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- Meet GPT-3: the New York Times brings OpenAI's language model to the mainstream
Cade Metz's NYT feature introduces GPT-3 to a mass audience, reigniting debate over AI that writes and codes.
- Does GPT-3 Understand Anything, or Just Sound Like It Does?
As more developers get API access, GPT-3's fluent code and prose reignite the debate over pattern-matching versus real reasoning.
- GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA's DMCA Takedown Backfires
GitHub restored youtube-dl and launched a $1M developer defense fund after the EFF pushed back on RIAA's Section 1201 takedown claim.
- Porting Apps to Apple Silicon: What Rosetta 2 Actually Feels Like
Developers are putting Rosetta 2 and universal binaries through their paces days after Big Sur and the M1 Macs shipped.
- .NET 5.0 Arrives and Finally Merges Framework With Core
Microsoft ships .NET 5.0, C# 9, F# 5, ASP.NET Core, and EF Core, unifying .NET Framework and .NET Core into one cross-platform runtime.
- Apple's 'One More Thing' Event: What to Expect From Its First Mac Chip
Apple's Nov 10 virtual event is expected to unveil the first custom Arm-based Mac chip, kicking off its two-year Intel transition.
- Inside the Invite-Only API: What Developers Are Quietly Building With GPT-3
GPT-3's private beta API is still closed off, but a growing group of developers is already shipping chatbots, copywriting tools, and code generators on top of it.
- What to Expect from .NET Conf 2020: The Great Unification
.NET Conf 2020 (Nov 10-12) should ship .NET 5, C# 9, and F# 5, finally merging .NET Framework and Core into one runtime.
- Is AI Actually Writing Code Yet?
A look at Kite, TabNine, and GPT-3's promise for autocomplete-style AI coding tools, and how far they really are from writing features unsupervised.
- RIAA's DMCA Takedown of youtube-dl Roils Developers
The RIAA got GitHub to pull youtube-dl overnight, and developers are calling it a bad-faith abuse of DMCA Section 1201.
- Why TypeScript Is Winning Over More Teams
TypeScript keeps climbing GitHub's language rankings as teams trade JavaScript flexibility for compile-time safety and better tooling.
- What Developers Are Building With GPT-3 (and Why the API Feels Complicated)
A look at the chatbots, code helpers, and writing tools developers are prototyping on GPT-3's private beta API, and the tension around Microsoft's exclusive license.
- Python 3.9.0 Is Out, and the Dict Union Operator Is the Small Thing I'm Most Excited About
Python 3.9.0 lands with dict union operators, a new PEG parser, and PEP 585 generic collection types, as Python 3.5 hits end-of-life.
- Python 3.9 Lands This Week: Dict Merges, Cleaner Type Hints, and a Farewell to 3.5
Python 3.9.0 ships October 5 with new dict merge operators and PEP 585 generics, right as 3.5 hits end-of-life.
- Beyond the Demos: What GPT-3 Can (and Can't) Actually Do
A look at the flood of September GPT-3 demos and the growing debate over how much of it is real reasoning versus pattern matching.
- Deno at Four Months: A Serious Node.js Alternative?
Four months after its 1.0 release, developers are seriously weighing Deno's TypeScript support and permissions model against Node.js.
- Huawei Hands Developers a Beta of HarmonyOS 2.0
Huawei opened a HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta at HDC 2020, its clearest move yet toward a phone OS that doesn't depend on Android.
- .NET 5 Nears Launch: Microsoft's Plan to Unify .NET
With Preview 8 out and GA set for November 10, .NET 5 aims to merge .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Xamarin into one platform.
- Inside the GPT-3 API Gold Rush
OpenAI's invite-only GPT-3 API is quietly fueling a summer of wild demos, from code generators to chatbots to AI Dungeon.
- What August's AI Debates Tell Us About the Hype Cycle
GPT-3 went from miracle to bloviator in a single month, and that whiplash says more about us than about the model.
- Firefox 80 Ships With the Option to Make Its PDF Viewer Your System Default
Firefox 80 lets its built-in PDF reader take over as the OS default, alongside a blocklist refresh and WebRTC congestion-control gains.
- TypeScript 4.0 Lands, and Variadic Tuple Types Are the Star
TypeScript 4.0 ships with variadic tuple types and labeled tuple elements, unlocking sharper typing for function arguments and array structures.
- Why Systems Programmers Keep Reaching for Rust
Rust's memory safety without a garbage collector keeps pulling engineers away from C and C++ for performance-critical code.
- WebAssembly Is Quietly Becoming a Big Deal
Figma, Autodesk, and the WASI standard are turning Wasm from a curiosity into a serious complement to JavaScript.
- GitHub Codespaces and the Case for Ditching Your Local Dev Setup
GitHub's new Codespaces beta spins up a full cloud VS Code from any repo, and it's part of a bigger 2020 push toward ephemeral dev environments.
- Low-Code and No-Code Tools Are Quietly Eating Enterprise Software
Business teams are building their own internal apps and automations without a dev team, and it's changing what enterprise software even means.
- Which Remote-Work Habits Will Outlast the Pandemic for Dev Teams
Zoom, Slack, and GitHub usage keeps climbing as engineering teams go fully remote — here's what's likely to stick around.
- GPT-3's Private Beta Has Developers Buzzing
OpenAI's invite-only API for GPT-3 is flooding Twitter with demos of code, poetry, and chatbots generated from plain-English prompts.
- Developers Start Building on Top of GPT-3
Since OpenAI's private beta opened, devs are shipping chatbots, SQL generators, and code tools on GPT-3 — and arguing about what it actually means.
- A First Look at What's Coming in Python 3.9
Python 3.9 hit feature-complete beta in May, and the changes are small but genuinely useful for everyday code.