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The Code Report (June 30, 2024)

congratulations if you're watching this video the good news is that you survived yet another month riding the hockey stick towards the singularity and you get to put this new badge on your vest the bad news though is that by the end of this video you'll be 5 minutes closer to being dead every day there's a new JavaScript framework AI breakthrough corporate lawsuit or Tech bro drama but because I'm just an antique flush based carbon unit I don't have the content generation speed to make every single story into a video we looked at Apple intelligence and serverless gone wrong but there's so much other nonsense that I want to inject into your brain so in today's video we'll do something different and look at 10 or 13 or 14 insane Tech stories that you missed in June it is June 30th 2024 and you're watching the code report yesterday artificial intelligence took another victim the UI ux developer thanks to figma's new collection of AI tools I use figma every day to design side projects and YouTube thumbnails but now you can generate uis with a prompt what's even more exciting though is the visual asset search this is my actual figma workspace I know I should probably be locked up in a facility but with AI search I can now find things based on how they look and not just the plain text in an artboard but that brings us to Story number two Claude Sonet 3.5 it was looking like AI was going to Plateau but Sonet 3.5 proved us wrong it's now easily the best llm for writing code out there and is significantly better both on benchmarks and in my experience than GPT 40 but it also has a killer new feature for coding called artifacts which will save your code Snippets individually allowing you to piece them all together into a cohesive application not to be outdone a few days later open AI released its own new model called critic GPT it's not a regular llm but rather a GPT 4 based model designed to find errors in GPT 4's code it's amazing what these Transformer models can do nowadays and demand for these AI tools made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world in June for a day or two but in Story number three there's a new game-changing ship in town from a startup called etched which burns the actual Transformer architecture onto silicon dramatically increasing the speed of inference assuming you're running a Transformer model if Transformers get replaced by a better architecture this company is screwed but in 2024 this idea looks pretty genius now I know many of you are sick of everybody grifting on artificial intelligence but big companies are not done jamming AI down your throat with things like apple intelligence and Microsoft's co-pilot plus PC we are just getting started and this AI runs on laptops and phones with arm chips but in Story 4 Intel wants to change that with its lunar L chip it's an x86 chip but designed to be way more power efficient is so you can actually run it in a laptop without it catching on fire but now I just have one more AI update for you and that's meta's new llm compiler model and paper the model is based on llama but trained on 546 billion tokens of llvm ir and assembly code what terrifies me is that this model will eventually learn how to build its own programming languages and the 15 years I dedicated to mastering HTML programming will all be for nothing but let's shift gears to Story number six kerski antivirus has been banned in the United States because of potential ties to Putin if you're affected by this though just let me know because I know a guy who can keep you virus free Story number seven cloudflare extortion like a lot of websites this company was using cloudflare for its CDN and dos protection they have 4 million monthly active users and were paying $250 a month then they got this email from cloud flare requiring a $120,000 payment Upfront for an Enterprise plan otherwise they would take all their domains down within the next 24 hours the one detail I left out though is that this website is an online casino and that presents some additional risk for Cloud Player but the way their sales team handled the situation just looks really bad another company that took a couple L's in June is Adobe at first they released some new terms and conditions that b basically say any content that you create on Adobe products become the property of adobe like the video you're watching right now was edited with Adobe Premiere which means apparently Adobe owns this video I don't think they're going to reupload it but they might use it to train their AI the situation is just like that one Black Mirror episode now your advice might be to cancel Adobe and use Da Vinci resolve instead but it's nearly impossible to cancel Adobe and that's why they also got sued by the US government this month for making subscriptions too hard to cancel speaking of the government Apple also took a big L this month when it was accused of violating the new digital markets act in the EU and now they're looking at a $30 billion fine yes that's billion with a B but I'm sad to say that my favorite tech YouTuber also took an L this month Tech lead was accused of abusing the YouTube copyright system after this channel brought shame upon his reputation now I've been a fan of tech lead since the very beginning and it's been fascinating to watch his channel evolve from programming tutorials to flutter hot takes to crypto rug pools to why my wife left me and now blackpill Doomer content today he gets a lot of hate but most people don't realize that it's a satire Channel he's playing playing 5D influencer chess and creating drama to get videos made about him on all these different channels mine included and that's why he's my tech lead now speaking of nerd drama there is also a really weird situation that went down on GitHub this one prolific open source contributor opens up a pull request to expand support for node.js 0.4 a version that almost nobody uses and it gets over 200 down votes and zero up votes people start to question his motives like is he a Chinese spy trying to create a back door or is he doing it for the money from tidelift which is a platform that pays open source contributors for a variety of different things related to package Health however the author denies those conspiracy theories and he's done a lot of good in the JavaScript ecosystem over the years so maybe he deserves the benefit of the doubt I really have no idea it's just fun to watch JavaScript developers fight each other speaking of JavaScript the state of JS 2023 results just dropped react is still the king of JavaScript Frameworks if people still love spelt and vue.js is one of the few established Frameworks it that is paradoxically becoming more loved and thank you for voting fireship as the number one JavaScript channel it's easily my favorite language to make fun of and that brings me to thing number 13 YouTube has been at war with ad blockers for a while and they just Unleashed a new secret weapon a server injected ads normally advertisements load asynchronously with JavaScript on the front end but in the future YouTube plans to inject them directly into video files which in theory will make it impossible for ad blockers to deal with them you are now watching a server injected ad for the new KFC Double Down dog because your ad blocker did not work you will eat Double Down dog because it is on fireship channel thank you for choosing KFC for your nutritional needs this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one