Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value" https://bit.ly/4jL5IlN

AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink https://buff.ly/juc0gA3

"While 75% of company leaders thought their AI rollout over the past 12 months has been successful, only 45% of employees said the same. "

Smithery https://buff.ly/NSpTkyz

"Smithery is a platform to help developers find and ship agentic services."

What's wrong with AI-generated docs https://buff.ly/xAp81oX

let me tell you what’s wrong with docs and docs sets entirely generated by LLMs.

Behold the "yegge memo" of the #genAI era.

"Before asking for more Headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI." and "Everyone means everyone" -- Tobi Lutke, CEO #Shopify

Why the US Navy wants to build a fully autonomous satellite https://buff.ly/42oKRz1

Navy researchers are testing a fully autonomous satellite designed to detect and characterize objects in space.

Mystery of the Crystal Palace’s 190-day construction solved

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/engineering/mystery-of-the-crystal-palaces-190-day-construction-solved/

"British researchers say Crystal Palace was the first building known to have used standard screw threads, which are now commonplace and essential to modern construction and engineering." -- #ImmaPerfetto

How to (and how not to) design REST APIs

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/How-to-(and-how-not-to)-design-REST-APIs

"In my career, I have consumed hundreds of REST APIs and produced dozens. Since I often see the same mistakes repeated in API design, I thought it might be nice to write down a set of best practices. And poke fun at a couple widely-used APIs." -- #JeffSchnitzer

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

"'Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose,' the team's paper concluded. 'Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style.' Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong." -- #ThomasClaburn

Slow Adoption of APIs Plagues HR Technology

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/technology/pages/slow-adoption-apis-plagues-hr-technology.aspx

"Because IT and HR have been viewed as cost centers rather than revenue producers, getting resources to update legacy technologies and facilitate API integrations can be difficult, especially in smaller and midsize companies with more limited resources." -- #DaveZielinski

How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS

https://www.micahwalter.com/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws/

"If you are running your own Mastodon server on AWS (or really anything at all on AWS) do yourself a favor and head over to AWS Budgets and set one up for yourself."

PSA: Twitter’s API changes may make it difficult to log in to your favorite games

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584689/twitter-api-genshin-impact-arknights

"Two extremely popular online games have warned that players who use Twitter to log in may be affected by Twitter’s pending API changes."

Kicking off the OpenAPI track at #apidaysParis with "State of OpenAPI" from Isabelle Mauny, Board Director at OpenAPI Initiative