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July 21, 2023

Big Technology Podcast - Meta’s New AI Model, AppleGPT’s Potential, Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber — With Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box. He joins us for a special Friday episode to break down a major week of AI news. We cover: 1) Meta's incentives to open source its Llama 2 AI model. 2) Whether people actually want to interact with chatbots, no matter how well they perform. 3) Why enterprise might be the clearest use case for Ai. 4) Why Apple is developing LLMs and where the project might go. 5) Whether AI companies can actually build moats around their products. 6) Is ChatGPT getting dumber? 7) Levie's view on AI and jobs 8) AI's influence on creativity.

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July 21, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Beyond Bots – Bryce Crawford, Meow

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.

Guest: Bryce Crawford, CTO & Co-founder at Meow

Questions:

Remind the audience what Meow does.
How long have you been a customer of Ntropy? When did this come into play?
Last we talked about passing on revenue to customers in banking. It’s hard given the tight margins. How is Meow thinking about that today?
Is the “software layer” on top of finance going to make this better? How?
Generative AI and LLMs are the talk of the town, are you seeing any use cases? Or, are you working on an in-house solutions?
There are many new decisions you have to make as a CTO. How does you prioritize around what will make a difference in the market?
What matters to your customers.... are people expecting finance to be magical or simply reliable?
What is the real impact of AI on finance going to be in your eyes?

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July 21, 2023

The Stack Overflow Podcast - What it’s like to be on the Python Steering Council

Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He splits this work 50/50 with his day job as a senior software engineer at Bloomberg.

An astrophysicist by training, he did his PhD on rotating black holes.

Whether you’re a new contributor or a seasoned veteran, the Python Developer’s Guide is a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python.

Pablo is on LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.

Kyle is also on Linked, Twitter, and GitHub.

Shoutout to Inquisitive Badge winner trever for asking well-received questions on 30 separate days.

July 20, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 Bonus: Matthew O’Riordan, Ably

Matthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft brought him to the UK, where he saw more opportunity. Outside of tech, he likes adrenaline sports. He was a competitively skydiver, participating in free style routines, free-fly and vertical formation. He pointed out that it's a great way to clear your head, cause you can't think about anything else when you're skydiving.

Matt unearthed interesting things as he was building prototype after prototype to solve real time experiences. He wanted to build a new generation of real time communication developer tools, that provide collaboration opportunity... and that just work.

This is the creation story of Ably.

Big Technology Podcast - The Declining Half-Life Of Social Media — With Eugene Wei

Eugene Wei is a tech analyst and product veteran, with time spent inside Meta, Amazon, and Hulu. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of social media's longevity, considering how the decay of mainstay platforms changes the incentives to participate. Tune in for a in-depth discussion of social media's longterm trajectory, examining the TikTok algorithm, Threads, Twitter under Musk, and the puzzling persistence of Facebook. In the second half, listen to an engaging lightening round, where Wei comments on the state of his former employers and his longtime friendship with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.

July 19, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 Bonus: Ali Nichols, Getaway

Ali Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and is pretty stoked to have achieved that. Outside of tech, she loves to spend time with her family and friends, hiking, golfing or boating. In fact, when she and her significant other were living in San Fransisco, they boat a sailboat and were obsessed with the craft. But now that the live in Miami, they've switched over to power boating, to better enjoy all that Florida water has to offer.

Ali and her Co-founder previously worked together at a real estate startup, specifically in the single family rental space. They both really struggled with the idea that their friends were priced out of the market, and wanted to make opportunities available to more people.

This is the creation story of Getaway.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations

DoIT’s sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to use the cloud, free of charge, with the big cloud providers paying the bills.

You can check out Sascha’s writing on machine learning on his Medium blog.

Connect with him on LinkedIn or subscribe to his YouTube channel

July 18, 2023

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 E14: Dan Lines, LinearB

Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been into the creation of things, being the kid in high school burning and selling CD's, building computers on the side, or creating an early sports streaming platform, before streaming was a thing.

Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains.

This is the creation story of LinearB.

Python Bytes - #344 AMA: Ask Us Anything

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/344

July 18, 2023

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects

Cat’s research centers on the socio-cognitive factors and processes that help people learn and succeed. In her role as director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab, she studies what makes software teams thrive and shares that research with the community so teams can learn from her findings.

In a recent report, the Dev Success Lab explored how visibility can encourage higher-performing teams and better business outcomes.

Pluralsight is an education platform for software developers. Pluralsight Flow, their software delivery intelligence platform, is designed to eliminate developer friction and wasted time.

Cat is on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is Kent Kostelac, who gave a terrific answer to One-line if-else in C#.