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🤖 Claude Best practices for agentic coding
🦾Plus: Perplexity browser 🌐, AI consciousness research 🤖
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊Data Science Vs Data Analytics
🛠️How Agoda Uses GPT to Optimize SQL Stored Procedures in CI/CD
🐘PostgreSQL JSONB - Powerful Storage for Semi-Structured Data
⚙️How Slack Optimizing its E2E Pipeline
🧠 ChatGPT’s Deep Research Now Available for All Users
🤖 Anthropic’s new research explores AI model welfare
🔓 Perplexity exploiting user data for ads?
💡 AI Tutorial:Automate your sales with personalized emails
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Claude Code is a command line tool for agentic coding. This post covers tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments. Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing close to raw model access without forcing specific workflows. This design philosophy creates a flexible, customizable, scriptable, and safe power tool.
Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building.
In this data-oriented generation today, when one speaks of data science or data analytics, both terms seem interchangeable. While they have many similarities, the two fields vary widely in places they go and what they mean for career growth.
SQL stored procedure optimization at scale requires CI/CD performance testing and manual bottleneck analysis, consuming hundreds of annual developer hours. Agoda integrated GPT to automate reviews, reduce approval times, and enable self-service tuning, addressing delays and manual inefficiencies in their workflow.
PostgreSQL JSONB efficiently stores semi-structured data using a binary format for direct path access and indexing, enabling complex queries without rigid schemas. By supporting GIN/B-Tree indexes and JSON-specific operators, it balances relational integrity with document flexibility, ideal for varied data models while maintaining transactional reliability.
In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. This post dives into how Slack’s DevXP team took some existing tools and used them to optimize an end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline. This lowered build times and reduced redundant processes, saving both time and resources for engineers at Slack.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
VectorChord (GitHub Repo)
VectorChord is a PostgreSQL extension designed for scalable, high-performance, and disk-efficient vector similarity search.
Sequin (GitHub Repo)
Sequin is a tool for change data capture in Postgres that supports native sinks, making it easy to stream Postgres rows and changes to streaming platforms and queues.
Skia Canvas (GitHub Repo)
Skia Canvas is a browser-less implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for Node.js. It produces very similar results to Chrome's canvas element.
AI News:
Anthropic just launched a new research program dedicated to “model welfare,” exploring the complex ethical questions around whether future AI systems might gain consciousness or deserve moral consideration in the future. Research areas include developing frameworks to assess consciousness, studying indicators of AI preferences and distress, and exploring interventions.
HubSpot’s AI-powered ecosystem presents a global opportunity projected to reach $10.2 billion by 2028. To capitalize on that growth potential, we are opening our platform more, starting with expanded APIs, customizable app UI, and tools that better support a unified data strategy.
OpenAI has broadened access to its Deep Research feature, an advanced tool providing detailed reports within ChatGPT. Originally for Pro subscribers, it's now available for Plus, Team, and free users via a cost-effective lightweight version powered by the o4-mini model.
Google DeepMind just released new upgrades to its Music AI Sandbox, introducing its new Lyria 2 music generation model alongside new creation and editing features for professional musicians. The platform’s new “Create,” “Extend,” and “Edit” features allow musicians to generate tracks, continue musical ideas, and transform clips via text prompts.
Adobe just launched a major expansion of its Firefly AI platform at its MAX London event, introducing two new powerful image generation models, third-party integrations, a new collaborative workspace, and an upcoming mobile app. The new Firefly Image Model 4 and 4 Ultra boost generation quality, realism, control, and speed, while supporting up to 2K resolution outputs
Perplexity doesn’t just want to compete with Google, it apparently wants to be Google. CEO Aravind Srinivas said this week on the TBPN podcast that one reason Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app. This so it can sell premium ads.
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