Start building with Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is now generally available in the Gemini API for production use in Google AI Studio and for enterprise customers on Vertex AI. 2.0 Flash-Lite offers improved performance over 1.5 Flash across reasoning, multimodal, math and factua...
Review: Gemini Code Assist is good at coding
Given that Microsoft/GitHub/Azure and Amazon/AWS offer AI coding assistants, namely GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q Developer, which work as add-ins to Visual Studio Code and other IDEs, it was inevitable that Google/GCP would introduce one of its own. Ge...
Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report
Developers spend more time on operational and background tasks than they do on coding, according to an IDC analyst report published this month. Application development accounted for 16% of developers’ time in 2024, up from 15% the year before, while...
10 machine learning mistakes and how to avoid them
Machine learning technology is taking hold across many sectors as its applications are more widely adopted. The research firm Fortune Business Insights forecasts the global machine-learning market will expand from $26.03 billion in 2023 to $225.91 bil...
A smarter approach to training AI models
Artificial intelligence, which was thought to be handily dominated by American labs and researchers, was thrown for a loop with DeepSeek’s R1. And yet, R1 is still subject to many of the same pitfalls as other models—we must make radical advances ...
AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral
We’re living in a strange time for software development. On the one hand, AI-driven coding assistants have shaken up a hitherto calcified IDE market. As RedMonk Cofounder James Governor puts it, “suddenly we’re in a position where there is a sur...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #269
Hashtag Jakarta EE #269 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-nine of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I spoke at the Madrid JUG. We also had a panel where my colleagues at the Eclipse Foundation talked about the work they do to support the open...
GenAI is my copilot? Developers play whack-a-hallucination
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s ...
Why enterprises fail at finops
As cloud spending continues to climb, the discipline known as finops (financial operations) has emerged as a critical strategy for managing and optimizing cloud investments. This is no longer news. Finops has been a discipline and a toolkit for years....
GenAI is my copilot? Developers weigh pains and gains
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s ...
Deno adds OpenTelemetry integration
Deno Land has released Deno 2.2, a new version of the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that features built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces. The new Deno release also features Linter updates that include a new plugi...
