Cherif Yaya

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Friday Finds - 02/08/25

What I’m reading this week

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📚 This week in tech and markets:

  1. Understanding reasoning LLMs
    Fascinating deep dive using DeepSeek R1 to explore how LLMs handle complex reasoning tasks. Key insight: optimizing for step-by-step reasoning comes with trade-offs we need to understand.

  2. GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
    GitHub’s raising the AI game: Agent Mode for autonomous assistance and Copilot Edits that might just replace Cursor in my workflow. The dev tools space keeps getting more interesting.

  3. JavaScript Temporal is coming
    Finally, a proper solution for time handling in JavaScript! The examples show how Temporal will make our datetime headaches disappear with immutable, timezone-aware objects.

  4. Truck maker Nikola nears bankruptcy
    Reality check for the former SPAC darling: $200M quarterly loss shows building alternative fuel trucks isn’t as simple as PowerPoint slides suggested.

  5. $SPX January in context
    @northmantrader’s chart tells the story: market’s coiling up for a significant move. The question is which direction?