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Developers are on edge

David Heinemeier Hansson

It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. If you zoom out, though, developers are still flying high on tailwinds that took them to the moon over the past decade. And exuberant tech analysts told cabbies in 2017 that self-driving cars were going to put them all out of a job in a hot minute.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

Prior to founding AppMap, she founded DevOps security startup Conjur, which was acquired by CyberArk in 2017, and served as chief data officer for Generation Health, later acquired by CVS. We don’t believe you should be charged for self-awareness in programming,” Lawler said. “If

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The US is losing crypto talent as blockchain devs seek safer havens

TechCrunch

But it seems now the United States is the one seeing talent fleeing to other parts of the world, at least as far as blockchain developers are concerned. The number of blockchain developers in the U.S. has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. According to the report, the U.S.’

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

TechCrunch

The idea is to let developers test AI systems and biases — that is, the edge cases where the systems perform poorly — to reduce the time needed for validation, Choi explained in an email interview. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. Managers need an unobtrusive way to proactively learn about bottlenecks affecting their teams.

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Botpress nabs $15M Series A to help developers build conversational apps

TechCrunch

Botpress , a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping. Today it announced an $15 million Series A from Decibel and Inovia Capital.