South Software Content Suggestion #11
What I read and watch this week (Friday, October 4, 2024)
We’re back this week with new content to enjoy! Here I review content I consumed in the last week, so you can decide whether to go for it or not.
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Books
Same as last week. But this is a book to read slowly and ponder over it. It contains so many insights about the human mind that will accompany you for the rest of your life.
Articles
The AI hype (like many others in the past) have been fostered by discounting current issues with the promise of a great future. However, the issues are certain, the promises are… well, promises. It is a good idea to talk about reality.
A few weeks after the Y Combinator founder wrote about “founder mode”. Maybe the founders don’t know always better.
Delivering Continuous Delivery, continuously
An old article about how The Guardian reorganized to allow for continuous delivery. Why they did it, how they did it, and the challenges they had to face. Quite old but still interesting.
It is considered by many one of the best software engineering articles ever. Just go and read it.
The hidden costs of the AI boom
Some issues related to LLMs are not linked to the way they function but to the resources they exploit and the societal changes they bring. This article goes uses data to go into them.
Videos
Rob Pike is, among other things, one of the creators of the Go programming language. In this video he explains the strong idea that lead its design.
Podcasts
1 hour of interesting discussion about NLP with Python and much more. From SpaCy before LLMs to the current ecosystem. Listen to this if you need inspiration on building products that work with text.
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