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April 2023

Autonomous AI Agents: Auto-GPT, BabyAGI, AgentGPT, HeyGPT, LangChain, Marvin, and more AI Tools
New video, blog post and code repository demonstrating LangChain, Marvin and autonomous AI agents
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Anna Geller
Time to try something new!
I'll be continuing the theme of "cutting through the noise" but in a different way — through video content and simpler products.
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Anna Geller
Summary: What The Heck Is the Metrics Layer by Pedram Navid
How dbt, Looker and Lightdash implemented metrics layer and trade-offs behind it
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Anna Geller
Summary: The SaaS Metrics That Matter by Ethan Ruby and David Sacks
Only a handful of metrics really matter incl. ARR, NRR and MAU.
Summary: When programming is gone, will we like what's left? by Forrest Brazeal
The demand for people called “software engineers” will increase. The question is what those people will do.

March 2023

Summary: The powder keg of the modern data stack by Benn Stancil
Life would be much easier if we had a single source of truth for what's happening across the data stack.
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Anna Geller
Summary: We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change by Erik Bernhardsson
Despite the large number of cloud providers and their services, we still write and run code locally
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Anna Geller
Summary: Keep Your Identity Small by Paul Graham
People can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity
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Anna Geller
Summary: The cloudy layers of modern-day programming by Vicki Boykis
“The actual logic of our program becomes almost invisible, buried among services and APIs.”
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Anna Geller
Summary: The data OS by Benn Stancil
Convenience might be worth more than modularity
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Anna Geller

February 2023

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