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Gen AI: The software developer’s new best friend

CIO

Software developers, no matter how skilled, face tasks they’re not very good at. Generative AI platforms like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have been trained on billions of lines of code for many programming languages and are surprisingly good at predicting what lines of code developers should use next.

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CodeSOD: Lines of Code

The Daily WTF

When reviewing the code, she found that the previous developers went with the per-line contract: public card getCard ( int cardID ) { if ( ( ( 1 > 0 ) && ( 0 < 1 ) ) || ( (( 21 + 3 )== 24 ) && ( 3 <= 3 ) ) || ( 0 ! Advertisement] Keep the plebs out of prod. Brittany went with the fixed-rate.

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CodeSOD: A Private Code Review

The Daily WTF

Now, veteran or not, there is a code review process, so everything Blair does goes through code review. For example, he thinks static is a code smell, and thus removes the keyword any time he sees it. Jessica was not the one who reviewed this code, but adds: I won’t blame the code reviewer for letting this through.

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Taking consumer subscription software to the great outdoors

TechCrunch

The app sits at the confluence of two trends: An increased interest in outdoor recreation and travel, and an explosion in consumer subscription software (CSS). CSS companies don’t have to please advertisers, and they can design purely for their users. I think of different outdoor activities almost like individual genres on Netflix.

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Experiences promoting niche software

Successful Software

This is a guest post from fellow software developer, Simon Kravis. It’s sometimes said that software development is only 10% of what’s required to earn money from software and I can attest to that. Below is the graph for an article on tagging.

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Sydney-based startup Upflowy raises $4M to optimize web experiences with its no-code solution

TechCrunch

The Australia-based startup, which just raised $4 million, has built a platform that offers drag and drop tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and mobile apps, and the best part is businesses don’t need to know any code to engage with it. Upflowy is due to set up a base in the U.S. This is just the first step.

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The crackdown on pixel tracking in telehealth is a warning for every startup

TechCrunch

These near-invisible bits of code are typically embedded in web pages to share information about users’ activity, often for analytics. Cerebral said these trackers inadvertently collected sensitive user data since it began operating in October 2019. In its disclosure to the U.S.