The DevKit Dispatch
The most interesting tech newsletter on the web.
Welcome everyone to the first edition of the DevKit newsletter,
For most of you who are reading this newsletter, you might be hearing of DevKit after a lot of months. DevKit has come a long way in the past 9-12 months. The product got redesigned, we got early traction, and the DevKit team grew to over 10 members.
The purpose of this newsletter is to share with you the latest things happening in the programming world, some educational resources, great memes, and a lot of dope information. Feel free to email us or reach out to us on any social media for any corrections or suggestions anytime. We hope you like it :D
Fun Fact
Did you know that the first ever computer virus was created in 1971 and was called "The Creeper"? It was created by Bob Thomas and was meant to be a harmless experiment, but it ended up infecting ARPANET, the precursor to the internet.
Tech News
Musk has assembled a team to create artificial intelligence that can compete with ChatGPT.
Elon Musk is reportedly forming a new lab to create an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT and has approached AI researchers, including Igor Babuschkin, to join the team.
LLaMA: A new language model by Meta to compete with chatGPT.
LLaMA's 7B-65B parameter language models are trained on publicly available data, outperforming GPT-3 and competing with top models. All models are available for research.
Meta has revealed its intentions to integrate a chatbot with AI capabilities into both WhatsApp and Instagram.
Meta's generative AI team will integrate AI personas powered by LLM into WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. The team will create creative tools and chatbots that can assist users.
A new CEO of Twitter?
Twitter staff are speculating that The Boring Company CEO, Steve Davis, could replace Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter. Davis helped orchestrate Twitter's recent layoffs and is a close associate of Musk. Musk plans to step back from Twitter over time.
Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
Finally developers can now integrate ChatGPT and Whisper models into their apps and products through our API.
Reads and Resources
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
OpenAI's change in tone and mission from nonprofit to profit-driven, with recent emphasis on AGI development and corporate partnerships, has raised concerns over transparency and positive human impact.
Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years
Meta, parent company of Facebook, faces challenges in getting people to pay more for the upcoming Quest 3 headset. It plans to release the more accessible Ventura headset in 2024 and advanced La Jolla headset with photorealistic avatars. It also aims to develop AR glasses and wrist devices to replace smartphones by 2027.
DTSTTCPW – What does it mean?
DTSTTCPW, a slogan from the XP camp, means to use the least complicated solution that actually solves the problem at hand. It requires the ability to add complexity if needed and passes all tests.
Counter Strike 2 launching?
Valve is reportedly working on a successor to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive called "CS: GO Source 2," which will feature improved graphics, tick rate, and matchmaking. However, nothing is official yet.
Building a Read-Eval-Print-Loop in Go (REPL + Caching)
Let's build a command-line Pokedex in Golang! In this project you'll learn all about HTTP requests, REPLs, caching, and more!
Trending GitHub repositories 📈
A platform where people can share their stable diffusion models.
A browser interface based on Gradio library for Stable Diffusion.
The V programming language.
Developer Stories 🎙️
The story of Kanishk Tiwari is a source of inspiration as he managed to achieve great success despite starting his coding journey relatively late in college. In this podcast, you can learn about his experience of securing an excellent job placement at Avalara and subsequently making a successful transition to working at Amazon.
Summary:
Kanishk describes his journey of exploring different career paths before finally settling on software engineering. He started with graphic designing, then moved on to CAT (Common Admission Test), but eventually found that coding was a better fit for him.
After landing a job at Avalara, he continued to prepare and eventually received job offers from several big companies, including Flipkart, Paytm, Swiggy, Visa, Goldman Sachs, and Amazon. He chose to join Amazon and is currently working on the Amazon Pay team.
Kanishk mainly codes in Python and follows channels like "need code" and "Tech dose." He also solves random questions from various websites to track his progress. DSA is not much incorporated into their current job as they mostly have to work with pre-built libraries, packages, or best practices of their organisation.
When it comes to hiring, companies look for good DSA skills, internships, projects, coding profiles, achievements, and broader knowledge. The speaker does not think a master's degree is necessary to get into big companies, as many people without a degree are working at such companies. The market is accepting of new talent, and the degree is not mandatory if the candidate has enough knowledge to do the job.
Thanks for reading.
Until next week,
Team DevKit
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