#software-engineering

#software-engineering

CEO Marc Benioff said during a Labor Day podcast that the company has already cut 4,000 customer support roles after deploying its own AI agents. "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads," Benioff said, calling the past eight months "the most exciting" of his career. (A Salesforce spokesperson later clarified that many of the affected jobs were support engineers who were shifted into other roles.)

I got my Master's in Computer Science in 2011, and like others, I got tracked into coding as a software engineer. I started my career as a Java engineer developing software applications. Six or seven years later, I came across the profile of machine learning. Machine learning was not in a boom at that moment. The projects we got were almost always software engineering; machine learning projects were really, really hard to get.

I started working at Google in December 2021 as a software engineer, based in New York. I spent three and a half years there and earned up to $326,000 in total compensation before taxes, but I became disillusioned with corporate life and, at age 27, I quit and became a creator and entrepreneur, traveling as a digital nomad. It's made me feel more fulfilled.

Why can't every engineer just onboard by the end of the week?

Olo's digital ordering, payment, and guest engagement solutions empower restaurants by boosting personalization, enhancing guest experiences, and optimizing operational efficiency in a competitive market.

Entering a new phase of software engineering, individuals are becoming addicted to agents. More people will create applications, necessitating new tools for support.

Nearly 100% of engineers at Robinhood are using AI code editors, making it hard to distinguish between human-written and AI-generated code, according to CEO Vlad Tenev.

When I built ZVDB, I deliberately applied every Z80 optimization I knew. Why? Because these 'old' techniques are timeless - they just happen to make modern code blazingly fast.

"This is not a sudden development -- it's an issue that's been building up for years," said Ivan Gekht, CEO of Gehtsoft, a custom-design software development firm.

Dead code refers to functions in source code that can't be reached during execution, complicating maintenance. A new tool, 'deadcode,' helps identify such functions.

She emphasized the idea that moving from exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks to production involves not just technical skills, but also leveraging software engineering principles.

"I had to get in the game," said Agarwal, who's originally from Singapore. "I was looking around at my peers... They're solving really hard technical problems, and continuing to produce research in a very cool package."

At the InfoQ Dev Summit, Michelle Brush highlighted how the increasing automation in software development is leading to more complex challenges for engineers.