The Batch

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out. Some people are still using LLMs primarily by asking them short questions. But the models can do much more, like think for minutes, ingest many documents as context, and use web search and other tools.

What Learners From Previous Courses Say About DeepLearning.AI “Within a few minutes and a couple slides, I had the feeling that I could learn any concept. I felt like a superhero after this course. I didn’t know much about deep learning before, but I felt like I gained a strong foothold afterward.” “The whole specialization was like a one-stop-shop for me to decode neural networks and understand the math and logic behind every variation of it.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees. When we architect teams, understanding these distinctions helps us to have realistic expectations. Listing functions from most accelerated to least, my order is: frontend development, backend, infrastructure, and research.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams. The obvious difference is that AI-native teams use coding agents to build products much faster, but this leads to many other changes in how we operate. For example, some great engineers now play broader roles than just writing code. They are partly product managers, designers, sometimes marketers.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become. Today, we use a keyboard and mouse to control most desktop and web applications. In the future, I hope we will be able to additionally talk to many of these applications to steer them.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, The anti-AI coalition continues to maneuver to find arguments to slow down AI progress. If someone has a sincere concern about a specific effect of AI, for instance that it may lead to human extinction, I respect their intellectual honesty, even if I deeply disagree with their position.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity. High-school students wonder if there will be a job for them, engineers worry about keeping up, C-level officers wonder if they’ll manage to help their businesses transform with AI, and many more.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, Should there be a Stack Overflow for AI coding agents to share their learnings with each other? Last week, I wrote about the new Context Hub (chub), a CLI tool to provide API documentation to coding agents. Coding agents built using LLMs that learned from old code examples often use incorrect or outdated APIs. Chub addresses this by letting them access the latest documentation.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, I’m thrilled to announce Context Hub, a new tool to give to your coding agents the API documentation they need to write correct code. If you’re building AI systems using modern technologies, your coding agent will often use outdated APIs, hallucinate parameters, or not even know about the tool it should be using.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Dear friends, We just released a Skill Builder tool to help you understand in which areas of AI you’re strong, where you can learn more, and what to do next to keep building your skills. I invite you to have a conversation with it. There are many job opportunities in AI! Employers are eager to hire people with AI skills. But the landscape of AI technology is large, growing, and rapidly changing.