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Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results
We asked when and how often CodeGen tools fall short, what challenges developers face with these tools, and what they are doing with all of the free time these tools purport to offer.
An open-source development paradigm
Temporal is an open-source project focused on durable execution and workflow orchestration. Cofounder and CTO Maxim Fateev tells Ben and Ryan about the challenges of building a cloud service based on an open-source project and how Temporal is helping teams simplify their code and build more features more quickly.
Would you board a plane safety-tested by GenAI?
Ben and Ryan are joined by Robin Gupta for a conversation about benchmarking and testing AI systems. They talk through the lack of trust and confidence in AI, the inherent challenges of nondeterministic systems, the role of human verification, and whether we can (or should) expect an AI to be reliable.
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Interesting questions
How to deal as a PhD student with a working colleague who is doing private business during working hours?
Are you familiar with the expression “Paddle your own canoe”?
Was the appearance of the sand worms in David Lynch's Dune (1984) completely original to that film?
Nope, but it was original to the Dune universe.
A client did an unannounced penetration test on our platform
You say “unannounced penetration test,” I say “criminal hacking.”
How do black holes move if they are just regions in spacetime?
“The black hole is a corkscrew-shaped region of spacetime spiraling around the center of the galaxy.”
Links from around the web
Best practices for naming
How can we get better at one of the hardest problems in computer science: naming things?
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd
A University of Washington team built AI technology to help you focus on who you're listening to!
Coding accessibility: Software by the blind, for the blind
Meet the community behind a free, open-source screen reader.
Can music make your food taste better?
Could sound, of all things, change how your food tastes?
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