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Code generation startups are attracting extraordinary investor interest two years after ChatGPT’s launch, with companies like Cursor raising $900 million at a $10 billion valuation despite operating with negative gross margins. OpenAI is reportedly in …
A new analysis argues that Stack Overflow’s decline began years before AI tools delivered the “final blow” to the once-dominant programming forum. The site’s monthly questions dropped from a peak of 200,000 to a steep collapse that began in earnest aft…
Stack Overflow remains in the midst of big changes to counter an AI-fueled drop in engagement. So “We’re wondering what kind of online communities Stack Overflow users continue to support in the age of AI,” writes their senior analyst, “and whether AI …
AI’s downside for software engineers for now seems to be a change in the quality of their work,” reports the New York Times. “Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced… The new approach to coding at many…
Mojo (the programming language) reached a milestone today.
The story so far… Chris Lattner created the Swift programming language (and answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2017 on his way to new jobs at Tesla, Google, and SiFive). But in 202…
Developers who specialize in writing smart (primarily Ethereum) contracts using the Solidity programming language have been targeted via malicious VS Code extensions that install malware that steals cryptocurrency wallet credentials. “Based on sh…
The Prossimo project (funded by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group) seeks to “move the Internet’s security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code.” Two years ago the Prossimo project made an announcement: they’d begun work on…
Amazon’s AWS Labs has created LLRT an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient serverless applications.
Slashdot reader BitterEpic wants to know what you think of it:
Traditional Java…
“The world has changed,” writes Stack Overflow’s blog. “Fast. Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we build, learn, and solve problems. Software development looks dramatically different than it did even a few years ago — and the pace of chang…
A Curl contributor replaced an ASCII letter with a Unicode alternative in a pull request, writes Curl lead developer/founder Daniel Stenberg. And not a single human reviewer on the team (or any of their CI jobs) noticed.
The change “looked identical …