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Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code

Martin Fowler

AI editors like Cursor can generate code with remarkable speed using LLMs, handling boilerplate and providing functional snippets for various tasks. However, when building robust systems, functional correctness is only the starting point. Code must also be safe, predictable, maintainable, and free from subtle side effects. Unmesh Joshi demonstrates, through a dialogue between a developer and an LLM , how expert guidance is crucial to transform an initial, potentially unsafe code snippet into a r

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the enterprise architect has become more crucial than ever, beyond the usual bridge between business and IT. In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns. These include everything from technical design to ecosystem management and navigating emerging technology trends like AI.

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The AI Future According to Google Cloud Next ’25: My Interesting Finds

Xebia

Google Cloud Next 2025 was a showcase of groundbreaking AI advancements. In this post, I’m excited to share some of my personal highlights and key takeaways from the conference. Gemini 2.5 and the Live API Google continues to push the boundaries of AI with their latest “thinking model” Gemini 2.5. Thinking refers to an internal reasoning process using the first output tokens, allowing it to solve more complex tasks.

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Vibe Coding: Shaping the Future of Software

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A New Era of Code Vibe coding is a new method of using natural language prompts and AI tools to generate code. I have seen firsthand that this change makes software more accessible to everyone. In the past, being able to produce functional code was a strong advantage for developers. Today, when code is produced quickly through AI, the true value lies in designing, refining, and optimizing systems.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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3 Ways AI Is Transforming Venture Capital Investment

Crunchbase News

By Ivan Nikkhoo Over the past year, every investment opportunity weve evaluated has incorporated artificial intelligence in some capacity. This isnt just a passing trend it represents a fundamental shift in the venture capital ecosystem. Like the disruptive emergence of the internet three decades ago, AI is reshaping the very foundation of how we source, assess and support innovation.

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10 most used gen AI tools in the enterprise

CIO

Gen AI has entered the enterprise in a big way since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in 2022. According to Precedence Research, the global gen AI market was over $25 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach a staggering $803 billion by 2033. And AI at Wharton, part of the Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative at the UPenns Wharton School, together with consultancy GBK Collective, also found in a study of senior decision-makers that enterprises with 1,000 or more employees invested on average more th

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What a 500-Year-Old Brewery Can Teach Us About Modern IT Architecture

Xebia

Scaling enterprise applications often brings the same challenges faced by legacy systems in other industries. On a recent visit to De Halve Maan Brewery in Bruges, I saw firsthand how this 500-year-old beer producer adapted to modern growth while preserving its historic roots. Once centralized under a single roof, the brewery eventually hit physical and operational limits as global demand surgedespecially with the launch of a new (and delicious) blond beer.

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The Collaboration Checklist for Leaders: Five Questions to Guide Better Decisions

Let's Grow Leaders

This Quick Gut Check That Can Save Your Team Hours of Rework You move fast. Decisions pile up. Calendars fill. But in the rush to deliver, its easy to overlook the moments that make or break real collaborationthe ones where people feel included, respected, and clear on whats happening and why. This simple collaboration checklist for leaders gives you a pause-and-reset moment before the next big move.

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Exaforce Lands $75M To Bring AI Agents To Security

Crunchbase News

Funding to venture-backed cybersecurity startups has trended up so far this year , and Thursday saw another sign of that. Exaforce locked up a $75 million Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures , Mayfield Fund 1 and Thomvest Ventures. The San Jose, California-based startup is helping bring artificial intelligence agents to security operations centers, or SOC.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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MITRE CVE Program Funding Set To Expire

Tenable

MITREs CVE program has been an important pillar in cybersecurity for over two decades. The lack of certainty surrounding the future of the CVE program creates great uncertainty about how newly discovered vulnerabilities will be cataloged. Background On April 15, reports circulated that the contract for funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program along with other related programs, such as Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), would be expiring on April 16.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO

Throughout history, the movement of goods, knowledge and influence has been shaped by gravitational forces not those of planets, but of human civilization. One of the most striking examples is the Silk Road , a vast network of trade routes that connected the East and West for centuries. Cities like Samarkand, Constantinople and Alexandria became gravitational hubs, attracting merchants, culture and commerce due to their strategic locations.

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6 tips for onboarding juniors into Scala

Xebia

Have you ever onboard new members into your Scala code base? Scalable Onboarding: Easing New Members into a Scala Codebase Piotr Zawia-Niedwiecki In this talk, Piotr Zawia-Niedwiecki, a senior AI engineer, shares insights from his experience onboarding over ten university graduates, focusing on the challenges and strategies to make the transition smoother.

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Normal boyhood is ADHD

David Heinemeier Hansson

Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them end up on amphetamines, like Adderall or Ritalin. These drugs allow especially teenage boys (diagnosed at 2-3x the rate of girls) to do what their mind would otherwise resist: Study subjects they find boring for long stretches of time.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Cybersecurity Funding Ticks Up Despite Slow Deal Flow

Crunchbase News

After successive quarters of decline, venture funding to cybersecurity startups nudged up in the first quarter and could see even more investment after having the largest acquisition of a private, venture-backed company ever. Total funding to VC-backed cybersecurity startups topped $2.7 billion in Q1, per Crunchbase data. Thats a 29% increase from the last quarter of 2024, and just a slight dip from the $2.8 billion raised in the same quarter last year.

