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Thomas Dohmke is the CEO of Github. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the state of AI-assisted coding, and whether the rest of the economy can see benefits similar to software engineers using coding 'copilots.' We also discuss how AI assistance can help individual developers build whatever's on their mind, and whether we'll see $1 billion dollar startups built by just one person. Tune in the for the second half where we discuss the next set of AI models, how engineering jobs change when AI produces most of the code, and whether AI will eventually improve itself.

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Rick Caccia was born and raised in Silicon Valley - and just stayed. He is married with 2 teenage daughters, one about to go to college. Between him and his wife, they have worked in 13 different startups - so you could say they have a startup family through and through. Outside of tech, he is a cyclist in a bike club, and enjoys spending time with his family.

After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem.

This is the creation story of WitnessAI.

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Marimo: “Future of Notebooks”
• pytest 8.3.0 & 8.3.1 are out
• Python Language Summit 2024
• bash-dungeon
• Extras
• Joke

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Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’”

Learn more about technical bankruptcy in this blog post, “Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off.”

Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I.

Technical debt as explained by Ward Cunningham, who coined the term.

Code as an asset, a conversation from Hacker News.

Middleware is the “software glue” that provides services to applications beyond those available from the operating system. 

Ratpack framework is a toolkit for creating high performance web applications.

React is a front end javascript library.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML.

Questions about functional programming.

User shout out! Nikoksr received the lifeboat badge after answering a question related to math.pow.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) VCs and Elon going to Trump 2) The policy issues swinging VCs to Trump 3) The case for an against big tech acquisitions 4) Electric vehicle policy as a flashpoint 5) Anti-woke common ground between VCs and Trump 6) Is it a good bet? 7) Goldman Sachs pours some cold water on the GenAI hype and spending 8) Anthropic starts a new venture fund 9) Warner Bros. Discovery potential spinoff plan 10) Using AI to talk to animals. 11) Is a squirrel the next Einstein?

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Brian Chidester, Head of Industry Strategy for Public Sector at Adobe and Host of The Government Huddle Podcast invites Phillip Naithram, Host of The Jumping Point Podcast to interview him in honor of the show’s 150th episode. Together they cover a lot of topics including Brian’s personal and professional journey. They also talk about how his athletic background shaped his mindset and drive, his transition from professional sports into his career,  and the importance of empathy, gratitude, and positive habits in personal growth.

You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix, X, LinkedIn, Github, or Mastodon. 

Got questions about Java? Check out the site.

Apache Groovy is a Java programming language. 

Virtual Threads reduce the effort put into writing and maintaining code as well as observing high-throughput concurrent applications.

Apache Shiro is an open-source security framework that can do authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. 

Jakarta EE, or Jakarta Enterprise Edition, is a suite of services that helps developers write enterprise applications for the Java platform. 

Links from the show:

• What’s new in MySQL 9.0 | InfoWorld
• Laravel Pennant - Laravel 11.x - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
• https://laravel-news.com/api-versioning-in-laravel-11
• Machine Learning Service - Free Amazon SageMaker - AWS
• https://doganoo.medium.com/property-hooks-rfc-for-php-8-4-7bc26f9be989

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