I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
It is very exciting to see more and more people pushing towards operational simplicity in web applications. Your app and a database should be everything you need for production and Phoenix + Postgres is still the best stack for starting out in dev and running in prod.
Our Person of the Week is a Design Systems expert on a mission to help designers adopt new technologies in the design systems space. Drumrolls, please, for... Samantha Gordashko!
Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @SamIam_Designs!
#smashingcommunity
Congrats @SamIam_Designs, really proud of you and your talk on Bridging the Gap between Design and Development, One Token at a Time at #SmashingConf
You're amazing.
This is the 2024 listing of DJ sets at Burning Man )'(
Every year a playlist is created of all the music that can be found shared on SoundCloud from the playa.
https://t.co/02UG8o8TjX
p.s. Change the year in the URL for a different year of the burn.
@itspatmorgan False - Software would be better if engineers knew how much goes into good design. I would argue that a lot of bad software is due to a disconnect with designers.
Further, designers that complete some software classes become even better designers.
🚀Introducing new (synthetic) RLHF Dataset Nectar and new open model Starling-LM-7B-alpha🚀
🌟 Model & Dataset Highlights:
📊 Scores 8.09 in MT Bench: Surpassing all existing models except OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo.
📚 183K Chat Prompts + 7 responses in Nectar: With 3.8M pairwise comparisons for comprehensive analysis, responses collected from all existing models, ranking labeled by GPT-4.
We train the reward model using our latest K-wise loss, and fine-tune the model Openchat 3.5 (based on Mistral-7B) with online RL. Checkout our blog for more details! https://t.co/2uL8cInyDd
🔗 Available Now:
📁 On HuggingFace: Our dataset Nectar, reward model Starling-RM-7B-alpha and language model Starling-LM-7B-alpha are ready for use! https://t.co/74SvXoivIl
💬 LMSYS Chatbot Arena: The model is supported for direct chat and anonymous human comparison in Chatbot Arena by the amazing LMSYS Organization. Try it out here! https://t.co/OnrB1fO5o4
📑 Upcoming Releases:
✨ Detailed Code & Paper: Stay tuned for in-depth insights and methodologies.
🌐 Continuous Updates: We will soon release a more stable version. Follow our journey in advancing AI safety and training techniques.
#AI #LanguageModel #Starling7B #LLM
Today my #designtokens obsession became my dream job. 🤩 Super excited to be joining the Tokens Studio team (officially) to help the community better understand this powerful tech!
I'll still be sharing my non-tokens, nerdy designer pro-tips as per usual. 😜
RE: Modes as a #designteamofone 🤬
Note that @figma only supports 1 mode for Drafts, and 4 modes for Pro/Org plans. If you need more modes, you will have to upgrade to Enterprise.
Fun fact, you need. min 3 licences to upgrade to enterprise with Figma.
Cool... Cool... NOT!