Toots du Jour (Dec 19)
- How to create a Kotlin Multiplatform library? #kmp #kotlin iteo.medium.com/how-to-create-… #
- Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers #comcast #xfinity techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comc… #
Land of Bad
When a Delta Force team is ambushed in enemy territory, a rookie officer refuses to abandon them. Their only hope lies with an Air Force drone pilot as the eyes in the sky during a brutal 48-hour battle for survival.
Mobibot & Gemini AI
Last night, as an experiment, I added support for Google's Vertex AI Gemini API to Mobibot, the #mobitopia IRC channel bot. I used Guillaume's very concise guide. You can try it out by joining the #mobitopia channel on irc.libera.chat and typing something like:
mobibot: gemini write a koltin class to append two files togetherYes, the typo is intentional.
Mobibot also supports ChatGPT, so you can easily compare the results.
The implementation was pretty straight forward using the vertexai library, although I found the ChatGPT API easier to use overall. Gemini seems to be quite slow and overly verbose, but the quality of the answers feels superior. Gemini has no real-time data, so asking things like: the number of days until Christmas, yields some pretty funny results.
I have no doubts speed, etc. will improve over time. I thought most articles about Gemini taking over ChatGPT were kind of fluff pieces, but there might something to it.