While many surveys on software developers have found that a majority of them are using AI to generate code, the story is different in the workforce overall. Zoho Corporation’s recently released Data Privacy and Generative AI Usage report reveals that only 24% of employees are using generative AI on a daily basis, and 37% said … continue reading
Imagine searching for a crucial piece of information in a traditional search engine, only to be overwhelmed with thousands of irrelevant results. This limitation is especially problematic in critical industries like nuclear power, where precision and reliability are paramount. Enter sentence embeddings—a powerful, yet often overlooked technology that is set to transform how we access … continue reading
In this week’s episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we spoke with David Ross, Agile evangelist for Miro, about some of the misconceptions people have about Agile today, and also how Agile has evolved since its early days. Here is an edited and abridged version of that conversation: Where do you see the change … continue reading
Broadcom today expanded its enterprise agility platform, Rally, with a new on-premises version called Rally Anywhere. Previously, Rally was only available as a SaaS offering, but this new on-premises version is designed specifically to enable companies that operate globally to plan, prioritize, manage, track, and measure the value they are delivering to customers while still … continue reading
Pinecone, a vector database for scaling AI, is introducing a new bulk import feature to make it easier to ingest large amounts of data into its serverless infrastructure. According to the company, this new feature, now in early access, is useful in scenarios when a team would want to import over 100 million records (though … continue reading
Salesforce today announced several updates to Slack’s no-code automation tool, Workflow Builder, that make it easier for users to build automations in Slack. “These new features make the Slack platform even more powerful for every customer, giving both developers and end users the tools they need to easily automate any business process across their work … continue reading
Much of the conversation in the software industry is around developer experience. From new ways to measure productivity to reducing important but drudge work, organizations are looking to make life more joyful for developers. One area that’s gaining more attention is the use of buildpacks to create apps for cloud-native environments. Though not a new … continue reading
Teable is a no-code database that provides a spreadsheet-like interface for entering data and creating applications from that data. It includes all of the features you’d expect from a spreadsheet application, but with the performance of a database. Some common use cases include building a CRM, an application for office inventory management, or an employee … continue reading
For the past two years, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been working on developing a definition for Open Source AI that the industry can use to determine which models are actually considered open, and it has a new draft of the definition to share as it nears the final release in October. According to … continue reading
If there’s one thing a platform engineering team doesn’t lack, it’s ideas. When your customers are your colleagues and friends, you have an ever-expanding wishlist to improve developer experience — you only have to ask! But as with any product team, you have limited resources and the need to balance both business and engineering objectives. … continue reading
GitHub’s annual developer survey, which it launched for the first time last year, shows that a majority of developers (97%) have used an AI coding tool at some point, but perceptions of the technology vary country to country. For its survey, GitHub surveyed 2,000 developers from the U.S., Brazil, Germany, and India, with an equal … continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool in software testing, by automating complex tasks, improving efficiency, and uncovering defects that might have been missed by traditional methods. However, despite its potential, AI is not without its challenges. One of the most significant concerns is AI bias, which can lead to false results and undermine … continue reading
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
Developers will now be able to fine-tune GPT-4o to get more customized responses that are suited to their unique needs. With fine-tuning, GPT-4o can be improved using custom datasets, resulting in better performance at a lower cost, according to OpenAI. For example, developers can use fine-tuning to customize the structure and tone of a GPT-4o … continue reading
