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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Fresh data shows how bad things are, courtesy of software engineer, Theodore R. The graph shows the steep drop-off in usage accelerated with the launch of OpenAi’s chatbot, and It’s easy enough to figure out why: LLMs are the fastest and most efficient at helping developers to get “unstuck” with coding.

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An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools?

The Pragmatic Engineer

GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the results and add context on how the survey was conducted.

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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

The Pragmatic Engineer

The below topic was sent out to full subscribers of The Pragmatic Engineer , three weeks ago, in The Pulse #66. I have received several messages from people asking if they can pay to “unlock” this information for others, given how vital it is for software engineers. Odd, don’t you think?

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AI (LLMs) and Software Engineering (Writing Code)

Confessions of a Data Guy

I recently wrote on my Substack (Data Engineering Central) about how I used the new OpenAI o1 model to do some basic Data Engineering tasks surrounding PostgreSQL. It did ok.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book

The Pragmatic Engineer

Today’s newsletter closes with a full chapter from this book, visualizing when Elon Musk demanded all Twitter software engineers print out their code on paper (!!) and report for code review. In the article Turmoil at Twitter , we covered both how engineers were told to print out code on paper (!!)

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Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

The Pragmatic Engineer

On 22 February 2023, Google announced its coding competitions are coming to an end: The visual that accompanied the announcement of the end of Google’s coding competitions. Code Jam: competitive programming. Hash Code: team programming. Problems were modeled off a real Google engineering challenge.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.