This startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests
In this episode we chat with Saumil Patel, co-founder and CEO of Squire AI. The company uses an agentic workflow to automatically review your code, write your pull requests, and even review and provide opinions on other people’s PRs. Different AI systems with specific capabilities work together as a mixture
Read moreHow to learn data visualization to accelerate your career
Do you love clicking around interactive maps? Frustrated you can’t get your spreadsheet charts to match your vision? If you’re drawn to data and visual design, learning the fundamentals of data visualization could be a fruitful way to bring value to an employer—and grow your career. By becoming handy with
Read moreBreaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
Read moreFitting a line without an intercept term
The other day I was looking at how many lumens LED lights put put per watt. I found some data on Wikipedia, and as you might expect the relation between watts and lumens is basically linear, though not quite. If you were to do a linear regression on the data
Read moreIntroducing Staging Ground: The private space to get feedback on questions before they’re posted
Learn about the workflow designed to help new askers improve their questions on Stack Overflow.
Read moreHow to prevent your new chatbot from giving away company secrets
This week we chat with Kamakshi Narayan, Director of Product Management at SnapLogic, who is focused on how APIs can apply fine-grained controls for privacy and governance to the LLM-powered AI apps vacuuming up our data.
Read moreSolutions to tan(x) = x
I read something recently that said in passing that the solutions to the equation tan x = x are the zeros of the Bessel function J3/2. That brought two questions to mind. First, where have I seen the equation tan x = x before? And second, why should its solutions
Read moreChris’ Corner: A Variety of Ways to Fail
I’ve done a decent amount of accessibility work in the past few months, largely thanks to a nice fellow who uses JAWS and seems to enjoy our sessions together testing various bits of CodePen, old and new. I use classic tools like the axe and the WebAIM tools to find
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