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Looking back at our Bug Bounty program in 2024

Engineering at Meta

In 2024, our bug bounty program awarded more than $2.3 million in bounties, bringing our total bounties since the creation of our program in 2011 to over $20 million. Highlights from Metas bug bounty program in 2024 In 2024, we received nearly 10,000 bug reports and paid out more than $2.3

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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant?

The Pragmatic Engineer

In some ways, it feels to me that StackOverflow is the victim of LLMs ingesting data on its own Q&A site, and providing a much better interface for developers to solve programming problems with. But now the site gets far fewer questions and answers, where will training data come from?

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 1959, the programming language COBOL was designed by software engineer Grace Hopper. The stated goal of this language was to allow business people with no programming background to use it. From Wikipedia : “In the late 1950s, computer users and manufacturers were becoming concerned about the rising cost of programming.

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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now

The Pragmatic Engineer

This is how Brooks put it: “Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. (.) Within just this group the ratios between best and worst performances average about 10:1 productivity measurements, and an amazing 5:1 on program and speed space measurements! The tester.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations.

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Composable CDPs for Travel: Personalizing Guest Experiences with AI

Snowflake

That said, managing vast, complex data sets across multiple brands, loyalty programs and guest touchpoints presents unique challenges for companies in this industry. How Composable CDPs work on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud The Snowflake AI Data Cloud centralizes customer data from reservations, loyalty programs, booking engines and more.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 1959, the programming language COBOL was designed by software engineer Grace Hopper. The stated goal of this language was to allow business people with no programming background to use it. From Wikipedia : “In the late 1950s, computer users and manufacturers were becoming concerned about the rising cost of programming.