6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (871+ words) A year ago, most enterprise AI systems generated recommendations. Today, AI systems are approving transactions, routing shipments, updating records, interacting with customers, and triggering downstream software actions with little or no human involvement. For CIOs, that shift changes the central…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1708+ words) Docker didn’t invent containers—the method of packaging up computer code into compact units that could be easily ported from laptop to server to server—but it did take them mainstream by creating a common set of open source tooling…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (411+ words) Faster Python has stopped becoming a pipe dream, and is now a major topic for its development. Sometimes that comes by way of new syntax (lazy imports), sometimes by JIT compilation, and sometimes by generating C code from Python. Sometimes,…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (232+ words) With the rise of AI agents, there has been a corresponding rise in complementary software tools that give both agents and LLMs expanded memory capabilities. Most of the time, this means giving an agent or model persistent memory across sessions,…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (1022+ words) The result is a growing gap between what teams think observability should provide and what current tools actually deliver. The uncomfortable truth? The AI observability tools we have today are built for yesterday’s problems. To understand where the industry is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (440+ words) These days, we’ve moved the discussion up a layer — what is the better model for coding? Things aren’t quite as intense as the VB/Delphi dustups, but people have their opinions. Companies are taking a look at different models before…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (249+ words) Maxwell began writing about technology in 1984, when mainframes ruled the world. Since then he has written for just about every business computing title in the UK, and for a few in the US, covering everything from Artificial intelligence to Zero-day…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (372+ words) Meta’s long-awaited Pyrefly linter is out in a 1.0 version, and the forthcoming Python 3.15 has a super-efficient sampling profiler. Plus we have a comprehensive rundown of Python’s indispensable virtual environments — and a warning about a novel breed of malware that exploits Python’s…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1535+ words) Most generative AI tools know less about R than languages like JavaScript and Python, thanks to how much training data is available for each. However, with a little extra setup, you can give a large language model (LLM) the knowledge it…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1026+ words) We’ve all heard the mantra from the quants in the business community: you can’t manage what you can’t measure. And if that’s true for human intelligence, it should be true for the artificial kind too. How do we measure agents…...