Off Script Hey! Presents

Returning podcast guest Jack Sails joins James and Josh to discuss developments in large language models! Over this episode they discuss how LLMs are being used, Open AI and its current offerings, tips on how to use them and any concerns they may have around this new technology.


[Recorded 19th April, 2023]



02 - Metaverse & Crypto
03 - Online virtual spaces
04 - Chat GPT evolution
05 - GPT-4
06 - Apple audiobooks
06 - SIRI + LLM
07 - A GPT does not understand you
09 - What are LLMs and how do they work?
10 - 1 word = 1 token
11 - What is temperature in the context of LLMs?
13 - OpenAI Playground
14 - Clippy on crack
16 - Should we be concerned about the flaws? It can’t even add 2+2
18 - Siri Skills
19 - How can we lean into this technology to improve our productivity
20 - Decision paralysis
20 - Good prompt writing is key
22 - Megaprompting
23 - How can you learn how to reprompt to get the output you’re looking for
24 - Privacy concerns
26 - Bias
27 - D.A.N
31 - NPCs in games
34 - How do we remain ethical in a world of generated content?
35 - UK Chancellor using it to craft a speech
41 - How can we use this today, in our everyday lives?
44 - Example prompts
45 - Becoming an editor


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There are a lot of misconceptions in the tech world. In this episode James and Josh shine some light and dispel some common myths!



01 - Private browsing is private
04 - Agile development means no planning
06 - Adding more developers speeds up projects
09 - Code should be optimised right form the begining
12 - Usability testing is done once the product is ready
14 - Adding more features makes products better
16 - AI will replace developers


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Off Script is back! This episode, James and Josh discuss engineering culture and some of the best practices and processes they’ve implemented for reliable development cycles. What’s the release process? How do you monitor the application and ensure robust code quality? How do Infrastructure and security considerations affect the development? All covered in this episode!



02 Release process - Continuous integration
03 Feature flagging
05 Versioning
07 Application Monitoring & alerting
09 Flare error message mishap
10 Centralised Dashboards
11 Shipping a better product
11 Tips for a new hire
12 Linting
13 Versioning
15 Testing
17 Reduce the feedback loop
20 Architecture review
22 Programming patterns
25 Infrastructure
26 Tooling setup and access (Consul, Vault, etc)
28 Infrastructure as code
30 Data residency and regional deployments
32 Security
33 Secret storage and environment specific configuration
34 Regulatory compliance (e.g. ISO 27001, GCloud expectations
35 Dependency review
36 External security review
37 On-boarding/off-boarding Documentation
38 OpenAPI documents
40 Slack
44 Communication is key


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The state of the world, green engineering, James' wedding, Elon's meltdowns. To round off the year, James and Josh look back at the many ups and downs from the world of tech and beyond.



