September 3, 2024
This month, we’ll give AI a rest. Alex Russell has finished an excellent series of posts titled “Reckoning.” It’s a must-read for web developers. If you want to understand why our networks and laptops are much faster than they were 15 or 20 years ago, but the web is slower, it comes down to one thing: bloated JavaScript. Alex offers a way out.
The last XOXO festival is over, and I regret having missed it. XOXO has been a gathering place for experimental artists and others who live and work online. Judging from the many comments on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter, it was great. A key theme was building networks that are healthy, and where people are respected. Look for the videos when they’re posted—I will certainly have them in next month’s trends.
And we have a rare legal section with items on AI regulation, Telegram, and open source licenses.
Artificial Intelligence
- For the curious: Anthropic has published the system prompts for its Claude models. It’s interesting that Claude prefers short responses; it avoids words like “Certainly”; and it can break a longer task into parts, executing each part separately.
- Many developers report huge time savings when using generative AI to understand or update legacy code. Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO, has claimed that the company saved 4,500 developer-years by using AI to upgrade 30,000 Java applications from Java 8 to Java ...
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