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I’ve seen an enormous divergence in how teams are approaching AI. I’ve spoken to hundreds of engineering leaders about AI adoption. They almost invariably fall into one of three camps: “We’re avoiding .” It’s an operational risk/security risk, so until it’s better understood, we’ve got policies to avoid it. Camp 1: AI “We’re allowing our people to use AI.” There’s no policy around adoption, but our engineers are using GitHub Copilot, and we let them try things out in ChatGPT. Camp 2: “We’re actively adopting AI.” They’ve got a person (or a task force) responsible for working out how to adopt AI, and they’re open-minded about the potential gains. Camp 3: What people in Camp 1 and Camp 2 don’t realize is that the people in Camp 3 are making gains. enormous We asked 200+ companies to tell us about their AI adoption. Those adopting AI said they’d worked out how to use AI to . already ship 2.5x faster Let that sink in! That means teams who are actively adopting AI are reclaiming 3 hours out of every 8-hour day. And those same teams expect to be saving 5 hours out of every 8-hour day in a year. If that isn’t a competitive advantage, I don’t know what is. As an engineering lead, you’re in the hot seat to usher in this new era of AI-enhanced software development. So here’s a list of six best-in-class AI tools your team should absolutely be leveraging before this year caps off. 1. Sourcegraph Cody Sourcegraph Cody accelerates your code writing with AI. Imagine a tool that can read, understand, and answer questions about your entire codebase as well as internal documentation. That's Sourcegraph Cody. This tool promises to speed up coding tasks by a factor of 10. Best features: AI-assisted code autocomplete Codebase-aware chat and commands One-click unit tests Spots code smells in real-time Sourcegraph Cody is the next-generation tool from GitHub Copilot. It excels in larger projects where speed and understanding of the existing codebase are crucial. My view: offers slimmed-down solutions with similar feature groups. Alternatives: Mutable Check out Sourcegraph Cody 2. Grit Grit automates the management of your technical debt. Tired of manual code migrations and dependency upgrades? Grit aims to automate these often tedious tasks by auto-generating pull requests that follow best practices. It even claims to complete migrations 10x faster. Best features: Auto-generates pull requests for code migrations Monitors for regressions in your codebase Accelerates dependency upgrades : For teams bogged down by the weight of legacy code and tech debt, Grit is a lifeline. My view Check out Grit 3. What The Diff What The Diff streamlines your code review process. This tool will not only suggest changes in your pull requests but also generate summaries for technical and non-technical team members. Best features: Instant code refactoring with quick commands Summarises pull requests into digestible overviews Reporting and notifications If your team is churning out pull requests at a high velocity, What The Diff is the assistant referee you never knew you needed. My view: Check out WhatTheDiff 4. Stepsize AI I’m building this tool with my team at Stepsize, and I would love to hear about your use case and your thoughts. As engineering leaders, processes and tools for alignment are second nature. We’ve had to adopt them to make alignment feel possible. But, at best, we (and our engineers) lose 30% of our time trying to get aligned. We do synchronous things like having meetings and asynchronous things like sending Slack messages, and we sift through our systems of record – think Jira, Linear, or GitHub – to find what we need. But really, we’re hardly ever properly aligned. ’s Operational Intelligence Engine observes and reflects on everything that happens in the tools you use to collaborate, including . Stepsize AI Slack, Jira, Linear, and GitHub Then, it creates powerful, reliable updates based on its contextual knowledge of your projects and activity. For example, you can configure: Daily standups Team syncs Sprint reviews Kanban reviews Executive summaries ‍ It’s all about staying in the loop without drowning in the data. We designed it to be able to: Achieve alignment effortlessly: Navigate the complex web of information channels to foster alignment between business units, teams, and individuals. Spend less time in meetings: Shift focus from information-sharing meetings to impactful work. Enable visibility and foster transparency: Imi tate the "water cooler effect,” bolstering team unity, shared work habits, and culture. React swiftly, miss nothing: Ensure no opportunity or risk goes unnoticed, irrespective of the volume of data across tools. Reduce context switching: Maintain team efficiency by reducing interruptions and promoting uninterrupted workflow. So, if you’re tired of tedious meetings and spending hours connecting the dots, I’m hoping Stepsize AI is going to be the go-to solution. