As AI increasingly permeates the software development landscape, new research from OpenAI offers sobering insights into the current limitations of even the most advanced AI coding assistants. The benchmark study, “SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?” presents evidence that despite rapid advances, today’s frontier AI models still fall short […]
AI Coding: New Research Shows Even the Best Models Struggle With Real-World Software Engineering
New OpenAI research reveals that frontier AI models like Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o solve fewer than half of real-world software engineering tasks from a $1M benchmark.
Global Survey Finds Testing as the Most Valuable AI Investment Across the Software Development Lifecycle
Tricentis report reveals AI-augmented DevOps tools will save teams over an estimated 40 hours per month—equivalent to an entire workweek AUSTIN, TEXAS – August 6th, 2024 – Tricentis, a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering, today released the findings of its most recent AI report, “AI-augmented DevOps: Trends Shaping the Future.” This year’s research aims to understand […]
Does More Money Improve Open Source Security?
It sounds simple: If you pay developers more money they’ll improve the quality and security of their code. The evidence isn’t so clear.
Things To Do During Slow Times
Don MacVittie offers suggestions on what to tackle during this slow, holiday-filled time of year when many folks may not be available.
AppDynamics Survey Reveals High IT Stress
A global survey published today by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, suggests the last year took a substantial toll on IT teams at a time when many organizations either launched or accelerated digital business transformation initiatives. The survey, of 1,050 IT professionals in organizations with revenue of more than $500 million, finds organizations, on average, […]
CloudBees Advances Expanding DevOps Agenda
CloudBees today at its online DevOps World 2020 conference announced it is embedding additional DevSecOps capabilities that span the application development and deployment process within the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform based on the open source Jenkins projects. In addition, CloudBees announced it will make generally available by the end of this year two additional […]
DevSecOps Requires Teamwork for Success
While the manifestos surrounding the current development pipelines may differ, there is one concept that remains constant: teamwork. All the various frameworks populating the development landscape bring together teams of people to build and deliver applications. This is especially true of DevOps, which focuses on a technical culture with defined roles on a quest for […]
Culture, Not Changing Much in DevOps
One of the things that has bemused me from day one of the DevOps movement is how culture is viewed with an odd dichotomy. It is simultaneously DevOps’ greatest strength and its greatest weakness. Of course, there is a simple and reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. DevOps wants to change culture. Cultures that are resistant […]
How Service Mesh Addresses 3 Key Microservices Challenges
I was recently reading the “Global Microservices Trends” report by Dimensional Research and found myself thinking, “A service mesh could help with that.” Let’s look at three key challenges listed in the report. A couple key points in the report make it clear microservices are seeing widespread adoption. It’s also clear that along with the […]