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When I hear someone say my name in a meeting ⌘ Read more
When my automated deployment process is on point ⌘ Read more
When I woke up early on purpose for a meeting and it gets canceled at the last minute ⌘ Read more
When my project keeps crashing at the same spot for 3 hours ⌘ Read more
When I know I’ll regret coding something dirty but I push it anyway in a rush ⌘ Read more
When the newcomer tells us he’s happy to work on a legacy project ⌘ Read more
When I take over the maintenance of an app that hasn’t been updated for 15 years ⌘ Read more
When the QA Manager walks through the open space after I’ve sent my code for review ⌘ Read more
When I’m having my coffee and the boss and the salesperson get into an argument in front of me ⌘ Read more
When I’m the only developer in a management meeting ⌘ Read more
When I realize my Google search starts with ‘select *’** ⌘ Read more*
When I test a piece of code found online ⌘ Read more
When I ask for help from the only full-stack developer on the team ⌘ Read more
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence already has its API
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence, Grok, now has its own API. Just introduced last week, the smart chatbot intended to compete with ChatGPT is now equipped with an interface for communicating with third-party applications. The news was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by one of the lead heads of the xAI lab, the entity dedicated to […] ⌘ Read more
Dutch Amazon employees work in a former prison
Orange is the New Black — In the Netherlands, Amazon Web Services (AWS) employees have the luxury of working in… a former prison! After the establishment of remote work during the Covid pandemic, who would have thought that on-site work could still be so appealing? In a video that went viral on TikTok, a solutions […] ⌘ Read more
When the lead dev rejects my pull request ⌘ Read more
When the client asks for yet another new feature as the deadline approaches ⌘ Read more
When I’m going to spend my day writing tests ⌘ Read more
When we go to ask a too-busy senior dev for help ⌘ Read more
When the boss tells me we’ve won a new project with a technology I love ⌘ Read more
Me when a colleague is giving their speech during their farewell party ⌘ Read more
When we finish setting everything up just 5 minutes before the presentation ⌘ Read more
When a colleague comes directly to me to avoid waiting for me to handle their ticket ⌘ Read more
When I’m stuck in a never-ending meeting and my teammate walks by the ajar door ⌘ Read more
When I learn that I have to work on a major feature requested by the CEO ⌘ Read more
When I’m asked to work on a server I know nothing about ⌘ Read more
When I ask for time off from the boss while we’re in the middle of a rush ⌘ Read more
When the product owner revises all our story points downwards ⌘ Read more
When I don’t wait for the tests to finish before deploying ⌘ Read more
When I’m a back-end dev and I’m asked to do some front-end work ⌘ Read more
When I’m new and I find out that my trainer for the past two days is leaving tomorrow ⌘ Read more
DevDay: all the announcements from OpenAI’s first developer conference
OpenAI held its DevDay event this Monday, November 6th, marking its first-ever developers’ conference, which was full of announcements. The company behind ChatGPT is launching new artificial intelligence models and APIs. Here’s a summary of the different announcements made during the event. Staggering figures for ChatGPT In less than a year, ChatGPT has become a […] ⌘ Read more
When I fixed a bug but didn’t manage the side effects ⌘ Read more
Elon Musk launches Grok, his AI meant to rival ChatGPT
Elon Musk has just launched Grok, a new intelligent chatbot meant to compete with ChatGPT. After ravaging acquiring Twitter (now X) last year, the eccentric billionaire unveiled last weekend his brand new technological toy: his own AI-powered chatbot. An AI with a particular sense of humor Developed by his AI specialist company xAI, Grok is […] ⌘ Read more
When the salesperson tries to join our developer conversations ⌘ Read more
When I manage to decode a binary message in my head ⌘ Read more
When I open my email inbox after coming back from vacation ⌘ Read more
When the boss talks about a small production change to be made on Friday evening ⌘ Read more
When a new bug occurs right after my fix ⌘ Read more
When I’m debugging step by step and I encounter a loop ⌘ Read more
When the intern tells me he fixed my bug ⌘ Read more
When I hear the boss commit to a deadline without consulting me ⌘ Read more
When we release, but we haven’t done any integration tests ⌘ Read more
When I’ve finished handling all the tickets assigned to me ⌘ Read more
Someone created an Angry Birds video game clone using only AI
For Halloween, a developer has created the game “Angry Pumpkins”, reminiscent of the famous game Angry Birds (ah, nostalgia). The twist? This game was exclusively crafted using the artificial intelligences of Midjourney, DALL-E 3, and GPT-4! As explained by the author, Javi Lopez, in his tweets, the game’s “development” underwent two phases: creating graphical elements […] ⌘ Read more
For Halloween, I asked ChatGPT to tell me the most terrifying story possible for a developer
Trick or Treat — Just like many of you, I’m fascinated by artificial intelligence as it stands today, but it also makes me a bit scared. So, what better way, on this Halloween day, to ask our good old ChatGPT to tell us a story as terrifying as possible for developers? I’m transcribing here what […] ⌘ Read more
When a colleague asks me if I can help with a regex ⌘ Read more
When I’m about to fix a bug and everyone is talking around me ⌘ Read more
With its surprise event “Scary Fast”, Apple unveils its M3 chips, new MacBook Pro, and iMac
Apple held its surprise “Scary Fast” event last night: in just 30 minutes, the company unveiled its new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips, as well as new MacBook Pros and a 24-inch iMac. Never in its history had Apple hosted an evening event in the US. But with Halloween around the corner, the […] ⌘ Read more
When the sysadmin starts giving me a lecture about his job ⌘ Read more
Boston Dynamics’ robot dog now speaks thanks to ChatGPT