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Find out more about Stepsize AI. 5. Mintlify Writer Mintlify Writer automates your code documentation. Documentation is often the last thing on a developer’s mind (or at least, the last thing they want to be on their mind), but it’s still an imperative part of any project. Mintlify Writer understands your code and generates accurate documentation in an instant. Best features: One-click comprehensive documentation Understands a wide range of programming languages Context-aware to produce relevant descriptions Writing docs isn’t a valuable use of your engineers’ time, and – generally speaking, at least – it’s not a popular part of the job. Docs can end up being incomplete and inaccurate because it’s often an afterthought. So, Mintlify Writer is a lifesaver, and it's especially useful for large, complex projects where documentation can become overwhelming. My view: really is a more generalist tool that can be used for auto-generating documentation. Alternatives: Scribe Check out Mintlify Writer 6. Otter AI Otter AI is your AI-powered meeting assistant. If you're drowning in meetings, let Otter AI be your lifeline. It can join, record, and summarise your meetings, allowing you to focus on the work that actually matters. ‍ Best features: AI chat for meetings Automatic AI meeting summarisation Automated slide capture Live transcript summary Otter AI is a universal tool, beneficial for teams large and small, technical or otherwise. It’s pretty great for any use case, like catching up on missed meetings, remembering what happened on sales calls without having to rewatch the whole thing – anything like that. It’s a huge time saver. My view: Check out Otter AI The Final Word Alright, so there you have it – six AI tools that are ready to help your team elevate their game before 2023 ends. Some teams treat AI like a fad. Those aren’t the teams unlocking 350% efficiency gains. Be in the latter camp and turn AI into a competitive advantage (before your competitors do!). Got time to share your feedback? I’ve built Stepsize AI to enable your teams to stay aligned so you can cancel hours’ worth of status update meetings and know what’s happening effortlessly. I’d love to hear about what your use case is at your org. Also published . here

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AI is on the rise. In some ways it was always inevitable. But ask any researcher who suffered through the 1990s in AI research and they might not agree. AI and neural networks in particular were considered a backwater for researchers for decades. If you wanted a dead end career go into neural nets. In the 1990s, one of the leading thinkers behind neural networks, . Nobody came to his classes. He worked on his ideas in isolation. Geoffrey Hinton, could barely get funding So few people have strong histories in AI now that big companies like Google and Facebook can’t find enough of them or hire them fast enough. Top AI researchers are making . The shortage will continue for some time, since people just weren’t studying this stuff. to pick up the mantel. Frankly, that’s probably the best bet nowadays anyway. more money than pro athletes That leaves it to the kids who don’t bother with college and just figure it out for themselves with open source tools Geoffrey Hinton and his colleagues always knew the math would work behind the algorithms. They just didn’t have the hardware to make it a reality. That would take decades and the rise of massive clouds to make it possible to run the huge calculations behind neural networks. And yet, even that wasn’t enough. It took the ascension of a different industry to really allow it to take off: Video Games. The relentless acceleration of graphics processing power led to ever more parallel processors to deal with the constant calculations of drawing more and more photorealistic graphics in real time. Now computer scientists are to make the giant matrix calculations of AI work faster and faster. tapping banks of those GPUs So where’s this idea you’re talking about Dan? I want to make billions. All right here you go. Fifteen years ago, I proposed a revolutionary concept to my friend, . He went on to become one of the top angel investors in Silicon Valley, but at the time he was just getting his start in investing, working at a company called and starting his first company that I built the Linux servers to power, a company that was eventually purchased by McAfee and became . I was playing a lot of games back then as many young techies tend to do. They had graphics cards and were even starting to have physics cards, but they seemed to be missing the brains of the operation: AI. Computer opponents were dumb and easy to defeat. They couldn’t think like people. So I said: Chris Dixon Bessemer Venture Partners Site Advisor Why don’t we build an AI card for video games? We could accelerated path finding and any other calculations that made the enemies smarter. He went away and did some research. After a bit he came back and said “I think this is a great idea. Let’s do it.” And you know what happened? I chickened out. I didn’t think I was old enough, smart enough, or tough enough to make it a reality. In short, I was a coward. I don’t look back in life with regret very often but this is one of those moments that I had the chance to change my life and the world forever and I failed. When I think about how much further along this industry would be right now, I’m really sad. We might already be close to General Artificial Intelligence (GAI). We almost certainly would’ve had Siri, smart phones and AlphaGo a decade earlier. But with that said, I don’t regret it too much. In hindsight, it was the right decision. I wasn’t really meant to do that or I would have had the courage and monomaniacal focus to make it happen. That doesn’t happen for many things in life and it did not happen for me there. Without that kind of relentless focus it’s impossible to bring that kind of radical idea to life. So there you have it. My focus is not tech companies anymore, it’s writing. That’s what I really want to do. That is my