The Breakpoint

The Latest

Five of the most interesting recent dev tool launches on the site. 

Lovable lets you ship apps that come with authentication, data storage, and AI built-in faster than just coding it yourself. How much faster? According to the team up to 20x. 

Trieve Vector Inference is an in-VPC solution for fast, unmetered embedding inference. It provides quick embeddings using any private, custom, or open-source models from dedicated embedding servers hosted in your own cloud.

HumanLayer is an API and SDK that enables tool-calling AI Agents to contact humans for help, feedback, and approvals. It’s an interesting way of merging AI and human work to coexist in a more mutually beneficial setting. 

LuneAI seeks to replace standard LLMs for coding tasks by minimizing hallucinations with “expert” LLMs trained specifically on certain technical topics. It integrates into Cursor or any other code generation application. As a bonus — you can contribute “Lunes” (models trained on specific docs) and get paid for it!

Langfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform that helps teams iterate on and improve their LLM applications with features: LLM tracing, metrics, llm-as-a-judge, evaluations, prompt management, datasets testing and more.

Python on top

GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report dropped some big reveals about the state of open source. The headliner? Python has officially dethroned JavaScript as GitHub’s most popular language—probably thanks to AI and data science blowing up. Speaking of AI, the report highlights a 98% surge in generative AI projects on the platform, with contributions up nearly 60%.

But it’s not just about code; it’s about coders. GitHub’s user base is growing like crazy, especially in India, Africa, and Latin America. India alone is set to outpace the U.S. in developers by 2028. Oh, and Jupyter Notebooks are trending hard—up 92%—cementing their role as the go-to for data scientists and ML engineers.

Bonus

Workflows can always be better, here’s a pro-tips crowdsourced from the dev community:

“Pro tip for visionOS developers: When launching your app from Xcode using Mac Virtual Display, simply glance to the side. Your app window will open without blocking your Xcode view, making for a seamless development experience” — @gerogerber