An in-depth look at JavaScript fundamentals including hoisting, temporal dead zone, function declarations vs expressions, shallow vs deep copy, Object.assign, slice vs splice, forEach vs map, global execution context, polyfilling, map deep dive, and type coercion.
An Architectural Decision Record (ADR) captures a single architectural decision and its rationale, helping understand the reasons for design choices along with trade-offs and consequences.
Qodo releases Qodo-Embed-1-1.5B, an open-source code embedding model that outperforms competitors from OpenAI and Salesforce, enhancing code search, retrieval, and understanding for enterprise development teams.
Does Good Software Engineering Improve the Performance of Large Language Models with Software Tasks?The article discusses how structured, modular software engineering practices enhance the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) in software development tasks. It emphasizes the importance of clear and coherent code, which allows LLMs to better understand, extend functionality, and debug. The author shares experiences from the Bad Science Fiction project, illustrating how well-engineered code improves AI collaboration.
Key takeaways:
- Modular Code: Use small, well-documented code blocks to aid LLM performance.
- Effective Prompts: Design clear, structured prompts by defining context and refining iteratively.
- Chain-of-Thought Models: Provide precise inputs to leverage structured problem-solving abilities.
- Prompt Literacy: Master expressing computational intent clearly in natural language.
- Iterative Refinement: Utilize AI consultants for continuous code improvement.
- Separation of Concerns: Organize code into server and client roles for better AI interaction.
This article outlines the differences between Software Engineering (SE) and Production Engineering (PE), and also discusses their similarities to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
