Augment AI Code Assistant Targets Large Development Teams
Software engineering is not a solo sport but most AI coding assistants are designed as though developers work alone. A new AI coding assistant released today, Augment AI, is designed for large...
View ArticleWhat ChatGPT and Claude Can See on Your Screen
Pasting screenshots into ChatGPT, and now Claude, has become a regular practice for me. As we first saw in my post about an LLM-backed Datasette plugin, the ability of LLMs to read text in images has...
View ArticleHow Apollo Makes LLMs More Reliable With GraphQL
NEW YORK — We all know how AI/ML can be a hit or miss for DevOps support and application development. However, in the case of GraphQL search queries, it appears to function at least reasonably well —...
View ArticleDORA 2024: AI and Platform Engineering Fall Short
While both AI and platform engineering might make developers feel more productive and satisfied at work, they may be contributing to the creation of slower, more unstable software, according to the...
View ArticleIs AI the Antidote to Software Development Complexity?
Things we expect to simplify life sometimes complicate it. Installing a new app-based home security system may require learning to use different tools or dealing with false alarms. If you get an...
View ArticleThe Open Source AI Definition Is Out
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has officially released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) on Oct. 28 at the 2024 All Things Open conference this week. It’s been a...
View ArticleAI Won’t Fix Your Software Delivery Problems
It’s complicated. While the industry faces crucial debates over intellectual property and the environmental impacts of AI, there is a more fundamental issue: How do we use these tools to deliver...
View ArticleGraphRAG 101: Increasing GenAI Accuracy and Completeness
Companies have been applying generative AI across a wide range of functions, including customer support, sales, legal, marketing and many others. As of 2024, 92% of the Fortune 500 have adopted GenAI...
View ArticleHow Salesforce Built an AI-Driven App in Under 4 Days
Word got out that the Salesforce events team planned to build a custom AI for the Dreamforce conference app. This surprised the online CRM’s AI team, which had already created and was using a new AI...
View ArticleAI Testing: More Coverage, Fewer Bugs, New Risks
The advent of generative AI is swiftly ushering in a new era in software testing. With AI test recorders designed to perform equivalent work to a human test automation engineer, GenAI has become so...
View ArticleGitHub Unveils AI Tool for Micro Apps and Improves Copilot
At its user conference in San Francisco this week, GitHub introduced a new AI tool designed to let developers build applications in natural language. Called GitHub Spark, the AI tool creates...
View ArticleThe 10x Developer vs. AI: Will Tech’s Elite Coder Be Replaced?
The mythical 10x developer. In our industry, it’s as rare as a unicorn. It’s the George Hotz-type — the kind of developer who can code a neural network from scratch in hours, jailbreak an iPhone as a...
View ArticleHow Liquid AI Is Challenging Transformer-Based AI Models
Despite their relatively impressive capabilities, most conventional deep learning AI models suffer from a number of limitations — such as not being able to recall previously learned knowledge after...
View ArticleShrinking Embeddings for Speed and Accuracy in AI Models
As AI continues to evolve, so does the need for faster, more efficient systems. Two key innovations — Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) and Binary Quantization Learning (BQL) — are setting new...
View ArticleRunning Llama 3.2 on AWS Lambda
Llama 3.2 1B is a lightweight AI model that makes it interesting for serverless applications since it can be run relatively quickly without requiring GPU acceleration. We’ll use models from Hugging...
View ArticleNavigating the Turbulent Waters of AI Security
German physicist Werner Heisenberg, on his deathbed, said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the...
View ArticleSnowflake Consolidates Platform, Expands AI
At its Build virtual event for developers today, Snowflake announced a number of new capabilities in its platform that will consolidate AI tech from two recent acquisitions, and further deliver on a...
View ArticleWho’s Responsible When AI Agents Go Rogue?
Whether you’re in the tech world or enjoying dinner with your family, there’s no escape from AI these days. Many of us have been through several cycles of AI’s evolution, and every new growth stage...
View ArticleMinIO Unveils AIStor: A Potential Object Storage Game-Changer
SALT LAKE CITY — A recent survey of over 650 IT leaders by cloud object-storage company MiniO found that “Object storage is the dominant storage type today.” To be precise,70% of their data is in...
View ArticleTop 7 Tools for Building Multimodal AI Applications
Large language models are now evolving beyond their early unimodal days, when they could only process one type of data input. Nowadays, interest is shifting toward multimodal large language models...
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