monomania. So maybe it wasn’t a mistake. Maybe it was just the universe saving me from myself. The universe has a way of incorporating our “mistakes” along with our “successes” into who we are today. It all works out in the end. And yet it’s still a damn good idea. Nobody has done it yet. So I give this idea to you, my faithful readers. Take it run with it. Frankly, it’s amazing to me that nobody else thought of this. Usually, I think of something and a few days later find out someone has been working on it for years or it already exists. That said, the industry is starting to move in this direction though so get rolling fast. A bunch of companies are focusing on building AI silicone, but mostly for business apps. but it’s not really for games even if it is cool. , with a suggest price of $299 (but you can only buy them in quantities of 1000 or more.) The open source software out there is a great place to get started. If you wanted to build an ASIC, find some designers in China and see if you can accelerate those open source tools. Fathom just released a USB neural compute stick Nvidia just built a card designed for AI They are all missing the big boat: video games. The calculations in video games are what will make this surge to the next level. Those are different from the math needed to power machine vision or self driving cars. There’s still time to take this idea and run with it, but believe me, someone is already out there trying to make it happen. Beat them to it. So what do I want for the idea? Nothing. (Well if you want to give me an honorary position at the company and pay me for hanging around and drinking from your water cooler, I’m game.) But seriously, I ask for nothing, only that one day say that it was me who inspired you. AI game cards. This idea is officially open source. Now go make me proud. A bit about me: I’m an author, engineer and serial entrepreneur. During the last two decades, I’ve covered a broad range of tech from Linux to virtualization and containers. You can check out my latest novel, an epic Chinese sci-fi civil war saga where China throws off the chains of communism and becomes the world’s first direct democracy, running a highly advanced, artificially intelligent decentralized app platform with no leaders. You can also check out the Cicada open source project based on ideas from the book that outlines how to make that tech a reality right now and you can get in on the beta.

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We want productive, collaborative, happy people on our software teams. is pretty ubiquitous in software. There are a tonne of Slack apps and integrations. Not all of them are good. Rather than put together a long list of tools you’ll mostly never use, I’ve picked out 6 of the very best Slack apps for software developers, product teams, project managers and anyone who designs, builds or maintains software. Slack I’m going to cover one best-in-class tool for some of the best use-cases for Slack add-ons. You can always explore more Slack integrations in their . Slack App Directory 1. GeekBot – Automating Team Updates & Standups : Streamlining remote team communication Use this for GeekBot is a Slack app for remote and hybrid teams. It automates things like your standup meetings, sprint retrospectives, surveys and more. Instead of spending half an hour in a daily standup every day, just answer three questions asked by GeekBot in a Slack message. It’ll aggregate it into a concise, customisable report and share it with everyone who needs to see it. GeekBot reduces the hassle associated with different time zones and allows software teams to crack on with the work that matters. It ensures a consistent flow of information. It means more time for your core tasks, and greater overall productivity. My team use this every day to save a whole bunch of time. Try GeekBot for Slack 2. CollabGPT – AI Companion for Software Projects Keeping track of what’s happening on your projects Use this for: is an AI-powered project companion specifically designed for software teams. It integrates smoothly with , delivering rich summaries of team activities and proposing actionable next steps. CollabGPT Slack, Jira, and GitHub CollabGPT’s complex architecture of AI agents develops a long-term “memory” of your projects, and therefore, a deep understanding of the context of your projects. Software teams will find CollabGPT invaluable. Its ability to “remember” allows it to provide deeply contextual summaries, actionable suggestions, and precise answers to critical questions. I’m biased, because I’m part of the team building CollabGPT – but I can put my hand on my heart and say I believe it’s a game-changer. Try CollabGPT 3. Peoplebox: Strategy Execution Platform : Strategic planning and execution Use this for Peoplebox keeps strategic goals at the front of people’s minds. At its core, it’s an OKR (Objectives and Key Results) platform. It’s easy to get into silos and lose sight of company goals. Peoplebox keeps everyone aligned on cross-functional goals. Its Slack integration removes the friction of having “just another tool” and makes promoting focus, alignment and accountability easier for teams who design and build software. Try Peoplebox 4. Evergreen – Team recognition : Encouraging team members to appreciate colleagues’ hard work Use this for I’ll be honest, I don’t like a lot of the employee recognition software out there. It’s generally well-intentioned, but can have unintended consequences like the perception of favouritism, unhealthy competition, demotivation, and