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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. The insatiable demand for software.

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Your Generative AI strategy could use a startup’s touch

CIO

Can it be solved with existing AI or even other tools? If your business relies heavily on software engineering, you might consider trying tools that will help support your developers with code creation, such as paired programming. Treat GenAI with caution, as you would adopting any other new tool.

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Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the most effective offer to each shopper

TechCrunch

Conti (who founded the company with Lionel Vital and Joseph Gilley) is a former Uber software engineer and researcher himself. Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. The startup was part of the summer 2020 class at accelerator Y Combinator. It also raised a $1.32

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Generative AI is a make-or-break moment for CIOs

CIO

And, in fact, McKinsey research argues the future could indeed be dazzling, with gen AI improving productivity in customer support by up to 40%, in software engineering by 20% to 30%, and in marketing by 10%. Hardly a day goes by without some new business-busting development on generative AI surfacing in the media.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

TechCrunch

-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. But Piero Molino, the co-founder of AI development platform Predibase , says that inadequate tooling often exacerbates them. These are ultimately organizational challenges.

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Spend management space sees a large raise, and layoffs, in the same week

TechCrunch

Axios reported last week that Teampay, a corporate card company, confirmed it laid off 30% of its 100-person staff “in two instances in recent months.” Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence.

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Four short links: 20 July 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A Bug-Sized Camera for Bug-Sized Robots and Bug-Sized Bugs — With a focus on small size and efficiency, they started with an off-the-shelf ultra low-power image sensor that’s 2.3 An astonishing piece of engineering, but also a disturbing advance against privacy. mm wide and weighs 6.7 They stuck on a Bluetooth 5.0