Large language models: The foundations of generative AI
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Bard, and Llama have caught the public’s imagination and garnered a wide variety of reactions. They are also expected to grow dramatically in the coming years. According to Dimension Market Research, The Glo...
3 key features of Postman’s AI Agent Builder
The software landscape is shifting from passive business processes to dynamic, AI-driven workflows. AI agents—systems that interact with APIs, make decisions, and execute complex tasks—are at the forefront of this transformation. While large langu...
How to keep AI hallucinations out of your code
It turns out androids do dream, and their dreams are often strange. In the early days of generative AI, we got human hands with eight fingers and recipes for making pizza sauce from glue. Now, developers working with AI-assisted coding tools are also ...
What if generative AI can’t get it right?
Large language models (LLMs) keep getting faster and more capable. That doesn’t mean they’re correct. This is arguably the biggest shortcoming of generative AI: It can be incredibly fast while simultaneously being incredibly wrong. This may not be...
AI coding assistants limited but helpful, developers say
AI coding assistants still need to mature, but they are already helpful according to several attendees of a recent Silicon Valley event for software developers. Software developers who attended the DeveloperWeek conference in Santa Clara, CA, on Febru...
Buckle up for the supercharged Python interpreter
In this edition of our biweekly Python newsletter: The next version of Python brings an all-new variety of speed boost. Python packages may soon pack better labeling for their ingredients. Cython 3.1 tees up new features for converting Python to C. An...
Avoiding the cloud migration graveyard
Fictional global retailer StyleHaven embarked on its cloud migration journey, eager to modernize its systems and improve its customers’ experience. StyleHaven opted to “lift and shift,” assuming its existing infrastructure would transfer to the ...
Buckle up for faster Python programs
In this edition of our biweekly Python newsletter: The next version of Python brings an all-new variety of speed boost. Python packages may soon pack better labeling for their ingredients. Cython 3.1 tees up new features for converting Python to C. An...
Sunsetting Create React App
Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework. We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework.
JetBrains’ Ktor adds CLI for simpler project creation
JetBrains’ Ktor 3.1.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side applications, is now available, featuring a command-line tool for simpler creation of projects. The update also brings new features to server...
Announcing TypeScript 5.8 RC
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 5.8! To get started using the Release Candidate, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc Let’s take a look at what’s new in TypeSc...
How to use mutexes and semaphores in C#
Thread synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently. The Mutex and Semaphore classes in .NET represent two of the most important related concepts. Let’s understand what both of these do and when w...
Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime
Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops. Since then it’s been released in drip-feed for...
Dynamic web apps with HTMX, Python, and Django
Python is one of the most popular programming language today, in part due to its large ecosystem of tools for data science and AI applications. But Python is also a popular choice for developing web apps, particularly using the Django web framework. I...
Rust memory management explained
Rust shares many concepts with other languages intended for systems programming. For instance, Rust distinguishes between memory allocated from the stack and memory allocated from the heap. It also ensures that variables declared within a scope are un...
Keep your code open to possibilities
I’ve been developing software for many years now. Decades. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and I dare to think that I’ve collected some wisdom about software development worth sharing with others. At some point, you think “Yeah, I’ve got...
Don’t use public ASP.NET keys (duh), Microsoft warns
Microsoft Threat Intelligence in December observed a “threat actor” using a publicly available ASP.NET machine key to inject malicious code and fetch the Godzilla post-exploitation framework, a “backdoor” web shell used by intruders to execute...
Why the generative AI hype is good
Elon Musk predicts artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2025. Former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner says AGI by 2027. Futurist Ray Kurzweil bets on 2029 for AI surpassing human intelligence. OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever declared that lan...
