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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Because someone made the economic decision that the cost of building that software was too high. Supply-demand of software engineers.

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Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

As the great resignation continues, many companies are turning to AI-driven HR software to increase retention rates and reduce costs. Looking beyond the conventional HR practices and managing every part of the software engineer lifecycle is a key to increasing talent acquisition margin.

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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

For one, they wanted to offer personalized training to help people not just learn to code, but to become “exceptional” software engineers. But the problem is that only about 55% of bootcamp grads are getting a job as a software engineer, and of the ones that do, their median salary is only about $65,000.

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Dragos raises $110M Series C as demand to secure industrial systems soars

TechCrunch

Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. About one-third of the company’s employees work in software engineering to build its threat platform.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.

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Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career

TechCrunch

What’s currently broken about training for software engineers? With everything that’s happening in the industry these days, I’m more confident than ever in our choice of investors. OF: The best way developers have to improve their skills today is on the job, but that is both slow and inefficient.

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Generate financial industry-specific insights using generative AI and in-context fine-tuning

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this blog post, we demonstrate prompt engineering techniques to generate accurate and relevant analysis of tabular data using industry-specific language. A user can ask a business- or industry-related question for ETFs. The results are similar to fine-tuning LLMs without the complexities of fine-tuning models.