It’s already a busy AI-related start to the week with Anthropic shipping a new model. Buckle up for yet another week of exciting tech updates in the industry.
[paper] Learning from examples: AI assistance can enhance rather than hinder skill development. Is AI just giving developers shortcuts that result in a lack of skill, or can AI actually help us develop key skills? This paper looks at whether AI tools can increase intermediate term skills development.
[blog] Discover Google Cloud careers and credentials in our new Career Dreamer. This is so neat. Plug in some basic info, and get inspiration for the types of jobs that might appeal to you. And then get a link directly to open roles!
[blog] Reimagining development with intent-based engineering. “Intent” seems to be the next abstraction for software engineers. This post says that from infrastructure-as-code to IDPs, tools and platforms that apply “intent-based engineering” can fix the developer workflow.
[blog] When to give up. “Never give up” is a dumb mantra. Smart people quit things all the time. Of course there’s value in perseverance through struggle to reach a desired state. But there are clearly times where you’re wasting effort/time/money towards an undesirable end state. Quit.
[blog] Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get? This writer looks at why Kafka isn’t a great choice for low-volume job queues.
[blog] Using LLMs effectively isn’t about prompting. Sean’s point is to learn what models are good at, versus investing too much in prompting. I think there’s still a lot to good prompting, though.
[article] The Serverless Hype Is Over. Now What? First-generation serverless hype is definitely over. It was over-hyped with too few real-world use cases. But second-generation serverless, personified by Google Cloud Run, is absolutely the right abstraction for significantly more use cases.
[blog] Revisiting Docker Hub Policies: Prioritizing Developer Experience. Free is great, but free can change. Folks got grouchy when Docker changed pull limits in the Docker Hub. Now they’re opening back up again.
[blog] Announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s first hybrid reasoning model, is available on Vertex AI. Our friends at Anthropic just dropped an updated model that looks great. And it’s available right away on Google Cloud.
[blog] AI disruption – code editors are up for grabs. Your developers may have less loyalty to their IDE than any time in recent memory. James looks at this, and I’d love to see more folks chiming in on this idea.
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