Chris Lattner helped create Swift, Clang, and LLVM. Now CEO and cofounder of Modular AI, he tells the home team how they built Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers that can be thousands of times faster than Python. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/21/mojo-the-usability-of-python-with-the-performance-of-c/
Semantic search and augmenting LLMs have sent everyone turning their text into vectors. But where do you store all that vector data? https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/20/do-you-need-a-specialized-vector-database-to-implement-vector-search-well/
This is part two of our conversation with Replit CEO and founder Amjad Masad. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/18/forget-agi-let-s-built-adi-augmented-developer-intelligence/
The home team talks with Replit CEO and founder Amjad Masad about the democratization of coding tools; why Replit prioritized a mobile coding app; and the technical challenges of a real-time, multi-user IDE. This is part one of our conversation. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/14/multiplayer-programming-on-mobile-a-chat-with-replit-ceo-amjad-masad/
The conventional metaphor for career success is a ladder, but there are a lot of problems with this narrative. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/13/how-to-land-the-manager-to-ic-pivot/
How does our emphasis on imposter syndrome keep us from having bigger, harder conversations about how to improve life for developers? https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/11/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-imposter-syndrome/
Ben talks with startup founder and advisor Elizabeth Zalman about what makes the founder-investor relationship unique in the world of capital, what changes with technical founders, and what VCs are really looking for. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/11/founder-vs-investor-what-vcs-are-really-looking-for/
The home team chats with Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs—and humans—learn to speak. Plus: how AI is restoring a stroke survivor’s ability to talk, concern over models that pass the Turing test, and what’s going on with whale brains. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/07/computers-are-learning-to-read-our-minds/
A series of amazing breakthroughs are allowing paralyzed people to speak and emote. With each passing month, we get closer to a brain-computer interface that might unlock some of the deepest mysteries of our grey matter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/07/ai-brain-computer-interface-deep-implant-speech/
A series of amazing breakthroughs are allowing paralyzed people to speak and emote. With each passing month, we get closer to a brain-computer interface that might unlock some of the deepest mysteries of our grey matter. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/08/30/ai-brain-computer-interface-deep-implant-speech/
