🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #313

Rise and shine, it's Thursday - the weekend is in sight!

#GrokAI - Grok, X’s AI, was spewing anti semitic and pro-Hitler comments - so it had to be turned off! This was AFTER Elon Musk recently announced that his AI chatbot has been “significantly improved”!! They had publicly asked for training data that was factual but politically incorrect - guess it didn’t work out well in the end!

Indian Origin Sabih Khan Appointed As COO For Apple
Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations. Williams will continue reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook and overseeing Apple”s world-class design team and Apple Watch. Khan has been at Apple for 30 years and joined the executive team as senior VP of Operations in 2019.

Linda Yaccarino Steps Down As X CEO
Linda Yaccarino was the CEO of X, the company founded by Elon Musk, and was brought in for her experience in advertising. She stepped down after 2 years, citing a desire to carry out Musk's vision for the company. Her departure comes on the same day X's AI chatbot Grok was taken offline for an antisemitic tirade, and the same day Musk is set to unveil Grok 4.

Replit Collaborates With Microsoft To Bring Vibe Coding To Enterprise Customers
Replit is a software creation platform that allows users to build applications using natural language, making coding accessible to non-technical users. Today, they partnered with Microsoft to bring this capability to enterprise customers, enabling business teams to build and deploy secure applications without needing coding expertise.

Nuxtlabs Joins Vercel
NuxtLabs, creators of popular web framework Nuxt and server runtime Nitro, have joined forces with Vercel, a platform that provides a fast and secure way to deploy web applications. This move is significant for the open web, as Nuxt and Nitro will remain independent, open source projects with a public roadmap and open governance.

Gmail - Manage subscriptions feature added, allowing users to view and manage email subscriptions from a single place. Those pesky LinkedIn and Facebook notifications are now easier to unsubscribe from!

Microsoft Windows - Hotpatching is now generally available for Windows 11 with Arm64 devices - what is its benefit? Most of the Windows Updates can now be installed without having to reboot.

Hugging Face Mini - Launches a robot - Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation. Fully programmable in Python (and soon JavaScript, Scratch).

Comet - Launched by Perplexity, it’s an AI-powered search engine. Also launched Comet Assistant, a new AI agent that can automate routine tasks, summarize emails and calendar events, and navigate webpages.

Rajiv Shah, Contextual | Forget RAG Pipelines—Build Production Ready Agents in 15 Mins - Tired of complex RAG pipelines? This video from Contextual AI shows you how to build production-ready agents in just 15 minutes. Learn to move beyond demos and scale your RAG systems to handle thousands of documents with ease. The talk covers everything from robust data extraction and custom-trained language models to advanced evaluation with natural language unit tests.

Aadit Sheth, Neatprompts | Prompt is the New Programming Language - Is English the new hottest programming language? This video argues that with the rise of AI, prompting is becoming a new form of programming. The speaker highlights the increasing adoption of AI in code generation across the industry and introduces a range of AI-powered tools that are changing how developers work.

Improving The Notifications UX
This article explores the many faces of notifications, including their triggers, origins, and impacts, and how they can be categorized into different types such as informational and action-oriented. You will learn about the importance of timing and relevance in notifications, and how they can be designed to minimize distractions and optimize user experience.

Designing Scalable Forms: Overcoming The Modal Conundrum
This article discusses the challenges of using modal dialogs for complex forms and introduces a stacked drawer navigation system as a scalable solution. You will learn about the pain points of modal-based forms, the design process, and the benefits of the drawer-based approach, including improved user experience, increased task success rate, and reduced error rates.

Introducing OpenCLI
A developer got fed up of inconsistencies with CLIs so decided to create a formal specification around it for standardising CLI interfaces for both humans and computers.