Episode 400: Prompt Engineering

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs…

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Runner-up Titles

• You don’t want to toy with food poisoning
• Do you put all your eggs in one basket?
• The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT
• This is just Bing
• Bullshit as a Service
• It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine
• Bad dog
• The answer to every question is ChatGPT
• Linux under the desktop

Rundown

• Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t?
• Earnings and Outlook
  • Cloud Giants Update
  • Red Hat OpenShift making money
  • Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing.
  • Cloud Earnings
  • The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway
  • Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down
  • The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
  • Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December
  • FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft
  • The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS
• A.I.
  • OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete
  • Google has developed a music-making AI bot
  • Why does ChatGPT constantly lie?
  • Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders
  • OpenAI API
  • Infrastructure-as-Code Generator
  • Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing
  • Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
  • Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight
• Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool
• Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (The Cloudcast Podcast)
• This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year

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