DevToolsDigest: Issue #389
This week's digest includes news & resources from Pliancy, PromptQL, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
System Prompts are An Archive of How We Use AI
If you want to understand how AI has progressed in recent years, look no further than the evolution of Anthropic’s system prompts. Many are unaware that Anthropic actually publishes its system prompts.
Automating High-Ambiguity Engineering
"Spending about a month building out Orca (a product engineering orchestrator customized to our needs), I overdid it and learned there is such a thing as too much automation."
The Federation Aspect MCP Needs
Proliferation without coordination is not an ecosystem. It is sprawl. And the thing that turns MCP sprawl back into value is the same thing that has turned every other kind of API sprawl into value: federation.
Industry Research
The Reality of the AI Rush
The truth behind the current state of AI in the workplace is elusive, if that “truth” exists at all. It’s difficult for individuals to get a true sense of what other companies are doing internally.
6 Lessons Learnt Closing a $10M+ AI Deal at a F500
All the old rules still apply. The product has to be real, it has to work, it has to demonstrate value. You need to be opinionated and prescriptive in a way that the customer can absorb.
Developer Venture News
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9B
If completed, the acquisition would put one of the most widely used platforms for sharing and working with open-source AI models under Nvidia’s ownership, expanding the chipmaker’s reach further.