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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

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Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It turns out that being able to write software is only a small part of the job.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

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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. Neural nets are also inherently stochastic, because GPU calculations around floating point operations are inherently nondeterministic.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Founders : Subomi Oluwalana, the CEO, and Emmanuel Aina, Convoy’s chief operating officer, are software engineers who worked together at Tangerine Africa and independently at various local and international tech startups. Eni Joshua, on the other hand, is a software engineer who has worked with a couple of startups.

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

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Developers can be a tough crowd. Coming up with relevant content that developers find interesting takes specific know-how, and this is where Draft.dev comes in. One of the survey respondents noted that developers are underrated as a target audience: It may be niche, but it is a large one. What inspired you to create Draft.dev?

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

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To address these challenges, the pharmaceutical firm developed Lilly Translate, a home-grown IT solution that uses natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning to generate content translation via a validated API layer, Coleman says. The product was developed via a DevSecOps agile framework,” Coleman says.

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Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M in VC backing

TechCrunch

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. This would be extraordinarily useful for companies and developers.”

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

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JLR’s move to electric drive trains is part of a wider business transformation the company calls Reimagine, under which it also plans to halve greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain and operations, compared to 2019 levels, by 2030, and to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2039. It’s been a great success,” says Battle.