Daily Shaarli

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May 6, 2023

Why engineers need to be bored. - by John McBride

This is another way to approach the question of having slack in your schedule. This is necessary, and probably at scale in the organization (as implied by this article).

Chris James -HTMX is the Future

This is indeed looking more and more like a viable and worthwhile option for web applications.

Be a thermostat, not a thermometer

Interesting ideas in there. It's not enough to pick up that something is off in a conversation. It's better to influence things to defuse the tension. Clearly not that easy to do, will require quite some practice.

Introducing MPT-7B: A New Standard for Open-Source, Commercially Usable LLMs

And yet another set of open source models. This is really democratizing quickly.

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

Even the giants are slowly moving back from microservices. DHH has a very cruel way to point it out, still that's true. Let's hope people realize the mistake it was in term of complexity.

Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama-INCITE family of models including base, instruction-tuned & chat models — TOGETHER

Truly open source models are pouring in. This is showing more transparency and I hope it will lead to better uses even though some of the concerns will stay true.