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What LinkedIn learned leveraging LLMs for its billion users

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For LinkedIn, this was no different, as its road to LLM insights was anything but smooth, said LinkedIn’s Juan Bottaro, a principal software engineer and tech lead. User experience When dealing with such a large member base, accuracy and relevancy metrics can “give a false sense of comfort,” Bottaro said.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

Be proactive and serve with empathy It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to be active in ensuring that all services delivered to end users are fully vetted and tested to the point where there’s no room for complaints. It’s important to have a tested approach that starts each engagement in the same way with predictable results.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

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Gartner’s surveys and data from client inquiries confirm that developer productivity remains a top priority for software engineering leaders.” Development teams also often experience bottlenecks that prevent smooth workflows, adds Gibson, including intricate code, complex architecture, or insufficient automation and testing.

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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. So with software, if you ask the exact same question, you will always get the exact same answer. It’s important to understand this, and why.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO

We did side-by-side testing,” he says. In testing, gen AI was also particularly good at generating test cases and creating dummy data for testing. But, according to the report’s authors, the survey data also shows AI has a neutral or even negative effect on team performance and software delivery performance.

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Here’s The Crucial Metrics To Measure Your Software Development Team Effectiveness

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Software Measurement” is the baseline element of software engineering. But, writing the lines of code or the number of hours spent at the office is not how you evaluate the effectiveness of a software developer in doing their job. What Actually Is Software Productivity? Available: This can be used to benchmark.