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But how long until they take the human out of it as well? News 

AI-Powered Natural Language Programming Streamlines Coding Process

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Whenever media layoffs are announced, internet trolls and tech bros often use the phrase “Learn to code” as a pejorative. However, with the emergence of code generating AIs, knowing a programming language like Python may soon become as useful as knowing a dead language like Sanskrit. These genAIs are already assisting professional software developers in coding more efficiently by taking on much of the programming grunt work. Therefore, the sentiment of “Learn to code” is not only useless but also becoming outdated. How coding works Two of the most widely…

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The company said it uploaded the code in two repositories on code-sharing platform Github News 

Twitter is making some of its source code public on Github, enabling a peak of its functionality

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Twitter on Friday released parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, giving users and programmers access to how it works and can suggest changes to the algorithm. The company said it had uploaded the code to two archives on the code sharing platform Github. They contain the source code for many parts of Twitter, including the recommendation algorithm that controls the tweets users see on their timelines. The data stores do not contain the code that drives Twitter’s ad recommendations, it said. The…

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Microsoftowned GitHub has laid off 142 people in India, including the entire staff in its engineering division, people aware of the development said on Tuesday. News 

GitHub is laying off 142 employees in India and the entire engineering team

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New Delhi, March 28: Microsoft-owned GitHub has laid off 142 people in India, including the entire staff of its engineering division, people familiar with the development said on Tuesday. The targeted individuals were posted to the company’s offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi. When contacted, a GitHub spokesperson said the decision was part of the company’s restructuring plan. “As part of the restructuring plan shared in February, the staff reductions were made on Tuesday as part of difficult but necessary decisions and restructuring, both to protect the health of our…

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GitHub is also launching Copilot for docs, an experimental tool that uses a chat interface to provide users with AI-generated responses to questions about documentation. News 

GitHub launches AI-powered Copilot X, adopts OpenAI’s GPT-4 model

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Microsoft-owned open source developer platform GitHub has announced Copilot X, the company’s vision for the future of AI-based software development. GitHub has adopted OpenAI’s new GPT-4 model and introduced chat and voice to Copilot, bringing Copilot to fetch requests, command line, and documentation to answer developers’ questions about their projects. “From reading documents to writing code to submitting pull requests and beyond, we strive to personalize GitHub Copilot for every team, project, and repository where it’s used, creating a radically improved software development lifecycle,” Thomas Dohmke, GitHub’s CEO, said in…

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