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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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The CIO’s primary job: Developing future IT leaders

CIO

But it is equally vital to identify those people who can develop into managers and create a path forward for them as well. The most innovative engineer does not always become the most successful engineering manager. Changing the equation IT has not traditionally tried very hard to develop strong managers from within.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

TechCrunch

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.

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Top 10 Soft Skills for Software Developers in 2022

The Crazy Programmer

There was a time when the companies evaluated the performance of a software engineer based on how quickly they delivered the tasks. But, 2022 is a different scenario in software development teams. Today called developers, professional software engineers are aware of the importance of soft skills. Creativity.

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

TechCrunch

In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system. the number of edge cases).

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

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. Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code. Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production.