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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• Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game


• Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs


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• Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People


• Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff


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