F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition). The popularity of 'foo' and 'bar' in code likely stems from their association with this military jargon.
Trust Your Developers, Verify Your AI-Generated Code with Sonar
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It's important to ensure that the code generated by LLMs goes through proper quality checks before going into production. Sonar's code assurance workflow ensures that AI-generated code meets the highest standards to produce software that is secure, reliable, maintainable, and of unparalleled quality
Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story
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This article explores various techniques for managing retries, including retry budgets and circuit breakers, and analyzes their effectiveness through simulations. A developer learned about the pitfalls of implementing retries in a microservice architecture. He started by adding retries to solve a tr
How Do HTTP Servers Figure Out Content-Length?
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HTTP servers determine the 'Content-Length' header, which indicates the size of the response body in two ways. When the response is small enough to fit in a server buffer, the length is calculated and sent directly. For larger responses, HTTP employs 'chunked transfer encoding', dividing the data in
Running Clang in the Browser Using WebAssembly
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Clang, a compiler front end for C/C++, can now be run directly within a web browser. This is done using the Wasmer JS SDK, which allows compiling C code to WebAssembly. This development opens up possibilities for online IDEs to adopt the SDK and enable users to compile and run C programs within thei
Frontend teams are wasting time and resources by constantly chasing the latest frameworks, which are usually destined to become obsolete. Instead, they should focus on mastering core web technologies and building deep expertise in their current frameworks. This approach offers greater career longevi
Web Components Are Not Framework Components — and That's Okay
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Web Components are not meant to replace frameworks but rather to complement them. There are two ways to think about components: generalizable elements that extend HTML (where Web Components excel) and project-specific reactive templating components (where frameworks still hold an advantage). The Web
React on the Server Is Not PHP
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Server-side JavaScript, specifically using React on the server, is not a return to PHP. While the concept of server-side rendering may seem similar to the old PHP approach, the underlying principles and tools have evolved drastically to offer unified stacks rather than having separate stacks for fro
Cut Your QA Cycles Down from Hours to Minutes
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If slow QA processes bottleneck you or your software engineering team and you're releasing slower because of it — you need to check out QA Wolf. QA Wolf's AI-native approach gets engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage and helps them ship 5x faster by reducing QA cycles from hour
sq is an open-source data wrangling tool that allows users to inspect, query, join, import, and export data. It supports a wide range of data sources including common SQL databases, Excel XLSX files, CSV, TSV, JSON, JSONA, and JSONL formats. It also provides various output formats like INSERT to SQL
Jazz is an open-source toolkit that makes building real-time, collaborative applications easier by providing a single abstraction for distributed state, replacing the need for traditional APIs, databases, and message queues. It uses CRDTs and public-key cryptography to enable real-time, cross-device
Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
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A developer successfully virtualized iOS on Apple Silicon Macs through a combination of kernel patches and system modifications. The challenges encountered during the process included signature verification and binary incompatibilities between iOS and macOS. The developer used undocumented features
Optimizing Postgres Table Layout for Maximum Efficiency
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Postgres adds padding to data for efficient disk access through a process called 'data alignment.' Misaligned columns can increase the size of tables and indexes, leading to wasted disk space and slower performance. This article provides practical examples and code snippets showing how to optimize t
The Nine Node Pillars are a set of guiding principles for building maintainable Node.js applications that includes advice like not blocking the event loop and always using Node LTS versions in production.
Developers should prioritize scaling down their software first, starting small and only scaling up when necessary, as modern hardware makes it possible to run most applications efficiently on a single server.
Gleam's type system and functional programming approach significantly increases productivity, especially in fast-growing codebases.
How to Fetch Data in React
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There are various methods for fetching data in React applications, including server-side fetching with React Server Components, client-side fetching with React Query, hooks, and tRPC.
THE PINTEREST 2024 HALLOWEEN TREND REPORT (4 MINUTE READ)
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6 brands to derive inspiration from, including Blank Street's collaboration with Melissa's Wardrobe, Rhode's launch teasers, and Wendy's Vanilla Frosty launch campaign.
U.S. CONSUMERS ARE FED UP WITH EXCESSIVE TEXTS AND EMAILS (8 MINUTE READ)
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40% of U.S. consumers unsubscribe from digital marketing communications at least once a week, citing excessive messages as a primary reason. Many feel overwhelmed by the volume, with 56% opting out if they receive 4+ messages from a brand in a month. This fatigue is driving a shift in how consumers