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Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez - Kotlin: The Next Frontier in Metaprogramming
Topic In an epic quest using Kotlin and native desktop development to generate UI testing for the T… Michael Levin Aug 21, 2019 118 views
Larry Ellison: Billionaire Samurai Warrior of Silicon Valley
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- BLOOMBERG GAME CHANGERS follows Larry Ellison from his early days in Chicago… Michael Levin Aug 8, 2019 122 views
Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer. Michael Levin Jul 31, 2019 104 views
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks Google, Apple and the NSA
Larry Ellison is America's third richest man. His company, Oracle, makes a widely-used database tha… Michael Levin Jul 21, 2019 106 views
What people think programming is vs. how it actually is
Music: Noisia - Seven Stitches I thought you might find this one entertaining... Bradlee Sargent Dec 28, 2018 116 views
Swampcast features Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun CEO
Join Michael Levin in this video interview with Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. "Jo… Michael Levin Aug 4, 2018 410 views
What do programmers actually do?
I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actual… Michael Levin Dec 2, 2017 104 views
re:publica 2017 - Maciej Ceglowski: Notes from an Emergency
Find out more at: https://re-publica.com/en/17/session/notes-emergency The Trump administration and… Michael Levin Jul 22, 2017 148 views
Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js presentation
The first presentation on Node.js from Ryan Dahl at JSConf 2009. This is a great look at issues wit… Michael Levin Feb 18, 2017 228 views
Gebeya Senior Front Engineer and Trainer: Ousmane Samba
Ousmane Samba is from Senegal. He is one of Gebeya's trainers and a bonafide senior front-end engin… Michael Levin Feb 1, 2017 124 views
OSCON 2016 Light Painting Portraits thanks to Microsoft
Taken at OSCON 2016 in Austin at the Open at Microsoft booth by Julian Cash of http://AuroraLightPo… Michael Levin Jun 12, 2016 110 views
Talking With Mycroft Developer Ryan Sipes at OSCON 2016
Ryan Sipes of the Mycroft project talks Open AI and what openness means for the fast-arriving futur… Timothy Lord May 31, 2016 120 views
Charlie Rose + Tim O'Reilly - IAB MIXX 2011
According to Tim O'Reilly, the makers want to see the things they make become reality. Wow, Tim and… Michael Levin Feb 14, 2016 97 views
Steve Wozniak's Top 10 Rules for Success
He's an inventor, electronics engineer, and a computer programmer. He was awarded with the National… Michael Levin Feb 3, 2016 112 views
Marissa Mayer's Top 10 Rules For Success
She's an American businesswoman with a degree in computer science, currently serving as the preside… Michael Levin Dec 25, 2015 146 views
Blitzscaling Session 17: Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer talks in depth about her background and tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Michael Levin Dec 13, 2015 65 views
Get Hip with JHipster: Spring Boot + AngularJS + Bootstrap by Matt Raible
Get Hip with JHipster: Spring Boot + AngularJS + Bootstrap by Matt Raible Michael Levin Nov 19, 2015 106 views
Having fun with a drone
These guys! Check out the drone. Pros? You might think so, what with that sweet skinned Porsche but… Michael Levin Sep 9, 2015 76 views
It's YOUR Java Community Process
JCP Program Manager Heather VanCura and Tori Wieldt discuss the improvements to the Java Community… Michael Levin Sep 8, 2015 66 views
Change-Making at the Largest Public Interest Startup - Mikey Dickerson Keynote
From OSCON 2015 in Portland: The Federal Government’s approach to technology is outdated and madden… Michael Levin Aug 16, 2015 102 views
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Study Finds AI-generated Code Fails to Boost Productivity Due to Downstream Bottlenecks
A recent Harvard study of 718 firms, using the Jellyfish analytics platform, finds that although AI coding assistants and agents increase code volume, this does not translate into a corresponding increase in completed work, partly because AI-generated code increases the workload in later stages of development, particularly code review.
By Sergio De SimonePresentation: Actors for Agents: Patterns for Production AI
Manju Rajashekhar explains how the actor model solves the complex runtime challenges of production AI agents. By treating agents as distributed systems, he discusses state ownership, message passing, write-through state, and supervision boundaries to manage failures, continuations, and mutable execution graphs, moving agentic workflows beyond fragile demos to resilient architecture.
By Manju RajashekharVercel Labs Open-Sources fx: A Zig Coding Agent Designed to Be Embedded
Vercel Labs has released fx, an experimental open-source coding agent written in Zig. It runs as a CLI, a script component, or an embedded library, including a WebAssembly build. Early feedback questioned its model-agnostic claim and a name conflict with an existing tool. Vercel says the project is pre-1.0 and changing quickly.
By Daniel CurtisHarbor Adds Docker Sandboxes to Run Reproducible AI Agent Evals in Isolated MicroVMs
Docker announced that Harbor, the open-source agent evaluation framework, now works with Docker Sandboxes. This change allows each evaluation task to run in its own microVM. So, instead of sharing a container, tasks are isolated for better performance
By Claudio MasoloArticle: AI Changes the Data Interface, Not the Query Engine
This article presents a disaster-recovery analytics workflow in which an AI agent generates constrained SQL or Python, DuckDB computes reproducible facts from Parquet, and the agent interprets the results. It explains the determinism split, replayable analysis, and four signals for deciding when an embedded engine is sufficient or a managed lakehouse is justified.
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