Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain
Since the release of Claude Code, software developers have been living in the future.
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster
Devs estimated time saved with AI before & after each task, while screen recording to measured real-world AI productivity gains. @shimminykricket : A randomized controlled study found that Gen AI actu...
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think.
Q&A with Mike Clark, the chief architect of AMD's Zen microarchitecture, on x86, ARM, CPUs vs GPUs, Zen 4 to Zen 5, software developers, and more
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Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content”, after Elon Musk said on February 3 that its users had “broken the law”
It'll take far longer than Twitter to topple, but it's *not* going to withstand its mismanagement. [embedded post] Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer.net : Reddit admins are now taking direction from Elo...
The CFPB will supervise tech companies with digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Venmo, with 50M+ annual transactions, treating them more like banks
the Biden/Warren crew just enacted this to stop @X from becoming a payments juggernaut. Wow, a whole new 259-page rule aimed at X...yet more lawfare against you.👊 (Congress can & probably will CRA thi...
The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise
The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times's digital operation.
Replit launches Replit Agent, an AI agent that can build entire apps from scratch based on prompts, available in beta to Replit Core and Teams subscribers
available today for subscribers: [video] @sullyomarr : after using replit's coding agent i think...its over for a lot of traditional saas wanted slack notifications when customers subscribed/cancelled...
A dozen technologists and researchers at Chinese tech companies say open-source technologies were a key reason behind China narrowing the AI gap with the US
In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI will be available by the end of June
OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models' performance on programming-related tasks.