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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate (opens the original)
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups.Today, we cover:Writing code by hand: is it over? In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?Amazon and Meta struggle to hire and … Read more
How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows (opens the original)
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AI is changing how us software engineers build software, and developers’ tool preferences are rapidly evolving with it – like how AI coding harnesses have gotten very popular. Likewise, future versions of the world’s leading operating systems look certain to feature more support for agentic tools.To find out how things are changing, we talked with the folks at tech giant Microsoft who shared in detail their plan for Windows, and how AI will play a part. It comes after the company’s previous AI e
AI Skills with Matt Pocock (opens the original)
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Stream the latest episodeListen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom.Brought to You by<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qhi0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory (opens the original)
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It’s rare to work with an unlimited token budget, but at OpenAI, that’s what all engineers, researchers, finance colleagues, and marketing folks do. Recently, I visited one of the world’s leading frontier labs to find out how OpenAI operates today – and for a glimpse at where software engineering might be headed as a profession.Plenty has changed since I visited OpenAI’s headquarters last year. Within a year, Codex has gone from a “nice-to-have” tool to being the backbo
The Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages (opens the original)
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups.Today, we cover:New trend of CPU shortages: after a GPU shortage and memory shortage driven by AI companies, we’re now experienceding a CPU shortage, thanks to AI agents using a lot more CPU with tool usage. If you will need more compute in the future: secure it now… Read more
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