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AI tools aren’t helping developers save time on software testing – but small teams are reaping the rewards
AI is doing little to help developers with the most time-consuming and painful parts of their daily workflows, according to new research. In a survey commissioned by Rainforest, three-quarters of developers using open source frameworks for test automation said they were using AI to assist with test writing and/or maintenance, both of which are notoriously time-consuming tasks. However, the productivity…
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Want developers to build secure software? You need to ditch these two programming languages
The memory safety of programming languages has been a hot topic for a number of years in the development community. Popular, high-performance languages like C and C++ suffer from the same weakness, namely they are vulnerable to bugs associated with how they use memory, which threat actors can take advantage of. Common classes of memory safety vulnerabilities are buffer overflow,…
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Get the Skills Amazon Developers Use and Build Websites Like a Pro
TL;DR: Get the 2024 Front-End Developer Course Bundle for $39.99 and learn the skills used by top companies like Netflix and Amazon to build dynamic, responsive websites. Are you looking to level up your skills and get a job building websites like Netflix, Amazon, or Etsy? With the 2024 Front-End Developer Course Bundle, you can gain all the tools and…
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Python just brushed past JavaScript to become the most popular programming language on GitHub – and a key factor is that AI developers love it
Python has overtaken JavaScript to become the most popular programming language on GitHub, according to new figures released by the firm, largely thanks to the rise of machine learning and generative AI. The coding platform revealed that there are now 518 million projects on GitHub, up by a quarter year-on-year, with 5.2 billion contributions to projects over the course of…
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“There is no one model to rule every scenario”: GitHub will now let developers use AI models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
GitHub Copilot is going multi-model, with the company unveiling a raft of new options for developers to draw from. Developers will now have the option of using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and o1-mini. They can either go with Copilot’s default, or toggle between models during a conversation with Copilot Chat about the…
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Can AI coding tools be trusted? Developers aren’t so sure – over a third are concerned about AI-generated code quality despite widespread adoption and productivity gains
Over one-third (39%) of software developers have little to no trust in AI-generated code despite most admitting to using AI coding tools daily, new research shows. Google’s ‘State of DevOps’ report found over 75% of surveyed developers use AI for at least one daily professional responsibility. Chief among use cases is code generation, with 74.9% using the technology to write…
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Software developers, security experts, and even investment bankers all report that ‘tool sprawl’ is burning budgets and wasting employees’ time
Bloated software ecosystems saturated with underutilized or inefficient SaaS tools are bogging down practitioners operating across a range of different industries, but what can be done to remedy the situation? Enterprises have complained repeatedly about being bogged down by the digital complexity in their IT estates, which is not only impacting productivity, but also expanding attack surfaces and exposing them…
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Software developers are spending more time every week fixing security issues – and it’s costing companies a fortune
Software developers are spending significantly more time – and companies a fortune – on security-related tasks such as manual application scan reviews, context switching, and secrets detection, according to new research. An IDC report for software firm JFrog found that half of developers reckon they spend 19% of their weekly hours on security-related tasks, often outside normal working hours. As…
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Best Antivirus for Software Developers in 2024
Many developers have experienced the frustration of antivirus software interfering with their work, slowing down builds, or blocking essential development tools. As a programmer, you need robust protection that doesn’t compromise your productivity or workflow. You also likely need to secure multiple devices, from your main development machine to testing environments and mobile devices. We’re here to help. Our team…
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Platform engineering has a whole host of problems — developers are struggling with disparate device and OS environments and still writing embedded code with custom solutions
Platform engineering was viewed by many organizations as a silver bullet in the pursuit to automate tasks and streamline development workflows. Yet despite this, nearly two-thirds of embedded software from organizations with a platform engineering strategy is still created with custom, ad hoc solutions, according to a new report from Forrester Consulting and Qt Group. The joint study found 65%…
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