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Issue 249: Prompt engineering is now software development

Welcome to ISSUE #249 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: AI-native development, self-driving cars, and how to improve your developer portfolio.

From the blog

Meet the AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering

Crystal Xu, chief of staff at FSH Tech, explains how she works with GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Replit to build software through prompt engineering.

Community Products Roadmap Update, October 2024

We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.

A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle

On today’s episode we chat with David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet and co-founder of Console.dev. We discuss his early work in cloud monitoring, his passion for the environment, and his love for sharing great developer tools.

The changing state of the Internet and related business models

If you’re weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.

Interesting questions

How can I improve my developer portfolio?

“No matter where I apply, I get declined.”

Should chat audio be encrypted before sending it?

If everybody already has access, why encrypt it?

How did “way to go” come to mean “well done”?

Like a lot of American English idioms, this one may have started with sports.

Thesis part was flagged as AI-generated even though it is all original

“Appeal, through whatever system the university has.”

Links from around the web

What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future

Are self-driving cars really the future?

Gradient background composition exercise

How much can you vary a composition just by changing a few custom CSS properties?

What are Durable Functions? A visual JavaScript primer

Durable Functions make it easy to manage complex, long-running processes in modern applications.

Do all problems have technical fixes?

Could technology *not* be the solution to a given problem? ...No way, right?


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