[Dev Catch Up #47] - OpenAI's Stargate Project, DeepSeek-R1, React Query, TypeScript Enums, self-adaptation LLM framework, AI bash commands, and much more.
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Must Read
I came across this paper, which spoke about Process Reward Models. Process Reward Models (PRMs) emerge as a promising approach for process supervision in mathematical reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, these developments face significant challenges in data annotation and evaluation methodologies. Read more about it from the paper.
DeepSeek recently launched its first-generation reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, and it is already crushing leaderboards. It matches OpenAI’s o1 and outperforms o1-mini across math, code, and reasoning tasks. Learn more about the R1 family of models from here.
OpenAI, with a consortium of other industry vets, is planning to invest around $500 billion dollars over the next four years in the US to build AI infrastructure. They are doing this through the Stargate Project. Learn more about it from here.
As a developer, you must have come across or heard about React Query to build pretty amazing frontend projects. This article describes React Query in detail.
In the first half of 2024, the tech community was caught off-guard by the Devin storm. The promo video showed Devin doing the tasks of a software engineer on their own from human commands. But is it really that great? Know about a detailed user experience from Hamel & Answer AI team.
OSS Highlight of the Week
This week, we look at an open-source IDE that comes as an extension for VSCode and Cursor, interesting? Radon IDE turns your code editors into fully-featured IDEs for developing React Native and Expo apps. Get a glimpse of it from the media below and check it out from the official GitHub page.
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Good to know
After LLMs came into being, programming alongside them hasn’t been the same. It has become fun, and developers have become productive. This article documents the progress of a developer using LLMs while programming.
Write AI bash commands with abc. It is a command line tool that converts natural language instructions into shell commands using LLM models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic. Check the tool out from the official website.
If you use TypeScript often or just know enough about it, you must have come across enums. Here is a detailed article about TypeScript Enums, their use-cases, and the alternatives we have beside them.
Better observability in a production setup can be very useful because it can help find critical issues and do an in-depth analysis on them. This article helps you get an idea on how to build observability with Google Cloud services.
Lastly, we will take a look at some of the trending scoops that hold a special mention for the community.
Notable FYIs
As a dev, linters are something you have come across quite often. For those wondering, it is a tool that programmatically checks source code for stylistic consistency, potential errors, or departures from a predetermined set of rules. However, Developers sometimes find linters challenging to use, and learn why, from this article.
Heard of Astro yet? It is a web framework well-suited for content-driven websites that has made great progress throughout 2024 with exceptional features and has climbed upto the expectations of frontend developers. This article sums up the entire significant happenings for Astro in 2024.
Node.js, Bun, and Deno have varying Fetch and HTTP/2 support, which may either be opt-in or outright unavailable. This post tells you about the issue in detail.
After a long time, I found something exciting on OpenTelemetry integration and it involves Elastic and Nginx. Elastic integrations are designed to simplify observability by providing tools to ingest application data, process it through Ingest pipelines, and deliver prebuilt dashboards for visualization. Here is a detailed article on setting up an OpenTelemetry integration for the NGINX Ingress Controller.
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