Coder's Jungle

Retrieval augmented generation: Keeping LLMs relevant and current

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a strategy that helps address both LLM hallucinations and out-of-date training data.

The company making it easier to turn your coffee machine into a robot

Ben welcomes back friend of the show Eliot Horowitz, cofounder and CTO of Viam, who’s also the cofounder and former CTO of MongoDB. They talk about the current status of robot assistants, why Viam is hardware-agnostic, and building robots to train cats (good luck with that).

Is AI enough to increase your productivity?

Being an effective coder with a code generation tool still requires you to be an effective coder without one.

A Message from Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO Stack Overflow

Over the last 15 years, we’ve built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists. During this time we’ve experienced years filled with opportunities and challenges. This year is no different.

Chatting with the GM of CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered pair programmer for AWS

Ben talks with Doug Seven, a director of software development at AWS and the GM for CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding companion, about his career building dev tools and how he hopes AI will give people more bandwidth for creative work.

Integrating AI tools into your workflow

For AI tools to be useful to your team, they have to fit into your existing workflows.

Meetings are the worst. Let’s reduce their blast radius

The home team talks with Matt Martin, cofounder and CEO of Clockwise, which offers AI-powered time management and scheduling tools.

Subatomic speed, math misadventures, and the biggest fraud trial in history

Ben and Ryan talk about the work that earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and how it might make computers way faster. Plus: California’s efforts to transform how math is taught, Unity’s new fee structure, and the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.