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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

But OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is letting ChatGPT reach out and interact with other applications through an API (an Application Programming Interface.) First, you should definitely care. Nuclear weapons and genetic engineering had advocates for unlimited experimentation and unfettered controls. Should you care?

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. I definitely spend a lot of time on paper first, making sure I understand what I’m really building and why. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. On a high level, where do you even begin?

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What It Means To Be A Professional

YoungUpstarts

When a project owner seeks for a software development company, they often mention in their inquiries that they want to deal with a very professional developer. But what kind of service do they actually want their developers to provide? Professional software developers. Professional project owner.

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Career Paths That Have A Clear Future

YoungUpstarts

If you’re just starting out in your career or you’re thinking of taking a new direction going forward, it’s definitely worth thinking about which jobs actually have a future right now. Mechanical Engineering. Any industry that involves machines and tech with lots of moving parts will hire a team of mechanical engineers.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive.