Programming Throwdown Episode 174 DevOps.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. So this episode, we're going to cover DevOps. For people who are new to the show, we're going to cover it somewhere in the middle. We'll talk about news and some other things first. That is the number one comment we get is why did you take so long to talk about

DevOps? You're going to learn a whole bunch of cool stuff today. If you're a brand new listener,

welcome to the show. So I wanted to kick it off with a project that I built, which I'm pretty

proud of. It's one of these things, you probably have this feeling, whether you're doing woodworking or stuff in the backyard or robotics or anything, you have a project and you say to yourself, this is a coin toss, whether this is going to work or not. And it's kind of exciting. It's like, you know, it's kind of like a rush because that sort of randomness, right?

And then, you know, it really is a coin toss.

Half of them, you know, don't work and just decay into dust.

Half the projects work really well.

This is one that I feel like works pretty well.

I created a LinkedIn social media bot, but it doesn't do what you think.

Most of these bots go out and harass people or maybe that's not the right word, solicit people, right?

Mine is the opposite.

So mine is a defender.

It defends me against the other bots.

And so the way this works is it uses a large language model.

So I'm using chat chvety.

It has like in the cookies file, uses a headless browser with the right cookies set up.

So it's logged into my LinkedIn account.

Goes on LinkedIn, accepts any connection requests, and then goes to my messages account, goes on LinkedIn, accepts any, you know, connection requests,

and then goes to my messages, looks at the unread messages, and I ask ChatGPT, you know,

is this a solicitation? Like, is this someone trying to sell me engineering services?

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