The Roundup: All Eyes on India!
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We’re just ten days away from WeAreDevelopers Conference India in Bengaluru and with so much happening we’ve got a packed roundup for you this week, so let’s get right into it.
🇮🇳 WeAreDevelopers India
Tickets are still on sale for this month’s WeAreDevelopers Conference India, with Conference Passes and VIP Passes available for what will be two unforgettable days between November 25 and 26th.
🎥 Featured videos
In this week’s Dev Digest we’ve got a special episode of Coffee with Developers with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, where we discuss the importance of staying curious in an AI world. Take a look at a clip below, or check out the full episode here.
If that wasn’t enough, we’ve also got Ewa Szyszka talking about AI vector search at scale, and Dr. Damir Dobric makes a good argument for what developers building AI for the enterprise need to know.
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🔴 LIVE and Fake or News: Haimantika Mitra
For this week’s LIVE episode, we welcomed Haimantika Mitra, Senior Developer Advocate at Entire to discuss how sharing small-scale weekend projects is a great way to learn new tech and enhance your career, without risking burnout.
Haimantika also took on a round of Fake or News, with Agents Form a Union, Hackers Target Plasma & Safari Blocks AI. Can you guess whether AI companies in France created a framework to help agents unionise? Or did we make it up?
☕ Coffee with Developers
We had a bonus episode this week, with Philipp Richter, Chief People Officer at Personio joining us for a Coffee with Developers HR special to discuss how they are transforming tech hiring with AI, while keeping people in the loop.
Watch every episode right here or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
📰 In the magazine
This week, Lilia Gargouri, expresses concern that developers might be at risk of forgetting what quality engineering is, in her article Between AI Euphoria and Quality Engineering: Why We Are in Danger of Unlearning Software Quality.
If you’re building with AI, there are likely legal frameworks out there you’re bound by and not aware of. Alora Frederick cuts through the noise in Building With AI? Here Are the Frameworks You Need to Know.
We also show you how to Get Your Own Google Data on a Schedule with Takeout, a straight-forward and practical guide to automating your Google Takeout exports.
That’s it for this week! And if you missed San Jose, you can still watch hundreds of hours of talks from World Congress North America in the full collection on the WeAreDevelopers app. See you next week.