Best of Better Programming — February 2023

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   NestJS: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

   This post discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of NestJS, including its value for teams, potential issues, and testing complexities.

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   We Rewrote Our Project With Rust… and It’s Almost 40X Faster

   Discover the benefits of rewriting a project in Rust, including fewer bugs, improved performance, and reduced memory usage.

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   I Used GPT-3 to Find 213 Security Vulnerabilities in a Single Codebase

   GPT-3 used to find 213 security vulnerabilities in a codebase, outperforming a commercial tool that found only 99 vulnerabilities.

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   Is Google’s Flan-T5 Better Than OpenAI GPT-3?

   Google's Flan-T5 is a language model that is being compared to OpenAI's GPT-3. Flan-T5 is an open-source transformer-based architecture that uses a text-to-text approach for NLP. It requires fewer parameters, can be trained faster, and is more accessible to the general public. It is also open source, making it accessible for anyone to use for their own projects.

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   A Little Bit of Rust

   The post explores a problem and its solution presented by Donald Knuth in the 80s, along with an alternative solution provided by Doug McIlroy. It discusses the shortcomings of the original solution and proposes improvements to optimize the algorithm. The post also provides the code in Rust to solve the problem efficiently.

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