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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now

The Pragmatic Engineer

Within just this group the ratios between best and worst performances average about 10:1 productivity measurements, and an amazing 5:1 on program and speed space measurements! In short, the $20,000/year programmer [in 2024 terms: $120K] may well be 10 times as productive as the $10,000/year one [in 2024 numbers: $60K].”

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Data News — Week 25.02

Christophe Blefari

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 — I discovered Simon content during Christmas break and to be honest it's one of the best. He compiled a list of things we learned in 2024 about LLMs. ❤️ Transformers laid out — The best article out there to understand Transformers (which are key to understand LLMs).

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Data Trends 2024: Strategies for an AI-Ready Data Foundation

Snowflake

Since the explosion of interest in generative AI and large language models (LLMs), that is more true than ever, with business leaders discussing how quickly they should adopt these technologies to stay competitive. rose between 72% and 98% from January 2023 to January 2024. For more, read Snowflake Data Trends 2024.

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

The Pragmatic Engineer

This article was published on 14 March 2024 in The Pragmatic Engineer, for subscribers. In 1959, the programming language COBOL was designed by software engineer Grace Hopper. The stated goal of this language was to allow business people with no programming background to use it. If they could pay less, they would.

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Continuously Improving Developer Productivity at Snowflake

Snowflake

We conducted frequent user interviews across product groups, analyzing by seniority, primary programming languages and geographical locations. Progress Between February and December 2024, adoption of the four new systems increased from 10-20% to 90-95%. We used this feedback to fine-tune priorities in monthly sprints.

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Best Programming Languages for 2024

Knowledge Hut

The world of technology thrives on the foundation of programming languages. These languages, often considered the lifeblood of tech innovations, are the essence behind every app, website, software, and tech solution we engage with every day. To learn more about it you can also check Best Programming languages.

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Programming Languages & Compilers Activity Report - Q2 2024

Tweag

Although our interests and expertise have become significantly broader over the years, our love for immutable, composable and typed architecture have made functional programming and programming languages in general an important part of our DNA. smtlib-backends is a library to interface with SMT solvers via SMTLIB.