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In my experience AI (frontier models) sometimes does weird stuff that needs human review. Not that’s incorrect but sometimes overly complex language or weird use of language.
Bento works with a predefined schema, so you cant use any HTML library (Such as Mermaid.js) if you need it in your presentation.
But then again, often you dont need it.
Just created a presentation with Bento... I do think Reveal.js gives you more raw power. But I like bentos single html page design, and you can easily edit it manually. You cant do that with Reveal.js
There are a lot of claims in the article but not a lot of hard data. In the end they still don’t know if the data is correct.
Good luck with your glutes allergy.
The weird thing for me is the prompt optimization loop? Why not fine tune the model instead of AI generating the prompt?
This could have been a SKILL
Two big red flags here.
First git itself is distributed and built for scale.
I guesss they mean “gitlab” instead of “git”. But such a huge mistake would never go unnoticed.
Are they going to rebuilt git??
Secondly: a big rebuilt of monolith to services. Firstly there is nothing wrong with a Modulith. Secondly “rebuilt” will cause a lot of busy work without immediate value for customers.
And first of all: this announcement is done due to the stock price not AI The productivity increase with AI is inflated because they want their stock price up.
Sell Gitlab stock while you can. The leadership team has no clue what they are doing.
Sadly non engineering leaders buy into this dogma. AI is very usefull but in my experience doesn’t 10x if you don’t YOLO it.
And xAI now gets 10B of more revenue on their income statement.
Perfect financial statement boosting for the IPO which in turn will pay back these costs.
At least that’s the bet.
Technical design docs are higher level than code, they are impricise but highlight an architectural direction. Blanks need to be filled in. AI Shines here.
Formal specs == code Some language shine in being very close to a formal spec. Yes functional languages.
But lets first discuss which kind of spec we talk about.
Also, we only allow engineers to commit (agent generated) code. Designers just come up with suggestions, engineers take it and ensure it fits our architecture.
We do have a huge codebase. We are teaching Claude Code with CLAUDE.md's and now also <feature>.spec.md (often a summary of the implementation plan).
In the end, engineers are responsible.
AI is similar to a person you dont know that does work for you. Probably AI is a bit more trustworthy than a random person.
But a company, needs to let employees take ownership of their work, and trust them. Allow them to make mistakes.
Isnt AI no different?
Claude checks multiples websites, reads them all, and answers my question.
You don’t want to be burning tokens and large files will give diminishing returns as is mentioned in the Claude Code blog.
In Claude Code you can invoke an agent when you want as a developer and it copies the file content as context in the prompt.
Both in software hardware and handing.
https://youtu.be/P-H-GJaGiUg?si=eq8YWy8gyJ5YS99X
I think it even surpasses Chinese brands.
It does not specify how “agentic” systems interact with each other. Depending on what you mean there.
Anybody with experience can give me a tip of the best way to - evaluate - manage prompts - trace calls
I see a lot of people here saying one is better than the other. But it depends on your use case and company size.
GRPC is a lot more complex to start using and hides internals. However it has some major advantages too like speed, streaming, type safety, stub generation. Once you have it in place adding a function is super easy.
The same can be said of OpenAPI. It’s easier to understand. Builds upon basic REST tech. However JSON parsing is slow, no streaming and has immature stub generation.
From my experience a lot of users who use OpenAPI only use it to generate a spec from the handwritten endpoints and do manual serialization. This is the worst of the two worlds. - manual code in mapping json to your objects - manual code mapping function parameters to get params or json - often type mapping errors in clients
Those engineers often don’t understand that OpenAPI is capable of stub generation. Let alone understand GRPC.
GRPC saves a lot of work once in place. And is technical superior. However it comes at a cost.
I’ve seen OpenAPI generated from routes, with generated clients libs work really well. This requires some time to setup because you can hardly use OpenAPIGenerator out of the box. But once setup I think it hits a sweet spot: - simple: http and json - can be gradually introduced from hardcoded manual json serialization endpoint (client and server) - can be used as an external api - allows for client lib generation
But it really depends on your use case. But to dismiss GRPC so easily mainly shows you have never encountered a use case where you need it. Once you have it in place it is such a time saver. But the same holds for proper OpenAPI RPC use.
However my inner engineer hates how bad the tooling around OpenAPI is, the hardcoded endpoints often done instead of server stubs, and the amount of grunt work you still need todo to have proper client libs.
But as the article mentions OpenAPI is also an RPC library with stub generation.
Manual parsing of the json is imho really Oldskool.
But it depends on your use case. That’s the whole point: it depends.