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Thursday 29 October

‘Our most prolific engineers have demonstrated that neither the developer role nor their output is defined by the use of AI’: Amazon tells software engineers that not every task needs AI as token consumption surges

AI-generated summary Amazon released a memo telling software development engineers and software development managers that not every task needs artificial intelligence tooling. Terk Terkowitz says that our most prolific engineers have demonstrated that neither the developer role nor their output is defined by the use of artificial intelligence.

From Tokens to Bytes I: Scaling Hierarchical Networks

AI-generated summary Cartesia explores scaling hierarchical networks to replace hand-crafted tokenization steps in language models and learn directly from raw bytes. Cartesia says that hierarchical networks improve validation loss by 1.3x and yield greater gains on code and out-of-distribution evaluation.

Earlier: From Tokens to Bytes II: Learning from Raw Data