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Host concurrent LLMs with LoRAX

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Businesses are increasingly seeking domain-adapted and specialized foundation models (FMs) to meet specific needs in areas such as document summarization, industry-specific adaptations, and technical code generation and advisory. The increased usage of generative AI models has offered tailored experiences with minimal technical expertise, and organizations are increasingly using these powerful models to drive innovation and enhance their services across various domains, from natural language pro

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From Copilot to agent – AI is growing up, and CISOs need to be ready

CIO

Over the past year, CISOs have wrestled with integrating AI into security processes, balancing the promised efficiencies with the need for stringent testing and adherence to security protocols. Hot on the heels of this integration effort comes another innovation: agentic AI. An evolution that marks the next leap in AI maturity, agentic AI offers both opportunities and challenges that could redefine how CISOs, CIOs, and their teams defend against cyber threats.

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Faster, Better, Cheaper: How to Measure the Business Impact of LLMs

Xebia

Understanding the Value Proposition of LLMs Large Language Models (LLMs) have quickly become a powerful tool for businesses, but their true impact depends on how they are implemented. Organizations must assess whether LLMs will bring meaningful improvements in speed, quality, and cost efficiency before committing to their deployment. In the whitepaper How to Prioritize LLM Use Cases , we show that LLMs may not always outperform human expertise, but they offer a competitive advantage when tasks

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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The Art of Facilitation: A Deepening Approach with Neuroscience, Trust, Interaction, and Tools

Agile42

Facilitation is much more than managing an event. This process is a social art that organizes people’s interactions, facilitates learning, deepens participation, and makes achieving goals possible. An effective facilitator is not just someone who manages time but also a guide who skilfully directs the group’s energy, dynamics, and emotional climate.

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Infinite Reality Buys Touchcast For $500M As M&A Spree Continues

Crunchbase News

Spacial computing and AI unicorn Infinite Reality announced today that it will acquire agentic AI company Touchcast in a cash and stock deal valued at $500 million. The purchase is the latest in a long spree of acquisitions by 6-year-old Infinite Reality. Per Crunchbase data, the company has made 10 acquisitions to date, including eight since last April.

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Agile takeaways from building a multi-brand digital umbrella

Agile Alliance

Detailing the challenges, solutions, and outcomes of a project that sought to unify diverse brands under one digital umbrella. The post Agile takeaways from building a multi-brand digital umbrella first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Judgment Day is coming… for AI

CIO

Artificial intelligence has great potential in predicting outcomes. While AI can predict the likelihood of precipitation, it most likely wont help you dress or prepare for inclement weather. That preparation involves more than the probability of rain or snow. Humans make extremely subtle judgment calls on what to wear based on their preferences, intuition, or life experiences.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Infinidat Recognizes GSI and Tech Alliance Partners for Extending the Value of Infinidat’s Enterprise Storage Solutions

Infinidat

Infinidat Recognizes GSI and Tech Alliance Partners for Extending the Value of Infinidats Enterprise Storage Solutions Adriana Andronescu Thu, 04/17/2025 - 08:14 Infinidat works together with an impressive array of GSI and Tech Alliance Partners the biggest names in the tech industry. Through our Tech Alliance Partner program, the complementary technologies and services of our tech partners are the basis for providing an extension of Infinidats enterprise storage and next-generation data protec

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The new Framework 13 HX370

David Heinemeier Hansson

The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers. It runs our HEY test suite in 2m7s, compared to 2m43s for the 7840U (and 2m49s for a M4 Pro!). It's also about 20% faster in most single-core tasks than the 7840U. But is that enough to warrant the jump in price? AMD's latest, best chips have suddenly gotten pretty expensive.

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March Mints 11 New Unicorns, As $200B Is Added Through Up Rounds And Board Posts Strong Exits 

Crunchbase News

Eleven new companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, adding around $16 billion in value to the board. Another $200 billion in value was added via up rounds for companies already on the board, and March was a strong exit month for unicorn companies. Let’s dive in. Exits In total, seven companies collectively valued at around $48 billion as private companies left the board last month via IPOs or M&A deals.

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The OODA Network: The Challenges and Promise of Deep Tech for National Security Innovation and American Competitiveness

Ooda Loop

Leaders from the U.S. intelligence and defense sectors are sounding the alarm: The pace of technological disruption is outstripping institutional agilityespecially when it comes to adopting dual-use innovations and mitigating emerging threats. The post The OODA Network: The Challenges and Promise of Deep Tech for National Security Innovation and American Competitiveness appeared first on OODAloop.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

CIO

At Cloud Next 2025, Google announced several updates that could help CIOs adopt and scale agents while reducing integration complexity and costs. The event focused on providing enterprises with an AI-optimized platform and open frameworks that make agents interoperable. During his one hour forty minute-keynote, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud showcased updates around most of the companys offerings, including new large language models (LLMs) , a new AI accelerator chip, new open source framewo

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Answer the Seven So-Whats?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

A great tool for thinking through the consequences of an action is the Seven So-Whats. Good critical thinking processes don’t just look at causes, they look at consequences as well. A great tool for thinking through the consequences of an action is the Seven So-Whats. The Seven So-Whats force you to go from an early answer to think through all the possible implications and future consequences of your action.

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Bio-IT World 2025: Betting Big on AI, Investing in Drug Discovery, Transforming Drug Development

IDC

Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo was held from April 2nd to 4th, 2025, in Boston. It brought together an innovation ecosystem of investors, TechBios, and life sciences tech companies, a few system integrators, and biotechs and big pharma. The floor buzzed with discussions around innovation, partnering, and technology disruption.

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