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From advancing ethical AI practices to expanding open source learning for developers in Africa, discover how we’ve fostered diversity, inclusion, and belonging this year. The post Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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How to improve the developer experience in today’s ecommerce world
We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises.
Enterprise 2024.7: Empower your subject matter experts to contribute
This release introduces Subject Matter Expert (SME) Auto-Assign to the Stack Overflow for Teams experience so expert knowledge is automatically captured, verified, and distributed to users.
CEO Update: Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ecosystem
The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web.
The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write
Ben welcomes Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat for a conversation about AI coding tools’ potential to boost developer productivity—and how to balance those potential gains against code quality and security concerns. They talk about Sonar’s origins as an open-source code quality tool, the excellent reasons to embrace a “clean as you code” philosophy, and how to determine where AI coding tools can be helpful and where they can’t...
Chris’ Corner: If This Then Splat
I love the little typographic thing where if you’re reading a block of text that is in italics, that when an italic word is needed within that, it is unitalicized (like that). I’ve seen that expressed in CSS like: That’s probably smart to have, but not all italics are necessarily within an tag. You […]
Securing the open source supply chain: The essential role of CVEs
Vulnerability data has grown in volume and complexity over the past decade, but open source and programs like the Github Security Lab have helped supply chain security keep pace. The post Securing the open source supply chain: The essential role of CVEs appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
How API security is evolving for the GenAI era
Ben Popper chats with Keith Babo, Head of Product at Solo.io, about how the API security landscape is changing in the era of GenAI. They talk through the role of governance in AI, the importance of data protection, and the role API gateways play in enhancing security and functionality. Keith shares his insights on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, protecting PII, and the necessity of human-in-the-loop AI...
GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time
Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts. The post GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Brain Drain: David vs Goliath
There are worries that GenAI systems may run out of fresh data as they scale. Synthetic data is an option, but using AI-generated data to train AI can degrade the model's performance. There may be a better solution. Can data quality overcome a loss of data quantity?
The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers
On today’s sponsored episode, we chat with Ryan Ellis and Martin Best about the developer-centric features built into Unity 6, the latest release of the well-known game engine. The pair explains how Unity 6 was built to help developers enhance graphics, add multiplayer, and easily port games to an audience on the mobile web.
Chris’ Corner: There is a Turtle at the Bottom
If you were in charge of the curriculum at a college teaching web development, would you ensure the curriculum was regularly updated with bleeding edge technology? Or would you establish a slower moving curriculum with tried and true technologies? That’s tough. You can’t just flip a coin. It may be impractical to re-invent the curriculum […]
What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability
Austin Spiegel, CTO and co-founder of Sift, tells Ben and Ryan about his journey from studying film to working at SpaceX to founding Sift.
Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations
Ben Popper interviews Vladislav Voroninski, CEO of Helm.ai, about unsupervised learning and the future of AI in autonomous driving. They discuss GenAI’s role in bridging the gap between simulation and reality, the challenges of scaling autonomous driving systems, the commercial potential of partial autonomy, and why software is emerging as a key differentiator in vehicle sales. Vlad spotlights the value of multimodal...
Rust is evolving from system-level language to UI and frontend development
Ben and Ryan chat with Daniela Miao, cofounder and CTO of Momento, a real-time data platform, about real-time observability, the challenges of multi-tenancy in databases and caching, the use of WebAssembly in UI development, and the benefits of Rust.
Chris Corner: View Transition Performance
I was mystified the other day about why some navigational View Transitions weren’t working for me. It was just a demo thing, so it wasn’t a big deal, not to mention this API is Chrome-only and just a progressive enhancement anyway. But I did learn why! The way I understand it now is that navigation […]
Meet the AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering
Crystal Xu, chief of staff at FSH Tech, explains how she works with GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Replit to build software through prompt engineering.
Community Products Roadmap Update, October 2024
We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle
On today’s episode we chat with David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet and co-founder of Console.dev. We discuss his early work in cloud monitoring, his passion for the environment, and his love for sharing great developer tools.
Chris’ Corner: Web Combinements
A little bit ago David Darnes made a web component that you’d chuck HTML, CSS, and JS inside of and it would show the code and give you an “Open in CodePen” button. That’s enabled by our Prefill API. Miriam Suzanne has played with web components making an that is like a replacement […]
Ongoing community data protection
Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.
Attribution as the foundation of developer trust
The entire AI ecosystem is at risk without trust.
Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models
The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows.
The changing state of the Internet and related business models
If you’re weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.
Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with Anthropic
We chat with Deedy Das, a Principal at Menlo Ventures, who began his career as a software engineer at Facebook and Google. He then dipped a toe in the startup world, spending time at the company now know as Glean. More recently he started a career as a venture capitalist, investing in AI and Infra out of the Anthology Fund, a partnership between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic.
Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.
Chris’ Corner: It DOM Matter
“Regardless of where it is in the DOM.” That’s a phrase that goes through my mind in regard to a number of new CSS features and it’s so cool. I certainly spent most of my formative HTML & CSSin’ years being very careful about where things needed to go in the DOM specifically because CSS […]
He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience.
Founder and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal tells Ben, Cassidy, and Eira about the developer challenges he aims to solve with his new venture, Harness, an AI-driven software development platform meant to take the pain out of DevOps. Jyoti shares his journey as a founder, his perspective on the venture capital landscape, and his reasons behind his decision to raise debt capital for Harness.
Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
Detecting errors in AI-generated code
Ben chats with Gias Uddin, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto, where he teaches software engineering, data science, and machine learning. His research focuses on designing intelligent tools for testing, debugging, and summarizing software and AI systems. He recently published a paper about detecting errors in code generated by LLMs. Gias and Ben discuss the concept of hallucinations in AI-generated...
Elevating your search experience: Stack Overflow for Teams ML-powered reranking experiment
Today, we're excited to share details about our latest experiment that aims to make your search results in Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise even more relevant and useful.
Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI
Ryan chats with Russ d’Sa, cofounder and CEO of LiveKit, about multimodal AI and the technology that makes it possible. They talk through the tech stack required, including the use of WebRTC and UDP protocols for real-time audio and video streaming. They also explore the big challenges involved in ensuring privacy and security in streaming data, namely end-to-end encryption and obfuscation.
What's in an (Alias) Name?
A description of generic alias types, a planned feature for Go 1.24
The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs
Ben and Ryan talk to Scott McCarty, Global Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about the intersection between LLMs (large language models) and open source. They discuss the challenges and benefits of open-source LLMs, the importance of attribution and transparency, and the revolutionary potential for LLM-driven applications. They also explore the role of LLMs in code generation, testing, and...
Building LLM-powered applications in Go
LLM-powered applications in Go using Gemini, langchaingo and Genkit