GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Let’s explore if our audience can tell the difference. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• GitHub CoPilot - Your AI Pair-Programmer
• AWS Launches Infinidash (and it's entirely fictional)
• Infinidash stuff on GitHub, where technical stuff lives. 
• Clarke’s Three Laws
• College athletes can now make money on Name, Image and Likeness (NIL)

SOMETIMES SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW COMES ALONG...

It might be 5yrs, 10yrs or 100yrs, but eventually (sometimes) things change and they might be awesome! 

CAN WE EVER FIGURE OUT IF THE NEW STUFF IS REALLY NEW AND AWESOME?

GitHub CoPilot suggests lines of code or entire functions, within the context of your GitHub Codespace. It’s built on OpenAI Codex.

• Real issues: Does it align licenses? Are the code suggestions secure? Do the suggestions write tests or docs? 
• Maybe issues: Do we need good coders anymore? 
• Maybe opportunities: Can you bootstrap an entire company on top of this? Enabling more people to code more easily is a good thing, right? 

AWS Infinidash is designed to address the one major issue that AWS hasn’t addressed yet - using their network is really expensive and it never gets cheaper. [NOTE: Pure Speculation, might not be 100% (or 1%) correct]

•  Hybrid Cloud is a real thing, and IT networking is free, because you never see a bill for it.
• AWS now loves Hybrid Cloud, and they also love the environment (it’s in the new Amazon Leadership Principles), so AWS Snowmobile isn’t a realistic options because it’s not 100% electric and self-driving, and because Amazon can now package your USB drives in the same packages they use with Amazon Prime, so they’ll be back daily to pick up data - Infinidash Prime.
• Within AWS, all networking across AZs and Regions is now free, because people can’t follow the AWS best practices, and AWS doesn’t like people complaining when there is an outage that would be avoided by using Multi-AZ or Multi-Region. 
• But how will AWS make money? Well, they invented Lambda with microsecond billing, so they really don’t even want you to use EC2 anymore. This has all been a long-game to get more people using Amazon Prime. 

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