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

PLUS: Amazon's ChatGPT 🤖, Figma AI Changes Everything ✨, Promotion 101 From a VP 🫴🏻

Jul 01, 2024

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Food for Thought 🧠

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

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs

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

Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

Calculations in Google Sheets were initially done on the server, then on the client in JavaScript, and now on the client in WebAssembly Garbage Collection. This case study explains how and why.

Singleton Design Pattern and 7 Ways to Implement It

Written by Ashish Pratap Singh

AlgoMaster Newsletter

Singleton Design Pattern and 7 Ways to Implement it

In software development, we often require classes that can only have one object. For example: thread pools, caches, loggers etc. Creating more than one objects of these could lead to issues such as incorrect program behavior, overuse of resources, or inconsistent results…

2 years ago · 40 likes · 7 comments · Ashish Pratap Singh

How to get promoted: Lessons from an ex-Amazon VP

Written by Jordan Cutler

High Growth Engineer

How to get promoted: Lessons from an ex-Amazon VP

Hi all, Jordan here 👋 Today, we’ll dive into the top career lessons from an ex-Amazon VP, Ethan Evans. Ethan is one of the most prolific teachers for engineers and managers. He’s hired 1000+ people, led teams of 800+, and has driven 25+ Principal Engineer & Director promotions…

2 years ago · 126 likes · 13 comments · Jordan Cutler

How to Plan your Growth

Written by Fran Soto

Strategize Your Career

How to plan your growth

This week it will be a short one. But long enough to trigger some thinking in you. Some people advocate hard for living a balanced life. Pay attention to work but only a little. Take care of your health without big indulgences… That’s a great message to ensure people don’t grow too imbalanced…

2 years ago · 31 likes · 2 comments · Fran Soto

💾 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.