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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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Doing Diligence Well In Venture Investing: Going Back To The Future

Crunchbase News

By Nicolas Sauvage Due diligence has made a comeback. On an average deal, VCs would spend 118 hours on due diligence and call 10 references. The assumption was often that someone else had already done the diligence. With that, high-quality diligence has returned, and it is both art and a science.

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6 ways to prepare for a difficult conversation with a direct report

CIO

IT leaders face many challenging tasks, but few are more daunting than engaging with a direct report who has, in one way or another, become unreliable or neglectful. There are various reasons why a manager or executive may need to have a frank conversation with a direct report, says Orla Daly, CIO at training services provider Skillsoft.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Disallow anything outside the scope of the original task, such as code cleanup or other drive-by improvements. Use lots of dotted lines in the reporting structure.

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3 recruiting metrics that can help startups make more data-driven hiring decisions

TechCrunch

According to Harvard Business Review , the price of a bad hire is 30–50% of their salary, which can hit startup budgets hard in 2023. A good start is to track these three metrics: Startup founders have to focus on the key resource for their early-stage startup to survive and grow — the people. Second, tally up all expenses.

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The importance of Code Reviews

Apiumhub

Code reviews were introduced with the intention of improving code quality, developers review each other’s code during a code review to ensure software quality, usually prior to merging the code. The code review process should not be limited to receiving only one-sided feedback.