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$500 Billion AI ๐Ÿ†, iPhone Air ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ, New Apps ๐ŸŽ‰

Today's TechToks: Google's billionaire investment in OpenAI's rival, ChatGPT's competitor at 5% cost, Trending GitHub repositories, Fresh Product Picks, and much more!

 

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Today's Picks๐Ÿ’

  • ๐Ÿš€ OpenAIโ€™s $500 billion infrastucture, ChatGPTโ€™s 95% Cheaper Rival, iPhone Air Rumors

  • ๐Ÿฟ From Netflix Engineering: How To Do Title Launches

  • ๐Ÿ“Š From Meta Engineering: Measuring developer productivity

๐ŸŒŸ GitHub's Trending Repositories

  • ๐Ÿ’ผ Optimize resumรฉ for a Job

  • ๐Ÿ”ฎTurn codebases into prompts

  • ๐Ÿง  Learn Rust

๐Ÿ”ฅ Products of the Week

  • ๐ŸŽฏ Stay Focused

  • ๐ŸŒŒ Website Designs

  • ๐Ÿค– Automate Daily Tasks

  • โž• And much more

๐Ÿง Weekly Picks

Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today

OpenAI's $500 Billion U.S. AI Infrastructure Initiative
โ€œThe Stargate Projectโ€ is a company intending to invest $500 billion within four years, building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. Initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. $100 billion are to be deployed immediately.

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๐Ÿ“ฑ Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt.

๐Ÿ”ฅTrending products of the week

๐ŸŽฏ Raycast Focus

Stay in flow by blocking distracting apps and websites. Stay productive by reducing context switching: Set a goal, choose a duration, and pick which apps and websites to block.

๐Ÿ”ฎ 21st.dev

GitHub + Pinterest for AI website design. A vast marketplace of UI elements to create beautiful, professional AI websites.

๐Ÿคฏ Minduck Discovery

AI search platform that generates interactive mind maps. Faster searching, with traceable, in-depth content and insights.

๐Ÿค– DryMerge

Automate work with task automation in plain English. Workflows include โ€˜"When I get an email from a new customer, add them to my sheet" and "Text me a summary of my meetings at 9am daily".

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TestSprite

Easy AI agent for software testing. Automates the testing workflow, from planning and code generation to debugging, with natural language interaction. Promises seamless frontend/backend coverage and 90% cost cut.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Ragie

Build RAG applications (easily) on your user data. Provides RAG-as-a-Service, simplifying user-facing integrations with seamless authentication, data syncing, and intuitive APIs.

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

A podcast episode on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) โ€“ how Meta measures how long it takes to submit changes to a codebase. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Overcast.

 

The Challenge
Netflix title launches faced disruptions from metadata errors, personalization bugs, and algorithmic anomalies, hindering visibility and audience connection.

The Solution
Netflix introduced "Title Health" to track title discoverability and performance. Key strategies included improving:

  • Categorizing Issues: Metadata setup, personalization systems, and algorithm reliability.

  • Proactive Detection: Identifying issues before launch to prevent downstream failures.

  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Aligning operators, engineers, and creators with clear frameworks.

The Outcome
Smoother title launches, reducing 40% metadata errors and 25% of personalization bugs. Member engagement improved, with a 15% increase in titles reaching target audiences, empowering Netflix to deliver personalized experiences while supporting rapid content growth.


โœจ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

A CLI tool to generate well-formatted LLM prompts from codebases. It provides features like prompt templating, token counting, and Git integration to help developers efficiently leverage large language models for a variety of tasks, including code documentation, security analysis, and quality improvement.

What can you use this for? Quickly ask LLMs about your code, customize prompts with templates, and make clear documentation.

 

AI-based and free tool to helps you tailor your resume to a job description. It uses Python to parse resumes and job descriptions, extract keywords and key terms, and measure vector similarity to provide insights and suggestions to make your resume ATS-friendly.

 

 What can you use this for? Tailor your resume, find matching keywords, improve readability, and gain deep insights.

 

Repos to learn something new  

Bitcoin has over doubled price in the past year and Rust is a programming language commonly used in crypto. This repository is a a self-paced course to learn Rust, one exercise at a time. With books, exercises, workshops on the websiteโ€” Also with masterclasses on Rust-Python Interoperability, telemetry, for more advanced learners.

 

 What can you use this for? Learn Rust programming, practice coding skills, and enhance problem-solving abilities.

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