O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. In programming, Python is preeminent. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

It can explain code that you don’t understand, including code that has been intentionally obfuscated. Sydney The internal code name of the chatbot behind Microsoft’s improved search engine, Bing. Bard Google’s code name for its chat-oriented search engine, based on their LaMDA model, and only demoed once in public.

Google 104

Google Open Source Programming Code 104

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Fetishizing pair programming. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. It’s not about getting software developers to write code faster. What is modern Agile? Neckbeards?

Artificial Intelligence 21

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