IBTCFridayOut Newsletter# AI on Rampage

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with devs and read a ton of tweets on people getting more and more anxious about AI. They’ve seen the increasingly impressive demos from tools like GPT-4 - ChatGPT-4 Live Youtube Stream. They worry that by the time they’re fluent in HTML/CSS/JS, there won’t be any jobs left for them 😥.

The fear doesn’t stop at software engineers. Designers, Lawyers and Health care workers are also talking about this tool. Just last week the club made a tweet regarding this. As a matter of fact, our Design Team Lead, Israel, has talked about it a number of times on the club’s group too.

Well, you might have known nobody can predict the future vehemently, but this Josh article could help your judgment. Please read it.

Spoiler alert. The article doesn’t predict Doom.

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Software Developers

At a time in software development, a single exit point was a big deal. Single Exit Point or Single Entry means that a function or method must have only one return statement against all odds.

See the Rust code below for a clear perspective.

fn is_positive (value: i32)->bool {
  let mut result:bool = false;
  if value >= 0 {
    result = true
  }
 return result;// our only return statement
}

fn main () {
   println!("{}", is_positive(0));
}

We could have had two return statements. This is the modern way we do things now. But instead sticked to returning result once.

When you feel a need for early return please do not hesitate to.

fn is_positive (value: i32)->bool {
  if value >= 0 {
    return true;// first return statement
  }
 return false;// second statement
}
...

Desginers

"With Firefly, everyone who creates content — regardless of their experience or talent — will be able to use their own words to generate content the way they dream it up,”

While prompt and generative AI is at rampage, it is good news to know it is touching everyone 😎. With Firefly, anyone can describe a graphic and Adobe will deliver.

However, it has not been a welcoming idea as one would expect. Issues relating with who-owns-what is a big deal with images. Adobe has promised to put a track to identify any Firefly generated image. In china, the government already banned any AI generated image without a watermark.

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