Tag: Software Development

Five things to consider before you deploy an LLM

Enthusiasm for large language models has outstripped capabilities. Before you leap into production, answer these…

Four paradoxes of software development

Software development is full of paradoxes that are challenging to deal with. Our job is to…

Language models in generative AI – does size matter?

Large language models and small language models will play different roles in ensuring that we…

Rust language adds trait upcasting

Long-wanted ability to upcast trait objects to trait objects of supertraits arrives in Rust 1.86,…

Java plan prepares to restrict final field mutation

Proposal would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final flelds, preparing for…

Understand Python’s new lock file format

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for…

Red Hat Developer Hub adds analysis dashboard

Red Hat also introduced a lightweight, self-contained version of Developer Hub that can be run…

Rewriting Social Security will be a train wreck

The software industry has known for decades that rewriting a system from scratch is never…

Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it

Optimizing Python isn’t simple, because of the language’s dynamism. Here’s why optimization is still the…

5 ways data scientists can prepare now for genAI transformation

GenAI is undoubtedly changing how data scientists and analysts work, including tools, processes, and deliverables.…