681: What's New in AI for Web Developers

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:49 v0.dev v0 by Vercel 09:28 Anthropic and Claude Claude Syntax Listener Survey 18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI AI at Meta 18:48 Cloudflare AI Large language model (LLM) Speech to text Translation Sentiment Analysis Image classification Embedding 27:24 AI Hardware announced Rewind 29:39 Cloudflare Hugging face Hugging Face – The AI community building the future. StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications 36:28 OpenAI Function calling Function calling and other API updates 38:55 GPT-4V GPT-4V(ision) system card 42:36 GitHub CoPilot 44:03 Are we still on the AI hype train? 48:27 Are our jobs at risk as developers? 52:24 Spotify DJ AI Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ 53:29 ChatGPT plugins ChatGPT plugins 55:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy Wes: Peter Santenello, Roblox Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky