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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Web Services said in a post earlier this month that developers report spending an average of “just one hour per day” on actual coding. But that doesn’t mean these workers twiddle their thumbs the remaining se… Continue reading Amazon Says Developers Spend ‘Just One Hour Per Day’ on Actual Coding
An anonymous reader shares a report: Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a “new era of slop security reports for open source” — and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results p… Continue reading Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI
“Generative AI is transforming software development by enabling natural language prompts to generate code, reducing the need for traditional programming skills,” argues Analytics India magazine.
Traditionally, coding was the bastion of the select few… Continue reading Thanks to AI, the Hottest New Programming Language is… English
“The Rust Foundation is dedicated to ensuring a healthy Rust ecosystem,” according to a new announcement today, ” which depends on a growing pool of well-trained developers to thrive.”
The latest SlashData Developer Nation survey found Rust to be the … Continue reading The Rust Foundation’s Plan to Grow the Pool of Well-Trained Rust Developers
Meta is using OpenAI’s GPT-4 alongside its own Llama AI model in Metamate, an internal coding assistance tool, Fortune reported Tuesday. The dual-model approach has been in place since early 2024, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s public promotion of Llama… Continue reading Meta Using OpenAI’s GPT-4 in Internal Coding Tool Despite Llama Push
Greg Kroah-Hartman noted some coming changes in Linux 6.13 will make it possible to create “way more” Rust-based kernel drivers. “The veteran kernel developer believes we’re at a tipping point of seeing more upstream Rust drivers ahead,” reports Phoron… Continue reading Greg Kroah-Hartman Sees ‘Tipping Point’ for Rust Drivers in Linux Kernel
Long-time Slashdot reader jaromil writes:
As a fun project, we hacked together a C interpreter (based on Tiny C Compiler) that compiles C code in-memory and runs it live.
CJIT today is a 2MB executable that can do a lot, including call functions from… Continue reading CJIT – C, Just In Time!
A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies has found that approximately 9.5% of engineers perform minimal work while drawing full salaries, potentially costing tech companies billions annually.
The research showed… Continue reading Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers ‘Do Virtually Nothing’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TheGamer: With thousands of cards available in Pokemon’s “Pokemon Trading Card Game,” it can be hard to remember what is what. After all, since first debuting in the mid 1990s to coincide with the games of the s… Continue reading Pokemon Fan Learns To Code In Order To Archive TCG
The Rust community has “recognized the unsafety of Rust (if used incorrectly),” according to a blog post by Amazon Web Services.
So now AWS and the Rust Foundation are “crowdsourcing an effort to verify the Rust standard library,” according to an arti… Continue reading Verify the Rust’s Standard Library’s 7,500 Unsafe Functions – and Win ‘Financial Rewards’