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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Disallow anything outside the scope of the original task, such as code cleanup or other drive-by improvements. Pivot frequently.

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7 Effective Tips on Hiring Remote Software Developers

The Crazy Programmer

Getting more for less – these four words describe the main reason why companies opt for hiring remote developers. So, how do you hire dedicated development team you won’t regret working with down the road? If you aren’t 100% certain about your needs and requirements, you’re guaranteed to overspend or make a bad hire (or both).

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

TechCrunch

According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. And today, he explained, many ML teams are working with ad-hoc tooling or simply without software assistance. monitoring ( Atlassian , Datadog , etc.), and the like.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

CIO

The problem, of course, is that many experts — even those affiliated with major organizations — are sometimes wrong. To be viable, a consultant’s solution should address each client’s unique needs, says Olexander Paladiy, product director at software product studio and consulting firm Railsware. Welcome to the golden age of experts.

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Outsourcing Software Development Best Practices

Luis Goncalves

Product development is a long and laborious process. And because of this more and more companies are using Outsourcing Software Development services to help them to reduce the time to market. Product Management and Software Development: The Big Clash. Software development is not an easy feat.