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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

A first, smaller wave of these stories included Magic.dev raising $100M in funding from Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub from 2018-2021,) and Daniel Gross (cofounder of search engine Cue which Apple acquired in 2013,) to build a “superhuman software engineer.”          PROGRAM-ID.

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Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The concept of remote development environments stretches back to the dawn of computer programming. A big difference is that in the case of old-school timesharing, the goal was to save on infrastructure costs, as the cost of CPU cycles was far higher than programming time.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

A first, smaller wave of these stories included Magic.dev raising $100M in funding from Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub from 2018-2021,) and Daniel Gross (cofounder of search engine Cue which Apple acquired in 2013,) to build a “superhuman software engineer.”          PROGRAM-ID.

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Snowflake To Acquire Ponder, Boosting Python Capabilities In the Data Cloud

Snowflake

This flexibility in language and programming constructs not only optimizes data architecture but also turbocharges development cycles, fortifies governance, enhances security, and more. We are looking forward to working with the incoming Ponder team and the Modin community to bring additional Python capabilities to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

The Pragmatic Engineer

This last one was a great adventure; we went to the US to join the TechStars 2013 accelerator. At Uber, they ranged from mobile feature teams (called program teams – here is some history about this split ,) platform teams, networking teams, and infra ones. I stayed with this ERP company for a year.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Operating on the principles of packet switching, it queued up data and subdivided it into 128-byte packets programmed with a destination and address. The computer sent the packets along whichever route would move it fastest to a destination.”

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

He was learning to code, and needed help in a programming competition, because he needed a team of three. This was around 2013, and EC2 was one of the hottest services at Amazon. From learning to code in Australia, to working in Silicon Valley How did I learn to code?