• Why do clients get mad? Great advice to freelancers

• Don’t want to pay for MidJourney? There’s a worthy alternative.

• Everyone wants you to talk with documents!

Do humans want to talk to humans?

Because of the “AI comes after our jobs” narrative, lately, I’ve been thinking about this “human interaction” aspect a lot. And I came across this post by Michale Janda:

It is correct that clients/humans want to be heard. They want you to be there when needed, even if things go sour. Or, Especially when things go sour.

Imagine

After learning how to use Mid-Journey (I’m still learning), I really liked the results I got. But there’s a new AI in the town: https://leonardo.ai/

It’s in beta, and you must get invited to use it. But you’re not if you’re reading this. Here’s a little hack for you: go to https://app.leonardo.ai/ and choose Google as a login method. It’ll let you in. You’ll thank me later!

Talk file to me!

For some reason, lately, everyone wants us to talk to files. Google announced a new project, Tailwind: https://tailwind.withgoogle.com/

ChatGPT opened plugins to all of its Plus subs:

And there’re so many services that allow you to do the same thing: https://www.chatpdf.com/

It made me think 💭

This week’s info that made me think a lot is these fellows that make their dream come true without needing a team of people:

• Why did Amazon Prime Video ditch serverless in favor of monolith?

• Is this new AI really new or cool-packaged ChatGPT?

• There’s a new kid in the town to develop AI, a new Python alternative → Mojo.

• And Google wants to get rid of the passwords.

Money, Money, Money 👉 📺

Since the announcement of AWS Lambda, everyone has found creative ways of integrating that into the development process. At some point, everyone is talking about moving applications to microservice architecture.

During the earlier days of the serverless approach, I also tried that approach and even built a whole fleet management service solely on serverless architecture.

But the thing is, soon you realize that it is a very costly way of building. Indeed, you are no longer provisioning the servers, that is somebody else’s problem, but now you have a new problem called “money.”

Amazon announced that they are moving from serverless to monolith architecture. So why it’s a big deal? Think about it, if even Amazon can not afford its AWS costs, then who else can?

What is real?

Seeing the success of ChatGPT, people started to compete for their place in this new industry. And one of them is HeyPi. They got $225M in funding and claimed to be a friendly and accurate version of ChatGPT. But some screenshots show that before implementing guardrails, the chatbot itself confessed to using ChatGPT under the hood. You can check it at https://heypi.com/ (use your headphones, it talks)

On the AI front, news continues full steam ahead. MidJourney announced the new version, and Nvidia shared an early version of some of its text-to-video generations.

Speaking of generative AIs, after ChatGPT’s popularity, the internet started to be filled/fooled with the text generated by ChatGPT. So this week, I stumbled upon a tool called ZeroGPT, which tries to detect AI-generated content.

But the thing is, when I tried with a detailed prompt, it showed that only 20% of checked content was generated by AI. So folks, choose your prompts wisely.

And last but not least, we now have a new language to develop AI applications. And if you want to know why this one is a big deal and who created it, then check this video:

Warning of the week!

Google tries to re-invent the password, most accurately, to get rid of it. You can check about it detailed in here. But I warn you, before betting on it, let’s be patient and see if it will end up on the graveyard of Google.

I've Learned

I’ve been using React since it was hot. And Thought I understood how React Render works. But after reading this, I found out how it actually works.

Made me think 💭

I’ll be sharing weekly updates on what happened in the tech and dev space.

FOMO: AI is everywhere!

As you may guess, AI is still the town's hot guy. And most probably, you have already heard a lot and might not want to listen to any more about it.

I get it.

Even while taking notes for this week’s issue, two different AI/ChatGPT wrappers were trying to help me. Notion’s AI was competing with Grammarly’s!

But hear me out.

You can use it to your advantage and boost your productivity. For example, I delegated my note-taking to ChatGPT:

If you also want to use a similar setup, you can check Tom’s article on how to implement it using PipeDream: https://thomasjfrank.com/how-to-transcribe-audio-to-text-with-chatgpt-and-notion/

Remember that you will need to use OpenAI’s API, which is paid.

There’re other tools that you can take advantage of free of charge. Well, somewhat free. Because to use ChatGPT 4, you have to be a “plus” user.

Suppose you're as idle as I am, unwilling to copy + paste content into the ChatGPT browser window and input a “brief summary”; fortune favors you.

Meet UseChatGPT.ai Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/usechatgptai-chatgpt-copi/mhnlakgilnojmhinhkckjpncpbhabphi

Using it just a few days, but it's already proved helpful.

They even listed a page with prompts that can be useful on your case: https://www.usechatgpt.ai/prompts?category=All&use_case=All

It’s not enough? Then how about community generated prompt library: right inside on your ChatGPT window? Here’s another Chrome extension that I use daily: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aiprm-for-chatgpt/ojnbohmppadfgpejeebfnmnknjdlckgj

Stay Sane!

Everything happens so quickly you may feel like, you left behind. If you feel overwhelmed, then you should seek mental support. You can’t afford that? Then, there’s AI for that! 🙂

Meet our personal CBT therapist: Cindy

Closure

Have a great one! We’ll meet next week!