General News, Articles, and Analyses
How I test an AI chatbot’s coding ability – and you can, too | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-i-test-an-ai-chatbots-coding-ability-and-you-can-too/
Author: David Gewirtz
(Friday, August 23, 2024) “This article provides detailed prompts and tests you can repeat on your favorite AI chatbot to see if it can help you program reliably.”
Yi-Coder: The open-source AI that wants to be your coding buddy | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/ai/yi-coder-the-open-source-ai-that-wants-to-be-your-coding-buddy/
Author: Michael Nuñez
(Thursday, September 5, 2024) “Chinese AI firm 01.AI has unveiled Yi-Coder, an open-source AI coding assistant with state-of-the-art performance, supporting 52 programming languages and potentially reshaping software development.”
French startup Poolside nears $3B valuation for AI that can write code
https://thenextweb.com/news/french-startup-poolside-3-billion-valuation-ai-software-development-code
Author: Siôn Geschwindt
(Friday, September 13, 2024) “Paris-based AI startup Poolside is in discussions to raise nearly $500mn at a $3bn valuation, Bloomberg reports. Poolside is developing a ChatGPT-like large language model (LLM) that writes software code — but the business plan remains hush-hush. The company has yet to launch its first product.”
Supermaven nabs $12M for its AI coding assistant | SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/16/supermaven-nabs-12m-ai-coding-assistant/
Author: Maria Deutscher
(Monday, September 16, 2024) “Supermaven distributes its AI assistant in the form of an extension for popular code editors, the applications that developers use to write software. The assistant can analyze the snippet of code that an engineer is writing and generate autocomplete suggestions. Moreover, it’s capable of generating new snippets from scratch based on natural language instructions from the user.”
Accelerate quantum software development on Amazon Braket with Claude-3 | AWS Quantum Technologies Blog
Authors: Yaroslav Kharkov; Matthew Beach; Eric Kessler; and Zia Mohammad
(Wednesday, September 18, 2024) “In this blog post, we show you how to build a customized code assistant for AmazonBraket to accelerate quantum programming with generative AI. The Braket code assistant provides you with a chat interface integrated into the JupyterLab Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) on Amazon Braket notebook instances, and is powered by your choice of large language models (LLMs) through Amazon Bedrock.”
RustConf speakers affirm Rust for Linux project despite challenges of unstable Rust, maintainer resignation | DEVCLASS
Author: Tim Anderson
(Wednesday, September 18, 2024) “At RustConf in Montreal last week, Miguel Ojeda, a lead maintainer for the Rust for Linux project, described the resignation of fellow maintainer Wedson Almeida Filho as a “darkest before the dawn” moment for the project, which aims to make Rust a second main programming language for the Linux kernel alongside C.”
Can Java rival Python in AI development? | InfoWorld
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3523744/can-java-rival-python-in-ai-development.html
Author: Paul Krill
(Wednesday, September 18, 2024) “Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI field.”
