A Quick & Crude Side-By-Side — Falcon-180b dropped on HuggingFace today, and is touted as the “new state-of-the-art for open models”. Most of use won’t be able to host it ourselves, but a nice chatbot demo is already available. Since I have a GPT4 account, thought it would a nice opportunity to compare some side-by-side prompts…

Supercharge Your Scientific Workflow in Minutes — Note this requires PyCharm Professional Edition. It feels like the world runs on Jupyter Notebooks. I am old enough to remember the ancient era of the IPython consoles and how the game changed with the advent of notebooks (fun fact — they were…

A Guide to Coping with AI for Anxious Software Developers — I wrote a polarizing article titled ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers in 10 Years in February. In the months since, it’s gone viral, being featured in Business Insider, spawning Reddit threads, and so on. The reception to the article was mixed, with comments leapfrogging from gracious to incredulous to outright nasty. …

Predicting The End of Manmade Software — Feeling down — anxious about this future? That’s ok! You’re not alone and it’s not all doom and gloom. Check out my follow-up article, “Nervous ChatGPT Will Take Your Programming Job?”. Update (4/26/23): This blog post was featured in Business Insider “The end of coding as we know it” Update…

This is not a real post — literally just tired of paying $30 copay every year when I get a cold, just to forget what the Dr. told me each time. 95% chance you have a virus not a bacterial infection. Bacterial infections are more isolated to one spot (ie. left cheek hurts) and other reasons. Take an antihistamine, so can double up on zyrtec or benadryl at night. Flonase (nasal steroid) twice a day (only take when sick) — 1 puff each nostril

Reading Between the Lines — The Facts OpenAI released ChatGPT Enterprise on 8/28/23 — available now. It includes standard enterprise features like single-sign on, private workspaces, SOC2 compliance, and private workspaces. Promises better speed & availability, longer input tokens (32k), and API credits beyond just GPT. Pricing is “contact sales” for full enterprise access. They also have…

You’re writing a Python script with an argparser and want to test it without mocks and hacks. You’ve been googling for 20 minutes. You’ve landed here. Go no further. Here is a template for a parser that takes a single argument myfile # coolapp.py import argparse as ap import sys def _parse(args=None) ->…

Sometimes you have k8s apps that only need a single replica. For example, a few dozen people only use a minor web service internally. However, when updating it, you still don’t want to have any downtime. K8s is weird about this, so there are plenty of StackOverflow questions. TLDR —…

Finally, a Company That Delivered — Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Grammarly. Last night I was watching TV and saw a commercial for GrammarlyGO, Grammarly’s new AI assistant. It caught my interest for two reasons: I never see Grammarly commercials so they are spending on this one. The commercial explicitly referenced Medium, Outlook, and other…