OpenAI recently announced CriticGPT, a new AI model that provides critiques of ChatGPT responses in order to help the humans training GPT models better evaluate outputs during reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLFH). According to OpenAI, CriticGPT isn’t perfect, but it does help trainers catch more problems than they do on their own. But is … continue reading
Cars today are complex pieces of software. You’ve got the infotainment system connected to your phone. You’ve got the lane keep assist that lets you know when you’re starting to sway from your lane. You may even have a backup alert system that warns you that there’s a person walking near your car. So now, … continue reading
When an event like the CrowdStrike failure literally brings the world to its knees, there’s a lot to unpack there. Why did it happen? How did it happen? Could it have been prevented? On the most recent episode of our weekly podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with Arthur Hicken, chief evangelist at the testing … continue reading
The eLxr project has launched its first release of a Debian derivative inheriting intelligent edge capabilities of Debian, with plans to expand these for a streamlined edge-to-cloud deployment approach. eLxr is an open source, enterprise-grade Linux distribution that addresses the unique challenges of near-edge networks and workloads. What Is the eLxr Project? The eLxr project … continue reading
As we saw last week with what happened as a result of a bad update from CrowdStrike, it’s more clear than ever that companies releasing software need a way to roll back updates if things go wrong. In the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with Konrad Niemiec, founder and … continue reading
Last month, the Rust Foundation announced the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, a new group dedicated to advancing the use of Rust in safety-critical software, which is software that can severely impact human life or cause damage if it fails. To talk more about the new group, Bec Rumbul, executive director and CEO of the Rust Foundation, … continue reading
Many development teams are beginning to experiment with how they can use AI to benefit their efficiency, but in order to have a successful implementation, they need to have ways to assess that their investment in AI is actually providing value proportional to that investment. A recent Gartner survey from May of this year said … continue reading
According to a recent report from Jellyfish, 65% of respondents said they experienced burnout in the last year. To dig deep into why that’s happening at such a high rate, we invited the company’s CEO and co-founder, Andrew Lau, onto the latest episode of our podcast, What the Dev? Here’s an abridged and edited version … continue reading
Writing code is mentally intensive work, and just like if someone were working a physically demanding job and their body felt exhausted afterwards, mental work can be exhausting mentally. Many knowledge workers report experiencing “cognitive fatigue” after a number of hours, after which point their ability to do tasks significantly drops. While most workers work … continue reading
There’s really but one topic that most of our industry is talking about – artificial intelligence. They talk about how it will remove menial, repetitive tasks to free up developers to work on higher value projects. They talk about LLMs, and model training, and GenAI, and trust. Our view from the cheap seats is seeing … continue reading
Assisting development with AI tools can be quite a decisive topic. Some people feel they’re going to replace developers entirely, some feel they can’t produce good enough code to be useful at all, and a lot of people fall somewhere in the middle. Given the interest in these types of tools over the last few … continue reading
The Dynamic JVM language world – especially the CFML language – has been static for some time. A big change is afoot with the creation of BoxLang, and SD Times recently had the opportunity to speak with Luis Majano, CEO of Ortus Solutions, which has brought BoxLang – currently in an open beta that will … continue reading
