What I Learnt This Week part 7
Week 7
This is my brain dump for this week on things I learned, tech-related or otherwise.
Tech
- The tech giant’s response to the blowup of AI and approach to deploying their models/systems for it have been very different and it’s interesting to note why these differences come up
- Apple: no open API for devs, closed off Siri and privacy first approach which led to them being behind the curve
- Google: pushed Gemini to the top of all searches with a search overview feature, bringing visibility. They also plan on swapping Google Assistant, which is used by so many people with a Gemini-based model
- Microsoft pushed co-pilot to integrate with GitHub, which is also their product and has seen mixed responses. IMO the case is only for boilerplate
- Amazon: Innovating with Bedrock for AWS, and Amazon Q. Since they’re more of a platform than AI research, they get a pass
- Meta: Meta ai on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook gives them good reach
- abstractions are so important, some that I’ve noted recently
- os is abstraction of hardware
- eks is abstraction of kubernetes
- kubernetes is abstraction for container management
- amazon cdk is an abstraction of amazon cloudformation
- builds should run pretty quick, at any company. The longer a build takes, the longer a developer would take to iterate quickly over changes. This applies both locally and to cloud deployments.
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A properly formed Git commit subject line should always be able to complete the following sentence: If applied, this commit will your subject line here
- example: If applied, this commit will “Fix edge case in data processing”
Otherwise
- Seattle is a city built on 7 hills, which poses significant city planning challenges. They had a quest to be a 15 minute city, which meant that every resident should be able to get to their office or meet their essentail needs through a short 15 minute walk, bike ride, or bus ride. The bus system is convinient and the OCRA card is usable everywhere, which makes it super easy to hop on and hop off. The light rail leaves more to be desired but at least it gets from the airport into the city. The monorail is just a tourist endavour.
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