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Rethinking programming

O'Reilly

The programming world will increasingly be split between highly trained professionals and people who don’t have a deep background but have a lot of experience building things. We need to think about how programming is taught. Minecraft has unwittingly taught a generation of grade-schoolers how to program in Java.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

For this, best practices would be to segregate commands from data, use parameterized SQL queries, and eliminate the interpreter by using a safe application program interface, if possible. Numerous organizations offer databases of these weaknesses, such as the Snyk Intel Vulnerability Database.

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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. Security, databases, and programming languages effortlessly remain up to date and secure in the serverless model. OneAgent supports nearly all major programming languages and tools. Services scale to meet demand.

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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Utilizing cloud platforms is especially useful in areas like machine learning and artificial intelligence research. What is workload in cloud computing?

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The ChatGPT Surge

O'Reilly

ChatGPT might simplify common tasks, from doing research to writing essays to basic programming, so many people want to use it to save labor—though getting it to do quality work is more difficult than it seems at first glance. We’ll leave the issue of whether this is “cheating” to the users, their teachers, and their employers.)

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Intelligence and Comprehension

O'Reilly

Comprehension is a poorly-defined term, like many terms that frequently show up in discussions of artificial intelligence: intelligence, consciousness, personhood. I certainly wouldn’t bet that it’s impossible to program something that simulates volition, if not volition itself (another of those fundamentally ambiguous terms).

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Prompting Isn’t The Most Important Skill

O'Reilly

This work is increasingly falling under the rubric RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), in which a program takes a request, looks up data relevant to that request, and packages everything in a complex prompt. I’ve made a similar argument about the use of AI in programming. Designing automated prompting systems is clearly important.