A City's AI Upskilling Program Empowers Staff to Build Tools
The city of San Jose, Calif.’s training course has enabled employees — including those with little to no experience using AI technologies — to develop their own AI-powered tools.
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If the supreme goal for software development teams is to get high-quality products to market as quickly, efficiently, and securely as possible, then deploying AI-powered tools for devops might be the way to achieve that objective. AI-powered tools can help to speed up software delivery, enhance system reliability, and reduce operational costs by automating complex and repetitive tasks. They enable development, operations, and security staffers to resolve incidents more quickly, detect anomalies proactively, optimize cloud resource management, and ultimately accelerate processes throughout the development life cycle. AI and devops – a natural fit In many ways, AI and devops seem made for each other. Any automation that teams can add to the software development process is a plus. “At this point, most of the enterprise teams I work with have moved well beyond experimenting and AI is part of the daily workflow,” says Jackie Swanson, managing partner at research firm Gartner. “The on-ramp f
Read full articleThe city of San Jose, Calif.’s training course has enabled employees — including those with little to no experience using AI technologies — to develop their own AI-powered tools.
JetBrains has announced JetBrains AI for Teams and Organizations, an initiative that promises to deliver a broad set of AI capabilities that connects AI tools developers already use with shared context, reusable agentic workflows, and organization-wide governance and cost control for software production. The intent is to move users from fragmented AI usage to coordinated software development, the company said. Unveiled July 7, JetBrains AI for Teams and Organizations will provide a unified system for agentic software development, according to the company. Vendor-agnostic by design, JetBrains AI for Teams and Organizations will connect external tools via Model Context Protocol (MCP) and external agents via Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Organizations will be able to evolve their AI stack without sacrificing governance or developer choice, the company said. Alongside new capabilities, JetBrains plans to evolve its commercial model to better support AI-powered software development. For bus
OpenAI has announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Patch the Planet, partnering with security firm Trail of Bitsto help open source software maintainers identify and fix vulnerabilities in their codebases using AI-powered tools. Under the programme, security engineers from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source project maintainers, reviewing potential code issues before […]
Glendale Community College president Tiffany Hernandez apologized for the mistakes and eventually offered many students a do-over. | Screenshot: YouTube The use of AI-powered tools to announce students as they walk on stage during graduation and commencement ceremonies has grown in popularity over the past few years, but it's not always succeeding at the one job it's there for. Many schools have switched to these systems as a way to ensure names are being pronounced correctly, but during a recent livestream of a Glendale Community College commencement ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona, the AI announcer mispronounced some names and skipped others entirely as a result of timing issues as graduates walked across the stage. The ceremony was paused at least twice in an attempt to fix the issues, whi … Read the full story at The Verge.