🍔🧠 Bye Bye JavaScript: Google Sheet's New Language

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

• 📚 Google Sheets accelerates with WasmGC, ex-Amazon VP shares promotion secrets, Singleton pattern: 7 implementation methods

  🗞️ Figma unveils AI design tools, OpenAI enhances AI truthfulness, Amazon’s ChatGPT and Temu competitors

  👨🏻‍💻 Quick byte: Go's concurrency model simplifies parallel programming tasks

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Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week

Mindset: Embrace creativity as your competitive edge; it's the hallmark of true leadership.

Example: Apple's iPhone revolutionized mobile technology, setting them apart as industry pioneers.

Action item: Dedicate 15 minutes today to brainstorm unconventional solutions to a current challenge.

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The Rabbit Hole
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (effective prompting)
How to Perform Prompt Decomposition

GITHUB REPO (Claude)
A framework for Claude Opus to intelligently orchestrate subagents

ESSENTIAL (sabotage)
Simple Sabotage for Modern Software

ARTICLE (performance)
Always measure one level deeper

ESSENTIAL (lots of files)
The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google

ARTICLE (jensen’s wisdom)
15 Life And Work Principles from Jensen Huang

ARTICLE (gRPC—)
The Bad Parts of Working with gRPC

ARTICLE (cache)
How does a cache really work?

ARTICLE (DDD)
A Better Way To Code: Documentation Driven Development

The Weekly Digest
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time

✨ Figma Unveils New Generative AI Tools for Designers (3 min)

Brief: Figma introduces new features at the Config conference, showcasing a redesign and innovative generative AI tools accelerating design processes through AI-generated content creation.

😮 Amazon Readies Low-Cost Fashion Store to Counter E-commerce Giants (5 min)

Brief: Amazon prepares to launch a budget store section for cheap fashion and lifestyle products, challenging China-based e-commerce rivals Temu and Shein with affordable unbranded items directly shipped from China to U.S. consumers in 9-11 days.

🤖 Instagram Launches AI Studio for Chatbot Versions of Creators (2 min)

Brief: Instagram introduces "AI Studio" enabling creators to develop chatbot versions of themselves, initially in the US, for messaging, to be marked as "AI" with potential inaccuracies.

🤖 Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT (1 min)

Brief: Amazon is developing its consumer-focused AI chatbot that would compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and could be revealed later this year.

🧠 OpenAI's New Tool to Enhance AI Truthfulness (3 min)

Brief: OpenAI introduces a tool called CriticGPT to improve AI truthfulness through reinforcement learning from human feedback, aiming to align AI goals with human values.

🧑‍🦱 Character.AI Optimizes Inference for Global Language Models (3 min)

Brief: Character.AI implements innovative techniques to significantly reduce attention keys and values cache size, enhancing efficiency and scalability for large language models' inference process.

The Quick Byte
One coding tip because you’re technical after all

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

Go's concurrency model, based on goroutines and channels, offers elegant solutions for concurrent programming.

Wen?

• Implementing parallel processing in data pipelines

• Managing multiple I/O operations concurrently

• Building high-performance network servers

Why?

• Provides a simple and efficient way to handle concurrency

• Allows for easy communication between concurrent processes

• Scales well for handling large numbers of concurrent operations

The Job Feast
A fresh cheese job board if you’re looking for a change

• Senior Software Engineer @ Agentio

• Lead Software Engineer @ Counterpart

• Full Stack Software Engineer @ Stan

• Senior AI/Machine Learning Engineer @ Gather

• Software Engineer @ Basis

Burp-A-Laugh
The most important meal of your day