🔥 Parallel Looping, AI-Driven Debugging, and the Future of Engineering

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Hello Developers!

In this edition, we explore the integration of AI into software development and management. Discover how GitHub Copilot can streamline your debugging process within your IDE, enhancing efficiency and robustness. We also discuss the potential downside of AI reliance, examining concerns that it may lead to a generation of programmers with diminished coding skills. Additionally, we delve into the importance of empathy in engineering management, featuring insights from senior engineering manager Caitlin Weaver on leading teams effectively. Finally, learn how APIs and AI can be harnessed for intelligent automation, driving scalable and secure AI model training.

Dive in and keep coding!

Using Parallel Looping in BoxLang - speed up loops over arrays, structures, and queries by adding an extra argument to enable parallel execution.

How to debug code with GitHub Copilot - GitHub Copilot can streamline your debugging process by troubleshooting in your IDE, analyzing pull requests, and more, helping you tackle issues faster and more robustly.

AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers - After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.

🎙️ One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy - a talk with senior engineering manager Caitlin Weaver about how her childhood fascination with computers led to her leading CLEAR’s Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team, her experiences in DevOps, the role of empathy in engineering management, and how the platform engineering landscape is evolving.

How to harness APIs and AI for intelligent automation - APIs have steadily become the backbone of AI systems, connecting data and tools seamlessly. Discover how they can drive scalable and secure training for AI models and intelligence automation.

Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction? - This research examines how AI can enhance usability testing by intelligently automating follow-up questions, capturing richer participant data without requiring researchers to personally conduct every session.

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App Review: Align - The Time Blocking App

The app claims to offer a more efficient way to organize and manage your day with a visual timeline that simplifies scheduling through customizable time blocks. Align syncs automatically across multiple devices, preventing overlapping tasks and ensuring an updated overview wherever you go. With full control to adjust and recur tasks, the app helps you stay focused, organized, and productive.

When testing the app, I noticed that it only connects to the Apple Calendar. In fact, the app cannot be used unless a working connection to the calendar is provided.

Apart from that, the app seems to be as advertised. I an going to try this app for a while longer to see if my productivity increases. 🤞🤞🤞

oceanbase - An enterprise distributed relational database with high availability, high performance, horizontal scalability, and compatibility with SQL standards.

LocalAI - The free, Open Source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others. Self-hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more models architectures. Features: Generate Text, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P inference.

ai-shell - A CLI that converts natural language to shell commands.

tabby - a self-hosted AI coding assistant, offering an open-source and on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot.

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