Episode 400: Prompt Engineering

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs…

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400

Runner-up Titles

You don’t want to toy with food poisoning
Do you put all your eggs in one basket?
The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT
This is just Bing
Bullshit as a Service
It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine
Bad dog
The answer to every question is ChatGPT
Linux under the desktop

Rundown

Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t?
Earnings and Outlook

Cloud Giants Update
Red Hat OpenShift making money
Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing.
Cloud Earnings
The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway
Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December
FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft
The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS

A.I.

OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete
Google has developed a music-making AI bot
Why does ChatGPT constantly lie?
Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders
OpenAI API
Infrastructure-as-Code Generator
Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing
Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight

Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool
Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (The Cloudcast Podcast)
This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year

Relevant to your Interests

Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings
Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left
$NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend
Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile
HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement
Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality
How We Learned to Be Lonely
Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce
AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region
Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments
Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling
VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps
LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups
Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog
Slack's second chance
Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world
U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology
Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls
Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns
Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299
ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy
Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K
FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals
Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots
Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now?
Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors
1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app
Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO
Artifact
GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository
Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System
Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction
Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer
Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs
Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Visa vs. AMEX
Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch
Coté ponders IBM what-if in AI
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
Broadcom’s VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers
PagerDuty Layoffs Affect 7 Percent Of Workforce
Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game
Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs
The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking
Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People
Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff
The Newer Geography of Jobs

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Prompt Engineering

Episode 400

February 10th, 2023

59 mins 7 secs

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About this Episode

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs…

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400

Runner-up Titles

• You don’t want to toy with food poisoning

• Do you put all your eggs in one basket?

• The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT

• This is just Bing

• Bullshit as a Service

• It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine

• Bad dog

• The answer to every question is ChatGPT

• Linux under the desktop

Rundown

• Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t?

• Earnings and Outlook

• Cloud Giants Update

• Red Hat OpenShift making money

• Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing.

• Cloud Earnings

• The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway

• Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down

• The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession

• Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December

• FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft

• The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS

• A.I.

• OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete

• Google has developed a music-making AI bot

• Why does ChatGPT constantly lie?

• Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders

• OpenAI API

• Infrastructure-as-Code Generator

• Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing

• Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

• Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight

• Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool

• Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (The Cloudcast Podcast)

• This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year

Relevant to your Interests

• Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings

• Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left

• $NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend

• Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile

• HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement

• Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality

• How We Learned to Be Lonely

• Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism

• Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce

• AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region

• Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments

• VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps

• LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups

• Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog

• Slack's second chance

• Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One

• Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world

• U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology

• Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls

• Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns

• Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299

• ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy

• Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K

• FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals

• Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget

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