Easy and Cheap AI for Developers, Reddit API Changes and Sherlocking

We’re back after a brief break for a busy month of May, and we’re here to talk about some pretty cool stuff happening in the developer world. Outlaw took vacation and can remember nothing, Joe introduces us to Sherlocking, and Allen discovered what all the fuss was about with Chat GPT as a software developer. If you find some of this interesting, come hang out with us on Slack and share your thoughts!

News

• Orlando GDG Meetup: June 20th – Joe will be speaking at this event!
  https://www.meetup.com/gdg-central-florida/events/293874671/

Topics

• More talk about AI – Cheaper AI API access for developers
  • https://sdtimes.com/data/monster-api-offers-cost-reduction-through-decentralized-computing/
  • https://monsterapi.ai/
• AI finds/creates a new sorting algorithm
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/143gskm/google_finds_faster_sorting_algorithm_using_deep/
• Making sense of data at scale – AWS Glue & Data Quality
  • https://aws.amazon.com/glue/
  • https://sdtimes.com/data/aws-glue-data-quality-delivers-high-quality-data-across-data-lakes-and-pipelines/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/glue/features/data-quality/
• Allen talks about his first real experience with ChatGPT to create the baseball app mentioned previously
• Chat GPT now has a mobile app
  • https://apps.apple.com/app/openai-chatgpt/id6448311069
• First time we mentioned Azure ML?
  • https://www.codingblocks.net/episode69
  • https://studio.azureml.net/
• Reddit API Changes
  • Reddit has long had a free API
  • Apollo dev is curently making 7b requests per month, requiring $20mm a year – $2.50 /month (price announced is .24 / 1000 calls)
  • Many of Reddits largest communities are planning on going private to protest
    • https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749188/reddit-subreddit-private-protest-api-changes-apollo-charges
  • Open letter from moderators to Reddit
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/
  • Infographic made to show a slice of the apps affected by this change
    • https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_4yrnne/styles/image_widget_bvsh04ztkd4b1.jpg?format=pjpg&v=enabled&s=9d434a974fe9117c22327f7d5d62c5d8640a689a
• Moderation Strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers
  • https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-strike-stack-overflow-inc-cannot-consistently-ignore-mistreat-an
• Can you be Sherlocked? (When another company makes changes that devalue 3rd party products in their ecosystem)
  • The term refers to a built in macOS 8 app named “Sherlock”
  • A 3rd party company built an app named “Watson” for $29 that improved on Sherlock in many ways
  • Apple updated Sherlock to include the popular Watson features, and since it was free and built in…bye bye Watson
  • Techcrunch published an article of apps getting “Sherlocked” after the most recent WWDC
  • This is a consideration for any organization that is dependent on anybody else’s ecosystem
  • All the things Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2022
    • https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/all-the-things-apple-sherlocked-at-wwdc-2022/
• Q: Is Apollo an example of Sherlocking?
• Q: Can you think of other examples of Sherlocking?
  • TweetDeck
  • Twitpic
  • Zynga
  • Resharper
  • Game Engines (like…every feature)
• Adobe software that could fake a person’s audio after listening after 20 minutes
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/jpgkxp/after-20-minutes-of-listening-new-adobe-tool-can-make-you-say-anything
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco
• Remember Windows Sysinternals Tools – how about the creator?
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich

Resources we Like

• Photoshop’s AI generative fill
  • https://dataconomy.com/2023/05/29/photoshop-ai-generative-fill-examples/

Tips

• Joe has caught on to the latest Windows Terminal
  • Sorry ConEmu and Cmder, Microsoft is adding ai support to Terminal via github…also Windows 11 support?
    • https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23732464/microsoft-windows-ai-terminal-github-copilot-integration-build
    • https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23732454/microsoft-ai-windows-11-copilot-build
    • https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/
• Outlaw loving a new Unit Test book
  • Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns: Effective testing styles, patterns, and reliable automation for unit testing, mocking, and integration testing with examples in C#
  • https://amzn.to/3qDnu3P
    
• Allen shows that Jetbrains is bringing out even more tools to help the developer space – this time for QA
  • Jetbrains Aqua
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/aqua/
    • Supports Playwright and Cypress now!

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