Friday 7th March’s issue is presented by Augment Code |
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Most coding AI struggles with complex codebases. Not Augment Code. |
Augment is the only AI coding assistant that: |
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Trusted by engineering teams at Datastax, Lemonade, GoFundMe and Kong to tame complexity and maintain flow. |
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— Will Larson |
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tl;dr: “If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just requires different tactics to do so.” |
CareerAdvice |
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— Kellan Elliot-McCrea |
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tl;dr: “For many leaders the hardest job they have is getting comfortable with not knowing. It is natural to feel like you have to understand everything about the area that you lead. My boss expects me to be able to answer an arbitrary question on the spot, in order to accomplish that I need to be an expert on an increasingly large number of topics. I accomplish this by asking for more and more detailed information from my team, perpetuating this omniscience expectation. There are two obvious problems with the omniscience expectation (and one non-obvious problem).” |
Leadership Management |
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— Carl Case, Markus Rabe |
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tl;dr: “This post breaks down the challenges of inference for coding, explaining Augment’s approach to optimizing LLM inference, and how building our inference stack delivers superior quality and speed to our customers.” |
Promoted by Augment Code |
LLM AI Management |
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— Gergely Orosz |
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tl;dr: Gergely covers: (1) US: entry-level software engineers. (2) US: senior software engineers. (3) Best-paying US companies by tier. (4) UK numbers, tiers, and best-paying companies. (5) India numbers and tiers. (6) Note on equity. |
Compensation CareerAdvice |
“We make, not to have, but to know.” | | | | — Alan Kay |
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tl;dr: “Architectural patterns provide proven solutions to common problems encountered in distributed systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Among these patterns, some patterns stand out as fundamental for managing data and communication flow effectively, which we will see in this article.” |
Architecture DistributedSystem |
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— Brian Morrison |
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tl;dr: When used correctly, a waitlist isn't just a sign-up form - it's a powerful market research tool. Learn how to communicate directly with potential customers by integrating your waitlist with a newsletter, providing you a simple channel to inform your user of platform updates and to gather feedback about your product. |
Promoted by Clerk |
Guide |
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tl;dr: “A technical overview of the internals of TigerBeetle. It includes a problem statement, overview, motivation for design decisions and list of references that have inspired us.” |
LanguageDesign |
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— Andrej Karpathy |
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tl;dr: “The example-driven, practical walkthrough of Large Language Models and their growing list of related features, as a new entry to my general audience series on LLMs. In this more practical followup, I take you through the many ways I use LLMs in my own life.” |
AI |
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— Mitchell Hashimoto |
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tl;dr: I've always personally defined the "as code" suffix in "X as Code" to mean "a system of principles or rules". This is in contrast to the popular interpretation of "as code" to mean "as programming." |
DevOps |
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Most Popular From Last Issue |
27 Fundamental Techniques For Software Architects — Patrick Roos |
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Notable Links |
Agents-json: Translate OpenAPI into LLM tools. |
Arch: AI-native proxy for agents. |
Clever Algorithms: Nature-inspired programming recipes. |
Fish-shell: User-friendly command line shell. |
Requestly: HTTP Interceptor for browsers. |
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How did you like this issue of Pointer? 1 = Didn't enjoy it all // 5 = Really enjoyed it | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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