Prompt Engineering (For Everyday Tasks) Doesn’t Have to Be So Complicated by thuwarakesh

Here’s your quick checklist to get high-quality responses every time. Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash I recently read an article that says newer models have only a slight performance gap between them, but our ability to communicate with them is drastic. Prompt Engineering is the language of Gen AI. Yet, we pay

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Product vs. Engineering: How to manage an antagonistic relationship by trcarney

In any software company, two fundamental forces battle to drive progress: Product and Engineering. Product is responsible for defining the vision, understanding customer needs, and pushing for new features and changes to current ones. Engineering is responsible for executing on that vision in a way that is performant, reliable, scalable, and maintainable. Right now, the

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Ask HN: Engineering Managers by armini

How do software engineering managers measure their team's performance? Any tools, tips, metrics or suggestions? I'm trying to manage a high performing group & eager to learn from other peoples experience.

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The Iceberg of Engineering Incident Costs by t0e

I’ve long been fascinated with the metaphor of an iceberg to describe a problem who’s true magnitude is obscured beneath the surface. If you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, when ice freezes it decreases in density. This allows the solid ice to float, partially, atop the water with only a small fraction of it exposed.

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Debugging my life as an engineering manager with ADHD by lukaszkorecki

I was always a software engineer first, and I never planned (or wanted) to become a manager. Dealing with software seemed much easier than dealing with people. Working on hard technical problems felt natural, but having to deal with emotional matters and nuances in communication always bothered me.However, when I co-founded my previous company, among

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A better prompt engineering lib – guidance built for js by cryogenicplanet

[ system`You are a helpful and terse assistant.`, user` I want a response to the following question: ${params.query} Please answer the question as if experts had collaborated in writing an anonymous answer. `, assistant`${gen(“answer”)}`, ] ); const result = await agent( { query: `How can I be more productive?` }, { render: true } //

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Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches by archagon

Media caption, Watch: DeSantis’s failed Twitter streamBy Peter Hoskins and Annabelle LiangBusiness reportersAn engineering chief at Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of Ron DeSantis’ US presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.Foad Dabiri tweeted: “After almost four incredible years at Twitter, I decided to leave

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Prompt Engineering Is for Transactional Prompting by tim_sw

I’ve noticed a consistent point of confusion whenever prompt engineering is discussed and I believe the confusion stems from two distinct ways of using a language model: interactive prompting and transactional prompting. Prompt engineering is primarily about transactional prompting, and a considerable amount of confusion or negativity arises when an individual tries to apply it

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New Book on Software Engineering for Data Scientists by atreadw

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Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode by ingve

You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you still use the

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