encouraging focus on the wrong activity. However, Evergreen’s take on it minimises some of the harm. There’s no money or rewards changing hands – instead, recognition plants trees. It reminds teams of our collective responsibility towards the environment. There’s a feeling that everyone wins when somebody gets praise, and it feels casual enough to avoid some of the negative side-effects of competitor tools. You can choose to link praise to your company values, which helps people keep them front of mind. Try Evergreen 5. Marker – Sending Annotated Screenshots via Slack : Collecting bug reports with annotated screenshots Use this for Marker lets you send feedback and bug reports directly from your site via its Chrome extension. It makes it easy to send annotated screenshots along with context straight to Slack channels in your Slack workspace. Marker is awesome for software teams, particularly when bug tracking or when visual communication is essential. Capturing, annotating and sharing relevant sections of a screen makes tracking bugs and sharing information easy – it also does things like automatically capturing the URL to make the process painless. Try Marker 6. Donut – Human connections for remote workers : Better team cohesion Use this for Got a remote team? You might miss those “water cooler” moments where random people have bonding moments. Donut sparks interesting Slack conversations and keeps people connecting about something other than work. Informal chat makes for better working relationships And it helps keep people sane! It doesn’t just do watercooler moments – their Slack plugin can do icebreakers and intros too. Donut creates the chance for spontaneous ideas and problem-solving discussions. People who know each other better are more productive together, too. Donut say their tool boosts productivity, trust and morale. Try Donut Wrapping up Software teams have so much to gain from using the right Slack extensions. When you add the right Slack apps, you can make huge gains in collaboration, visibility, alignment and more. Each tool I listed above presents an innovative solution to a common problem. And because they integrate with Slack, they don’t proliferate tools unnecessarily. I’m working on making CollabGPT the ultimate AI companion for your software projects. It works with Slack, Jira, GitHub and soon many more tools development teams use every day. It’s able to provide context-rich summaries of the details that matter about your project, make clever suggestions about what to do next and answer any pressing question in real-time. If you’d like to, you can find out more about CollabGPT works here. Also published here.

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Let’s go to Mars to have coffee. It is fascinating to overhear but possible too to drink. Let’s talk about the Metaverse that seemed to be our virtual future or virtual lives. It’s exhilarating to dive into Metaverse which has a cumulative worth of between by mid-2020s intended the global market according to Bank of America. $390 billion and $800 billion And when we indicate the inclusion of companies that stimulate Metaverse to turn its wheel by developing hardware and software union the Facebook transforms its name to Meta to ponder its metaverse muses. Unity Software Inc., Nvidia Corp, Microsoft Corp., Google, Zoom, and Meta. Let’s get first down to basics. What the Metaverse actually have in the bag: is befalling with the power to alter the world to a virtual world. It gonna be a blend of the physical and digital world. It has the dynamism to shift the people virtually to any rim of the world virtually. You are gonna experience to put your glasses or headset and you are instantly in your home space. You can easily build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in reality. Metaverse It is a space where digital depictions of people – avatars – socialize at work and play, meeting in their office, going to concerts, and even trying on clothes. At the hub of this cosmos will be virtual existence, a digital world that you can penetrate via Facebook’s Oculus VR headsets. You are gonna experience to put your glasses or headset and you are instantly in your home space. These trials to create the metaverse have carried copious online games and gathering spots that seized some of the metaverse's most prominent concepts without ever using the term. Mark Zuckerberg has decided that now is the time to , so gigantic wheels are swirling and resources are flooding and the effort is surely operating to be cooked. intensify the metaverse You will be handy to transport physical stuff to the Metaverse. Almost any species of media can be embodied digitally such as arts, books, games, boxes, anything you name. The Metaverse and gaming go hand-in-hand: The primary platform where Metaverse gonna be splash is gaming. In that game environment, will escort you through IMVU. Rather than being fuzzy on a flat screen, you can forsooth communicate with the environment framing them. Gamers are pleased to outlay in virtual cases, skins, avatars, and so on. In the second quarter of 2021, virtual currency is shopped in Roblox climbed 161% to $652.3 million. As the games enterprise elevation fosters the metaverse. Gaming in Metaverse would be like immersive experiences from fantasy lands to bringing our mild games into our daily lives through holograms. It also could be the citing of old games in a new way. You will be able to head in the head with members from throughout the world. You will be smart to inject