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New Anthropic research: Natural Language Autoencoders. Models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. The numbers—called activations—encode Claude’s thoughts, but not in a language we can read. Here, we train Claude to translate its activations into human-readable text.

Step inside Project Genie: our experimental research prototype that lets you create, edit, and explore virtual worlds. 🌎

Anthropic just dropped Free AI courses on: - Prompt Engineering - Building agents - Best practices for Agentic Coding - Collaborate with AI systems .... and so much more! 9 best guides you don’t want to miss:

Why have you been stuck at the Senior Eng. level for so long? After sitting on 50+ Staff+ promotion committees and performance calibrations as a Director from 2019–2024, here are the patterns I've identified & clustered that show up again and again. 🔽

🚨 BREAKING: HuggingFace just dropped 9 free courses to level up your AI skills. From LLMs to agents, vision to gaming, audio to 3D and it's all open-source, all hands-on, and all free. Here’s what’s inside ↓

We wrote up what we've learned about using Claude Code internally at Anthropic. Here are the most effective patterns we've found (many apply to coding with LLMs generally):

Lately it does seem like the requirements for engineering managers have swung from "you just do people stuff" wayyyy over to "you should not only be technical, but also write code and review PRs every day" --which is nuts. A good counter: @carled9/the-engineering-manager-role-ba31b3959535" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@carled9/the-e… by @spaceblenny

If you currently or at any point in the future will build APIs for public consumption, please read this entire series by @paul_asjes, it's awesome. dev.to/stripe/common-…

A GitHub repo of presentations by companies running Kafka in production github.com/dttung2905/kaf…

@annaarthoe I agree its not a good picture . But what he said about meta/instagram/tiktok is not necessarily wrong

'Having a Growth Mindset' from @CodeNewbies Podcast: codenewbie.org/podcast/having… #CodeNewbie

How To Update Your Status During Standup Like a Senior Engineer by Edward Huang in @BttrProgramming betterprogramming.pub/how-to-update-…

@nontequiero Eu não lembro, mas minha mãe conta que uma vez fecharam uma c&a da vida pq eu e meus irmãos tinhamos sido sequestrados. Estavamos dentro das araras tb xD

A 5 years+ tech lead said they shard a database to scale but then he failed to answer this question by LORY link.medium.com/yaIgZU3j6yb

This is quite the paper! It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town. Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442…

@CapistranoNobre @soma_81597 Boa! Combinado com cqrs, ou ter um snapshot dos eventos seria uma boa também. Gostei do artigo pq trouxe os padrões de forma simples e com exemplos fáceis de entender.

@davicdsalves @soma_81597 Muito bom,só chamaria a atenção p/o event sourcing, sempre fico com pé atrás em relação a ele, tb 😅 1/2

Top 10 Microservice Architecture Design Patterns Every Developer Should Learn by @soma_81597 link.medium.com/wALwtKtnRyb

You may have seen me rant about other deploy-induced atrocities, but this one deserves special emphasis. 🌺 Deploys 🌸 Are 🌼 The 🌹 WRONG 🌷 WAY to release new features, toggle configs, or otherwise make changes that impact user experience. honeycomb.io/blog/deploys-w…

Top 10 Books for Mastering the Art of Building Software at Scale by Dmitry Mamyrin klaviyo.tech/top-10-books-f…