All is well (not.) — Spot, the not-at-all terrifying robot dog from Boston Dynamics, can now make decisions and express itself thanks to ChatGPT. In a post published on its blog, the American robotics company expressed its interest in the advancements of artificial intelligence models that power chatbots like ChatGPT. Nice doggy Boston Dynamics has […] ⌘ Read more
When I have to get back into code I haven’t touched in 2 years ⌘ Read more
When the developer of a project I’m not familiar with is on vacation, and I’m asked to fix a bug in their app ⌘ Read more
When I finally understand where the problem in my code is coming from ⌘ Read more
When the sysadmin starts giving me a lecture about his job ⌘ Read more
Following too many incidents, California calls an end to autonomous cars on its roads
On Tuesday, California ordered General Motors subsidiary Cruise to withdraw its autonomous and driverless cars from the state’s roads. The decision points to a risk to public safety, accusing the company of lacking transparency regarding the safety of its technology. The deployment of Cruise’s autonomous vehicles and their testing permit have been suspended by the […] ⌘ Read more
When different project managers try to catch me before I leave for the weekend ⌘ Read more
When I provide a solution to a bug for the senior developer ⌘ Read more
When someone from marketing comes to me with a printer problem ⌘ Read more
Me to HR after a long-awaited raise ⌘ Read more
When someone reopens a ticket for a bug I thought I had finally fixed ⌘ Read more
Over a million developers now pay for GitHub Copilot
Microsoft is observing an exponential growth in the number of users for the paid version of its coding assistant, GitHub Copilot. Over one million users have subscribed to the service, and more than 37,000 organizations are using it worldwide. This massive adoption is evidence, if any were needed, of this technology’s effectiveness for developers. Since […] ⌘ Read more
When I ask a Cobol dev if it’s not too hard to work on such an old tech ⌘ Read more
When I see that the contractor with 5 years of experience codes worse than the intern ⌘ Read more
When the newbie explains to me how to use our in-house framework and I’m the main contributor ⌘ Read more
When it’s 3 a.m. and my code still doesn’t work ⌘ Read more
When I discover that our application server’s IP has been blacklisted for 2 months ⌘ Read more
When the front-end dev tries to help us fix a server-side crash ⌘ Read more
Researchers create 3D-GPT, an AI that crafts virtual worlds using ChatGPT-like prompts
Researchers have designed an artificial intelligence model capable of generating 3D worlds from simple textual commands, akin to ChatGPT. Teams from the Australian National University, the University of Oxford, and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence have created 3D-GPT, a system that models 3D visuals based on textual descriptions provided by the user. Outline ... ⌘ Read more
When I’m on sick leave and thinking about my colleagues in a rush ⌘ Read more
When I deploy having forgotten to test a few things ⌘ Read more
When a colleague shows us how he uses his Dvorak keyboard ⌘ Read more
Martin Goetz, holder of the first software patent, dies at 93
Martin Goetz, regarded as the pioneer of third-party software, passed away at the age of 93. He is best known for obtaining the first software patent in the United States in 1968, a move that paved the way for the transformation of the software industry as we know it today. Having entered the computer industry […] ⌘ Read more
When I redo the design of an application that’s 10 years old, and the backend remains unchanged ⌘ Read more
When the salesperson oversold my experience to the client, and I have to make a good impression upon arrival ⌘ Read more
When I follow the API documentation, but nothing works as expected ⌘ Read more
Microsoft and Amazon join forces to dismantle a vast Indian scammer network
Microsoft and Amazon have joined forces to assist Indian authorities in dismantling a scammer network specialized in tech support fraud. Based on information provided by the two tech giants, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India conducted operations against illegal call centers across the country that claimed to provide tech support to their victims. […] ⌘ Read more
When I can’t access the logs on Monday morning ⌘ Read more
When a colleague explains that testing isn’t always necessarily needed ⌘ Read more
When the salesperson tells me they’ve found the perfect assignment for me ⌘ Read more
When I get sudo rights on a server ⌘ Read more
When I come across a solution I had posted on StackOverflow ⌘ Read more
Microsoft creates revolutionary technology capable of storing data in glass for 10,000 years
Microsoft’s R&D division is working on an innovative data storage system on glass. If successful, this project could store data without degradation for millennia. It’s well known that the magnetic media used in traditional hard drives have a limited lifespan and require renewal to ensure storage longevity. To overcome this limitation and offer a more […] ⌘ Read more
When the intern tries to help me fix the bug I’ve been stuck on for 2 hours ⌘ Read more
When the salesperson tries to follow our thought process on algorithm optimization ⌘ Read more
When the boss ignores our technical recommendations for the project ⌘ Read more
Despite its price, GitHub Copilot costs the platform millions
Who would have thought? Despite its price, Copilot, one of the features most acclaimed by GitHub developer users, turns out to be a real financial black hole for the platform! An article from the Wall Street Journal highlighted the crushing costs faced by major tech companies for their features that rely on artificial intelligence. Some […] ⌘ Read more
When I realize I’ve been working on the same project for 5 years that was supposed to last one year ⌘ Read more
Tesla opens its API for third-party apps in its cars
After years of operating in a gray area with an unofficial API, Tesla has just released the official API documentation for third-party apps in its models. This decision suggests that Elon Musk’s company could soon launch its own app store. For now, the shared API seems primarily geared towards the management of the brand’s fleet […] ⌘ Read more
When I learn that a project on a tech I love is starting soon ⌘ Read more
When the client tells us their content isn’t ready after pressuring us to deploy their site ⌘ Read more