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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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Lessons from the field: How Generative AI is shaping software development in 2023

CIO

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. It helps increase developer productivity and efficiency by helping developers shortcut building code.

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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. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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Best Assessment Software in 2024 for Tech Recruiting

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Assessment software has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Key Features of Assessment Software: Accuracy : Precision is non-negotiable. The best software allows for tailored assessments, aligning with specific objectives and criteria. Customization : Flexibility is key.

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Best Assessment Software in 2024 for Tech Recruiting

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Assessment software has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Key Features of Assessment Software: Accuracy : Precision is non-negotiable. The best software allows for tailored assessments, aligning with specific objectives and criteria. Customization : Flexibility is key.

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Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Netlify

Netlify

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder! The Problem.

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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

CIO

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. Coding can be a challenge, but I’ve never spent more than two weeks trying to figure out what is wrong with the code.