Daily Reading List – December 13, 2023 (#223)

Today was all about Gemini and Duet AI for me. We made both available, with Duet AI for Developers reaching GA. I even did a little follow-along demo for it.

[blog] Bringing Gemini to Organizations Everywhere. It’s here and it’s great. Folks can now try Gemini out for themselves for free. There’s no place to get better models and better experiences for AI.

[blog] Gemini, Google’s most capable model, is now available on Vertex AI. Build apps today that use generative AI and our latest and greatest models. Exciting stuff.

[blog] Announcing General Availability of Duet AI for Developers and Duet AI in Security Operations. I’ve been working on this all year, and it’s very satisfying to see it released for everyone to use. Our AI dev assistance service is global, fine-tuned for cloud developers, and free to use until February 1st 2024. The partner integrations might be the most underrated aspect.

[article] With AI Studio, Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots based on its Gemini model. Anybody with a Google account can try this out. Give it a whirl.

[article] Implementing OSSF Scorecards Across an Organization. Security scorecards for your software? Seems like a useful idea. Chris looks at how to do it.

[article] Google’s Duet AI Launches GenAI across Full SDLC in the Cloud. The team at The New Stack chatted with me and Megan about what generative AI might mean to the entire software development lifecycle.

[article] Google’s GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available and will soon use the Gemini model. Yours truly was quoted in this one, which may not be good for anyone. Here too.

[article] It’s Official: Platform Engineers Earn More Than You. So many companies are creating platform engineering teams and folks are being paid well for the work. Make sure you look at your “why” and “how” before throwing people at it!

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Author: Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, use, and enjoy Google Cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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