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Software Engineering Daily

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesDemis Hassabis and the Race to Build AI with Sebastian Mallaby Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010, before machines could reliably tell a cat from a dog. He believed that artificial general intelligence was achievable, and that it should be built safely and…

11.03

Software Engineering DailyVoicesAI Regulation and What Every Tech Company Should Know The rapid rise of AI has set off a flurry of legal and regulatory activity. There is no single AI law to follow.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesManaging AI Coding Costs at Scale Over the past couple of years, companies raced to get their employees using AI, often encouraging them to lean on it as much as possible.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesBlitzy and Autonomous Software Development for Enterprise Codebases in enterprise organizations often span hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of lines of code.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesPhysical AI at NVIDIA In recent years, the main impact of AI has been on the digital world, and most notably software engineering.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesSoftware Verification in the Age of Coding Agents Software testing is widely understood as essential to building reliable systems, and it’s one of the hardest things to get right.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesSED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader…

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesSteve Jobs in Exile The popular story of Steve Jobs is that he co-founded Apple, was pushed out, wandered through a failed venture called NeXT, then returned to save the company and usher in the iPod and iPhone.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesSecurity in the Age of Instant Exploits In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment attackers could exploit it.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesThe State of Browser Testing Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Firefox, and Safari the same way, a triumph of software…

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesCory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesChroma and Agentic Retrieval Data retrieval is a fundamental challenge in AI systems, and the approaches for solving it are still evolving.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesScaling Agent Workloads at Vercel Most AI agent setups today are built around a single session, where one user interacts with one agent at a time.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesInside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending that contract in a new direction.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesA Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesSED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader…

09.08

Software Engineering DailyVoicesMoving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context Retrieval has become one of the central problems in building useful AI systems. The standard approach to grounding a model in one’s own data has been retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, where an…

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesThe Death of Online Anonymity Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age estimation, or behavioral inference before you can enter…

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesTypeScript 7 and What Comes Next TypeScript is a programming language that builds on JavaScript by adding a system of types. Those types let developers describe the shape of their data and catch mistakes before code ever runs, while…

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesThe Gap Between AI Spending and AI Value It is widely reported that a gap has emerged between enterprise spending on AI and the durable value captured from that spend.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesAI and the New Global Security Landscape The conversation about AI often focuses on software, automation, and the race between attackers and defenders in code.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesHow LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently.

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Software Engineering DailyVoicesRebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with little human review.

08.13

Software Engineering DailyVoicesSED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader…

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