into things that you can’t do yet in gaming. You could be dive, skate, flipping, without any pulse of danger. Metaverse does a salubrious investment in VR and AR ecosystem. Metaverse will permit creators to keep creating. Games have a thrilling population. Working in Metaverse pulses: I would like to reach the office without a voyage. Dropping the daily commutes would because to a healthy environment, avoid stuck in traffic, and saving time. You will quite have a spirit of synergies, interactions while many positives and that all would be accessible from anywhere. Job from any place would be a great bargain for pro spreading opportunity to more people. You would have watercooler conversations with like-minded folk. Then you would also have ideal work set up, music, modeling, and you can also keep wearing your sweatpants. People are diversely imprisoned to serve from anywhere but hybrid is advancing to be complex meanwhile some imply together and besides still are remote. Environmental understanding, content placement, persistence, voice interaction, and standardized hand interactions would be still handed to you. Metaverse would be meant and introduced to the presentation platform, a broad range of machine perception and AI capabilities that empower developers to build mixed reality experiences. What Have Businesses Become in the Age of Metaverses: Metaverse would be a marvelous place to gain fresh perspectives, stay on the pulse of trends. Metaverse also gonna paint with bringing some for companies. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said about wanting his company to mount an "enterprise metaverse." Microsoft has officially announced in the 2020 conference to begin featuring AI-enabled avatars and workspaces for Metaverse. business opportunities Businesses that aspire to stay ahead in battle should compose plans for wherewith they are walking to fasten with consumers, dig new exhibit opportunities, and be patrons in sponsorships in the metaverse. Is the metaverse the future of digital businesses? Many experts say yes. Sound futuristic? Product placement and advertising: A huge opportunity for advertising such as billboards, for product placements. You package gigs in a metaverse, cull a fan base, and new touchpoints with their consumer realm also found by marketers. It has businesses that gain real money, and that’s the eye of VR advertising. Sponsorships of events and concerts: The huge execution by people, music festivals by Minecraft, as further events gonna be hostess in metaverse in digital space. The company has a duo of opportunities for profitable sponsorships. Over the years, many brands like MTV, Coke, American Apparel, Dell, Coldwell Banker, etc. have put in cash and effort to create a metaverse advertising campaign. Digital Only products: You are on the seat of opportunity hallmarks to generate and sell digital products in the digital world. So pretty much Personas have to buy crisp outfits, homes, cars, including they can assume and even things that can’t even imagine. Let the avatars try on clothes and allow them to place real-world orders. Things have to be digital too if we gonna digital. Metaverse Services: Metaverse services firms will be obliged to support organizations to move and sway in the Metaverse. Corporations for case produce digital twins latterly arguing to sports about how you can form a digital twin of the stadium of football in the Metaverse. So people can digitally move to the stadium and watch games and at this point, companies troops have the chance to form this digital service. Metaverse hardware: Evolving headsets and dressing them light and more light. And the glasses with extra contact lenses proffer us virtual and optical reality. Give us A haptic suit (also known as a tactile suit, gaming suit, or haptic vest) that gives us a sight of feeling and stirring. Any device such as PCs and mobile manufacturing lead to a wide range of ideas and opportunities to companies for Bussiness in Metaverse. Improving business operations: Business operations applications to improve their operation. Such as the digital models and supply chain that syncs up in real-time with the physical environment. The model enables masters to customize the method and conduct quality control. Remote working: Remote working is a roaring thing that rises opportunities to lead our work in the Metaverse and form entire working spaces like meetings, training, stimulations. For instance, Facebook gonna raising workrooms that attempt to take new ways to collaborate rather than take on zoom and which is virtual reality. In the future, you will hold events, conferences, in the virtual world and they will be given performed as avatar tasks. Your avatar takes meetings while you are at home. Informational Facts: It is mounted on blockchain architecture and it has its own called sonium cubes that can be adopted to buy properties and then you have a large avatar-based 3D social network where users can interact, hangouts, gather. You gonna become up with Digital twins in this space. You will be the proprietor of IMVU a large avatar-based 3D social network where users can socialize. In the virtual world and they will be given performed as avatar tasks. Your avatar takes meetings while you are at home. in-app currency IMVU In the next five years, we will be effectively transitioning from people seeing us primarily as a social media company to being a METAVERSE company. - Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

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