A new challenger to rival OpenAI’s best ChatGPT model has arisen from China named DeepSeek R1. The reason it’s causing even more of a stir is because the creators claim DeepSeek R1 was trained for under $5M - a mere fraction of the cost of comparable models to date - and they’ve open sourced the code, the models, all of it.

In the same vein, both TJ and Paige had the chance to try out AI coding assistant Devin.ai firsthand last week. Devin is best described as an energetic junior programmer, and while it offers unique ways of interacting with it: Slack threads, PR comments, and has oversight over multiple repos so it can be asked to do things like compare documentation in one repo to SDK endpoints in another repo, its end value is still questionable.

TypeScript validation libraries have been catching on in recent years, and the creators of some of the most popular ones (Zod, ArkType, and Valibot) have gotten together to promote a common interface for libraries called Standard Schema.

News:

• Paige - Standard Schema promotes a common interface for TypeScript validation libraries
• Jack - DeepSeek R1
• TJ - Our firsthand experiences with Devin.ai and jokes about AI trained coding assistants

Bonus News:

• Matt Biilman coins the next big term in web dev experience: AX (“agent experience”)
• Vercel acquires dashboard and chart library Tremor
• Has the “Rust wave” crested?

Fire Starters:

• toReversed, toSorted, and toSpliced

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Recruit TV series
• Jack - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
• TJ - Onyx Storm

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