On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we welcome Kate Astrid, Senior Product Engineer at Cogram and speaker at this past summer's WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America to talk all about cognitive biases in development, and how to overcome them. Of course, we also take a look at the news from the week and separate fact from fiction in a round of Fake or News.
This week we're joined by Kate Astrid, Senior Product Engineer at Cogram, to see if she can tell fact from fiction in a round of Fake or News.
Is Wordpress dropping PHP and picking up Python in its place? Did one person spend $10million on tokens in a month, and is Claude going to cure cancer?
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This week we look back at Mark Cavage's Keynote from the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, delivered with Michael Irwin and Hervé Bizira, to discuss how sandboxes don't have to slow down your agents, and safety can also mean speed in the agentic era.
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we welcome Yasmine Kordjazy, Backend Developer at The Pool Chefs Companion, to discuss her transition from linguistics lecturing to software development, to hear all about how the two might not be as different as they seem.
We are in times of turmoil in the tech world right now. On the one side, we have the AI hype in full swing. On the other, companies are heavily “healthsizing”. I just went through a round of job interviews as a prime candidate and wrote up why I didn’t take some jobs. It made […]
JavaScript now has a way to change elements, sort, reverse and splice arrays without changing the original, thus giving it immutability. Four new methods allow you to change arrays without having to create a copy first. The new methods are `with()`, `toSorted()`, `toReversed()` and `toSpliced()`. No need to create a copy with `[...arr]` first. Only […]
A question I came across the other day during a JavaScript application test was this: How would you select the n-th character from the word “Example”? The fun thing here is that there are lots of different ways to do that. The one I always forget about is that you can access the index of […]
End of this month is my last day at Microsoft. I didn’t plan this. My original plan was to keep being a representative of that company and work on the amazing products it builds. Market forces, however, caused yet another reorg and as there was no other department with openings for remote work in Germany, […]
You can download the GPT model and interrogate local files using Python without having to send any data to the cloud. PrivateGPT is a python script to interrogate local files using GPT4ALL, an open source large language model. It is pretty straight forward to set up: Clone the repo Download the LLM – about 10GB […]
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