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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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WHY SHOULD YOU (OR ANYONE) BECOME AN ENGINEERING MANAGER?

Engineering management has changed a lot over the past decade. Management seems a lot less attractive these days. However, engineering managers are incredibly important and still needed. Managers are responsible for the systems and structural support that enable engineers to deliver products and outcomes. This article lists reasons for engineers to become managers. One of the main reasons is that becoming a manager can make you better at life and relationships - the role changes who you are as a person and the relationships you have with others.

RAG TO RICHES

This article contains several stories about new developments in AI. These stories cover the competition in the AI space, the state of employment in the industry, AI strategies, Sourcegraph's Cody AI coding assistant being generally available, and more. Engineers who have committed to commenting on their code throughout the years have provided incredibly valuable context to help large language models reason about their code. The article takes a moment to thank those coders for their service in helping out AI.

IF AI IS MAKING THE TURING TEST OBSOLETE, WHAT MIGHT BE BETTER?

A team of researchers has proposed a novel framework that treats AI programs as if they were a participant in a psychological study. It has three steps: test the program in a set of experiments examining its inferences, test its understanding of its own way of reasoning, and examine, if possible, the cognitive adequacy of the source code for the program. While current generations of AI programs have come close to passing the Turing Test, the results don't imply that these programs can think and reason like humans. The new framework could be an alternative to the Turing Test for evaluating the intelligence of programs.

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