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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

The Pragmatic Engineer

This article is one out of five sections from The Pulse #119. To get articles like this in your inbox, subscribe here. In some ways, it feels to me that StackOverflow is the victim of LLMs ingesting data on its own Q&A site, and providing a much better interface for developers to solve programming problems with.

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Data News — mid-2023 popular articles

Christophe Blefari

🧜‍♂️ ( credits ) Hey, this is a mid-2023 edition with some of my favourite articles and the popular articles that have been shared this year in the newsletter. There isn't any fancy calculation on how to find the popular articles. Popular articles I have sorted the articles by bucket.

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

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this article, we cover one out of five topics from today’s subscriber-only article What Changed in 50 Years of Computing. This is how Brooks put it: “Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. (.)   The program clerk. The tester.

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Data News — Week 25.02

Christophe Blefari

❤️ Transformers laid out — The best article out there to understand Transformers (which are key to understand LLMs). Python and Java still leads the programming language interest, but with a decrease in interest (-5% and -13%) while Rust gaining traction (+13%), not sure it's related, tho. Not really digest.

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How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team.

The Pragmatic Engineer

See a longer version of this article here: Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges. It’s also good at programming-related questions, and there was a point when I questioned if ChatGPT could be  more capable  than humans, even in areas like programming, where humans have done better, until now?

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

The Pragmatic Engineer

In this article, we cover one out of three topics from last week’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. Some articles about Cognition AI’s product launch. In 1959, the programming language COBOL was designed by software engineer Grace Hopper.          PROGRAM-ID.

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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. Some articles about Cognition AI’s product launch. In 1959, the programming language COBOL was designed by software engineer Grace Hopper.          PROGRAM-ID.