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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
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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
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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.
Read MoreFaris Zacina•Jan 24, 2023•Founder Playbook
ChatGPT is not replacing software engineers anytime soon
The hype around ChatGPT AI is real. We see random people on the internet creating crazy stuff with simple conversations. It almost seems like anyone out there is churning out code, images, full products, etc. But is that true? who is actually tinkering with these tools? The early adopters and creators are still the very people that were supposed to be replaced. I haven’t yet seen a doctor with zero programming knowledge creating an app, or a sales professional creating a book about nuclear en
Read MoreFaris Zacina•Jan 23, 2023•Founder Playbook
The internet copying machine is powered by AI
We are just cogs in the internet copy machine. When copies are abundant, they become worthless. It's time to exit the machine. I’ve heard once that the internet is a copying machine where users just copy and paste other people content, sometimes with minor modifications. The 1% internet rule would probably confirm this, as most people are not creators, and 99% are just viewing, commenting, sharing, etc. Open the average profile on any social network, and you will observe that most interaction
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