FTS v2, Cursor Clone, AWS S3


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The 1st edition of FTS went amazingly well. Here's the recording. We had senior engineers from Nvidia and Microsoft share their feedback and experiences as well. If you'd like to get in early in the 2nd edition of FTS, hit reply to sign up before we make it public!

Remember D? If not, search for "7 YoE, $40/hr, Social Media FOMO" in your inbox.

D took the project ideas we discussed seriously and has been working on them for over 5 months now.

One of the projects they demoed was a cursor clone with all features we had planned out. It was a great learning experience and currently, they are working on a multimodal one. More details here.

In other news, I'm hosting a session tonight for hands-on S3 practice:

I completed Bandish Bandits S2 over the weekend. I went in with high expectations and got disappointed. There was only one high point, in episode 7 towards the end. S1 was much better! How was your weekend?

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