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Andrew has worked in many roles, including as Executive Manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he established and grew a platform engineering function that supported 7,000 engineers.

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Shout to Amelio for earning a stellar question badge and helping over six hundred thousand people with this gem: Getting the name of a variable as a string

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Mobb offers AI-powered technology that automates vulnerability remediations with a goal of helping development teams significantly reduce their security backlogs and free up more time for innovation. 

Check out their blog or dive into their docs.

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Shoutout to Konrad, who won a Stellar Question badge for What is the difference between private and protected members of C++ classes?.

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Find out why others have joined Shell.

If you want to experience what being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies looks like, they’re hiring.

Great question, Alexander Myshov! This badge was awarded for Are arrow functions faster (more performant, lighter) than ordinary standalone function declaration in v8?

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William is the CEO of Lightning AI and the creator of PyTorch Lightning, the lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research.

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ICYMI: Across tech, layoffs are boosting share prices.

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Shoutout to Brian61354270, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' in Python 3.12.

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Is it possible to make a PDF bigger than Germany? Here’s one larger than the known universe. As its creator says, “it’s mostly empty space, but so is the universe.”

Massachusetts is leading the way in the skills-based hiring revolution by eliminating degree requirements for state jobs.

Did you miss these deeply uncanny AI-generated food images, from the conjoined chickens to the macaroni and cheese rendered in shapes formerly unknown to geometry? Never fear; you can still see some here.

You may have forgotten about crypto (or at least tried), but more than 2% of the United States’s electricity generation goes to large-scale crypto mining.

Stack Overflow user Jeff Allen earned a Great Question badge for Create a Vector of All Days Between Two Dates, which has helped 85,000 R users.

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AI-generated code is “not equivalent to reliable and robust code, especially in the context of real-world software development,” according to a new study whose title got our attention.

Tech layoffs continue in the wake of the pandemic hiring boom, sending some share prices into the sky.

Take a look at how AI coding assistants are already changing the way code is made.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user nonopolarity, who earned a Great Question badge by asking Can someone explain SSH tunnel in a simple way?.

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A theory explores how to play DOOM inside a human cell. Fair warning, you'll need about 600 years to complete the game.

Looking for a good prompt builder to help you get the most out of your LLM? Try this one or explore this huge collection of prompts.

Startup Twin Labs wants to build a product that automates repetitive tasks by letting AI take over your cursor.

Harvard Medical School researchers published a study showing that the CRISPR system can encode information in living cells “as complex as a digitized image of a human hand.” Read more.

Three cheers for Max Lybbert, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering Python faster than C++? How does this happen?.

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Intuit shares more about their generative AI operating system (GenOS) in this Medium blog. 

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Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Mohsin Naeem for answering the question How can I extract metadata from an MP3 file?

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The estate of the late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of an hour-long AI-generated comedy special that mimics Carlin’s distinctive delivery and material. [Ed. note: not actually AI, still lawsuit.]

Prefer your AI more Freudo-Marxist? Here’s a never-ending, AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. You’re welcome.

Google’s Bard surpassed GPT-4 to claim the second spot on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard.

Agile development is faltering at big companies, and a recent report cites developer burnout as a factor. But maybe the problem lies in companies’ (mis)understanding of agile.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Emil Laine, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How can I include all of the C++ Standard Library at once?.

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Find out what’s new with ML in production.

Machine learning models must learn to unlearn.

Open-source game engine Godot now has a free Nintendo Switch port for game developers.

We’ve previously hosted Godot cofounder and lead developer Juan Linietsky on the podcast.

Stack Overflow user areller earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to How to call a destructor.

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