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Product Design vs Platform Design for Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

A product is software that has off-the-shelf, more generic features and functions. In contrast, a platform is a software or service that allows external parties to extend and develop complementary functions and services. While anyone can build products on top of a platform, the platform itself is not the product.

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Understanding the Dynamics of Custom Software Development

The Crazy Programmer

Many organizations find themselves looking for software solutions that simply do not exist on the market today. After endless searching, they finally decide to seek out a software development company, like BairesDev , to turn their ideas into a reality. Why Choose Custom Software Development?

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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. Much like the classic No Silver Bullet paper on software productivity, none of these things in themselves were a dramatic improvement.

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‘Just-in-time’ AI: Has its moment arrived?

CIO

They just need their software development team to incorporate that [gen AI] component into an application, so talent is no longer a limiting factor,” the analyst claims. The timeliness is critical. You don’t want to do the work too much in advance because you want that real-time context. Google has come up with a RAG service.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE.

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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups

Crunchbase News

Roughly 75% of that value will emanate from productivity gains across customer operations, sales and marketing, software engineering, and R&D. LLM customization Is the startup using a mostly off-the-shelf LLM — e.g., OpenAI ’s ChatGPT — or a meaningfully customized LLM? trillion to $4.4 trillion annually.

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

CIO

Many organizations have launched dozens of AI proof-of-concept projects only to see a huge percentage fail, in part because CIOs don’t know whether the POCs are meeting key metrics, according to research firm IDC. The potential cost can be huge, with some POCs costing millions of dollars, Saroff says.

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