00 - State of the world
01 - Good to be back in the office
03 - Figma & its Adobe acquisition
04 - Mozilla started to accept Crypto then halted
05 - Web3
06 - Google Fonts Privacy & GDPR breach
07 - Reducing the web's carbon footprint. Optimising & green engineering
08 - Building a Greener Web talk by Michelle Barker
09 - Netify sponsoring open source eleventy
10 - MDN Mozilla Dev Network refresh
11 - '5 Web things that you don't need Javascript for'
12 - CSS Tricks acquired by Digital Ocean
13 - US announced plans to make daylight saving time permanent
15 - Devs for Ukraine
17 - Twitter embeds
18 - Duck Duck Go for Mac & other Chromium forks
20 - US court reaffirmed that web scraping is legal
21 - All Day Hey! 2022
22 - Blogging making a comeback - Own your own thoughts
23 - Is Mastodon any good?
25 - Mailing lists are back
25 - CSS Day is back
26 - Internet Explorer was retired
27 - Stranger Things had a hacking scene that featured Flexbox
28 - WWWDC - Human interface guidelines
29 - Apple Passkeys
30 - W3C became a public interest not-for-profit enterprise
31 - UK Online Safety Bill - a disappointment that targets individuals not big tech
33 - Cookie Pop-up failure of policy
34 - Heroku down all the time
36 - James got married
37 - Chrome version 105
38 - No Code Tools Article
40 - Don't throw away code - article
40 - GitHubs - What's your first github contribution
42 - Source code webkit is now managed on GitHub
43 - Heather Burns - Data Privacy Book
44 - Chris Coyier - Talk 'The web is good now'
45 - Cloudflare SVG support for images
46 - Leeds Digital Festival - DALLE event
48 - btconf - Berlin Trip
48 - PassKey Support by Google
49 - CSS Working Group - The View Transition API + Scrolled Linked Transitions
51 - Way Back Machine Turned 21
53 - Hey! Presents Social in Leeds
54 - ffconf pod episode
54 - Advent of Code
55 - Josh on 'Another Idea Podcast' - Creative Podcast
55 - Web Sustainability Resources
56 - Practical Accessibility Course
57 - re:Invent episode
57 - 'Engineering management for the rest of us' - book by Sarah Drasner
58 - Google switching to a continuous scroll
59 - 25 years since Microsoft FrontPage 98
61 - Parallax won many awards this year
62 - Chatloop


Resources:



Figma
hidde.blog
https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/01/using-google-fonts-breaches-gdpr/
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/reducing-web-carbon-footprint-optimizing-social-media-embeds/
Building a Greener Web by Michelle Barker
https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/
https://www.devsforukraine.io/
https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023
https://webkit.org/blog/12840/web-platform-and-web-extensions-features-highlighted-at-wwdc22/
https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/
https://adactio.com/journal/19370
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/understanding-privacy-pre-release/
https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/chris-coyier
https://blog.cloudflare.com/svg-support-in-cloudflare-images/
https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/dall-e-2-how-ai-will-shape-the-future-of-creativity/
Spotify
https://css-irl.info/web-sustainability-resources/
https://practical-accessibility.today/
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://bima.co.uk/nexus-parallax/
https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/nexus-by-hexagon/42228/
https://www.awwwards.com/sites/nexus
https://thefwa.com/cases/nexus-by-hexagon
https://www.chatloop.com/


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James is back from his Vegas trip for AWS re:Invent! In this episode, they discuss James’ impression of the city, the hot topics of the talks and James’ exploration of the variety of American fast food joints.



00 - What Vegas is like
01 - Elastic vs Serverless
02 - Event overview
06 - Redshift Serverless
07 - Zero ETL
08 - Aurora into Redshift
09 - DataZone
10 - QuickSight Q
11 - Keynote: Swami Sivasubramanian


Fully managed databases
AWS Glue Data Quality
The new geospatial capabilities in Amazon SageMaker allow data scientists to predict natural disasters, manage relief efforts, and navigate roads using satellite imagery and pre-trained neural networks.
DataZone, governance for data lakes, data viruses, and machine learning

15 - Keynote: Dr. Werner Vogels


Parallelism and concurrency
Event-driven architectures
AWS Application Composer



Resources:



https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Keynotes


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Following on from the previous conversation about GPT-3, James & Josh discuss the explosion of ChatGPT's popularity. In this episode they explore how it's different from previous iterations, the way its features are impressing the tech community and also where its limitations may lie.



00 - What does it do differently to GPT-3
01 - Maybe prompt writing won't be a job of the future!
03 - A helpful debugging companion
04 - A new way to interface with Stackoverflow
06 - It doesn't know how to be evil... yet
06 - Finding flaws in Smart Contracts
08 - Live Captioning
09 - What are the roadblocks in AI development?
10 - We can learn a lot from it
12 - AI writing its own prompts or feeding into DALL-E
13 - Where to put checks and balances?
14 - Try asking it a Google question
15 - Book Recommendation: Life 3.0
17 - Teething issues with the new technology
18 - Safeguarding & the online Safety Bill considerations


Resources:



https://chat.openai.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_3.0


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