Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini
Instead of writing a bunch of code, he simply screen recorded himself scrolling through the emails … X: @defnotbeka : to me, this is a stunning indictment of the state of software today Simon Willison...
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/... Christopher Mims / @mimsical@mastodon.social : What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It's Already Doing to Coders — Software is eating the software ind...
Generative AI can make experienced programmers more productive, potentially eliminating tasks done by junior developers as companies use the tech to save money
Artificial-intelligence software is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers. Mastodon: @flargh@mastodon.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social...
A New York City public middle and high school for girls is using ChatGPT-generated lesson plans to help students examine the chatbot's usefulness and pitfalls
or more important than—knowing how to program computers.” fascinating https://twitter.com/... Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi : “Ms. Shuman was using the algorithm-generated lesson to examine the chatbot'...
GitHub is experimenting with “Hey, GitHub!”, a voice-based interaction system that lets programmers code with just their voice, in its $10/month Copilot tool
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Stack Overflow says it will add a free tier to its Teams service, limited to 50 users, and it has 1,500 Teams customers, including Microsoft and Box
Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP questions).
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases
When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July. Tweets: @backchnnl , @wired , and @rozzie Tweets: Backchan...
IBM is releasing a free course and forum next week to teach COBOL programming language, as US states struggle to find programmers for old unemployment systems
Many systems that process unemployment claims still run on a 60-year-old programming language that barely any coders understand.
Microsoft says it will give app developers an 85%-95% cut for all non-game apps, up from current 70%; new fee structure will go into effect later this year
Planned dev deal tweak lets programmers keep 95 per cent of revenue — Build Microsoft says it will take less money …