News: Coding Reality TV, AI Companies Crawl Excluded Content, and Apple Violates More EU Laws

In a rare turn of events, it was a slightly quieter week in terms of actual web development news, so the hosts round up some technology-adjacent news and drama to share.

Jack kicks off the show recounting his experience of being one of four developers in a reality show-type scenario that his friend Jason Lengstorf (host of the YouTube show “Learn with Jason”) put together. 

Next up is more drama around how AI companies are training their LLMs. Up and coming AI company Perplexity’s getting some heat for ignoring the robots.txt files on websites banning AI companies from crawling the content to teach their models.

After that, TypeScript 5.5, previously in beta stage (in episode 42), has now reached release candidate stage. It brings with it inferred type predicates, regex syntax checking, and 33% smaller package size.

News:

• Paige - TypeScript 5.5 RC
• Jack - Don’t build another effin’ chatbot - Web Dev Challenge S1E1 (Learn with Jason)
• TJ - Perplexity and robots.txt drama and Apple is the first company charged with violating the EU’s DMA rules

Bonus news:

• window.ai

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Hunting Party book
• Jack - Bridgerton on Netflix
• TJ - The Paris Apartment

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