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Podcast interview: Rust and C++

Sutter's Mill

In early September I had a very enjoyable technical chat with Steve Klabnik of Rust fame and interviewer Kevin Ball of Software Engineering Daily, and the podcast is now available. Rust, while newer, is gaining traction in roles that demand safety and concurrency, particularly in systems programming.

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Preparing for AI

O'Reilly

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. When tools like GitHub Copilot first appeared, it was received wisdom that AI would make programming easier.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. Assembly language programming then put an end to that. Betty Jean Jennings and Frances Bilas (right) program the ENIAC in 1946.

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Finite State Machines: How to Enhance Software Testing

DZone

Finite state machines (FSMs) offer a solution by modeling system behavior as states and transitions, a useful tool that can help software engineers understand software behavior and design effective test cases. This article explores the pros and cons of FSMs via simple examples.

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Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

The Morning Paper

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

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Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution

The Morning Paper

Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution , Lehman, Proc. As computers play an ever larger role in society and the life of the individual, it becomes more and more critical to be able to create and maintain effective, cost-effective, and timely software. On programming, projects, and products. IEEE, 1980.

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude. What do I measure?