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Faris Zacina•Mar 15, 2023•Founder Playbook

AI-assisted meetings

Imagine meetings where every participant has an AI assistant for real-time support. Faris shares his thoughts on how AI tools like ChatGPT can validate ideas and enhance contributions during discussions. Discover how to unlock productivity with AI in meetings.

Faris Hurić•Mar 8, 2023•Software Architecture & Engineering

Custom sheets for SwiftUI

Learn how to create custom sheets with dynamic height in SwiftUI, even for older iOS versions. Faris' guide walks through coding, animations, and customization tips to enhance your app’s user experience. Perfect for developers looking to elevate their SwiftUI skills.

Faris Zacina•Feb 23, 2023•Founder Playbook

50%+ of programmers still don't use AI tools to generate code in their normal daily workflow

When AWS appeared, engineers were hesitant to use it. Many of the arguments were the same as with AI tools like Copilot. It's incredible that at least 50% of programmers I know still do not use AI/GPT and tools like Github CoPilot (or similar) in their normal daily workflow. It reminds me a little bit of the rise of AWS. When it appeared, many engineers refused to use the cloud as it was unknown and people wanted to have more control over their tools and deployments. They felt safe in their co

Faris Zacina•Feb 7, 2023•Founder Playbook

AI's first real victims are questions and answers websites, not Google

The actual battle is happening between ChatGPT, Anthropic, Bard etc. and the Q/A sites like Quora and StackOverflow. Mass media and social networks are entirely focused on the danger of OpenAI to Search Engines like Google, but the actual victims of the AI battle are rarely mentioned. Questions and answers sites like Quora and StackOverflow are the first dominos to fall in the GPT disruption wave. When you think about it for a second, it’s evident that the user interaction model on Q/A sites i

Lejla Imamovic•Feb 1, 2023•Product Operations & Longevity

How to handle user actions collected in Mixpanel and/or Segment

This article will explain how to extract collected user actions from Mixpanel and Segment to AWS S3 bucket(s), how to configure Mixpanel/Segment pipelines and later how to query extracted data within Redshift.