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Iain Thomson

  • Technology and Science Writer, Freelance
  • Panelist and Occasional Host, TWiT
San Francisco
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Is looping ready to roll? Experts split on the future of coding

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By Iain Thomson
| DEV Community
On the closing day of the AI Engineer World's Fair, industry leaders debated whether loops are ready for mainstream use and whether humans still have a place in coding. On the loops-now side, Geoff Huntley, founder of Latent Patterns, was understandably bullish. He said that over two years ago he was at Canva and watched engineers prompting repeatedly and realized that this could be done much more efficiently with a software loop. "It's somewhat inevitable," he said.
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The biggest World’s Fair yet powers down for the moment

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By Iain Thomson
| DEV Community
The AI Engineer World’s Fair has ended, and over 7,000 folks are heading back to their homes, states, and foreign countries, and mulling the important lessons learned. This has been the largest gathering of AI engineers since the conference began in a small way three years ago.
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Some Robots Just Can’t Handle The Expo

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By Iain Thomson
| DEV Community
As you'd expect, there were robots aplenty at the AI Engineer World's Fair Expo, although with mixed results. Many companies had little four-wheeled box robots, such as those used to deliver shopping in some cities. One would dispense small swag gifts in exchange for a QR code, while others just jerked around the floor, stopping and starting to avoid running people over. Those that garnered the most attention were the humanoid bipeds, but this proved to be a mixed blessing.
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