
AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI.

Splunk Adds Generative AI Tool and OpenTelemetry Collector
Splunk added an assistant that leverages generative AI capabilities to enable IT teams to use natural language to invoke the Splunk Processing Language (SPL).

State of API Report Highlights Productization and Generative AI
Postman’s fifth annual State of the API report sheds light on the ongoing API productization movement and API developers’ use of generative AI.

Is ChatGPT Helping or Hurting Your Developers’ Productivity?
ChatGPT’s ability to translate natural language into working code has sparked tremendous interest in the programming community. Developers are exploring ways to use ChatGPT to reduce redundant tasks, from creating code snippets to analyzing and debugging programs. This also allows them to focus on more complex tasks like data analysis and monitoring with the help […]

Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
In this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words.

Are LLMs Leading DevOps Into a Tech Debt Trap?
Some of the most alluring uses of LLMs could lead to terrible outcomes for enterprises and their DevOps and platform engineering teams.

BigPanda Extends AIOps Platform to Embrace Generative AI
BigPanda added generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to analyze incidents surfaced by its AI for IT operations (AIOps) platform.

Key Insights From the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey
Stack Overflow’s 2023 developer survey reveals insights into programming language and tooling preferences and the use of AI in the development workflow. Here’s what these trends could mean for DevOps.

Tabnine Unveils Beta of Generative AI Automated Testing Tool
Tabnine this week made available in beta a tool that enables developers to use natural language to interact with the artificial intelligence (AI) models embedded within its test automation platform. Brandon Jung, vice president of ecosystems for Tabnine, said Tabnine Chat extends generative AI capabilities the company developed to make it simpler for developers to […]

OutSystems Embraces Generative AI to Speed App Dev
OutSystems, via a Project Morpheus initiative, intends to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to make it possible to automatically generate an application that developers will then use low-code tools to customize for specific use cases. In the meantime, the company is extending an existing alliance with Microsoft to provide a connector that integrates its […]

Harness Brings Generative AI Capabilities to DevOps Workflows
Harness today added a raft of generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of a larger effort to reduce the level of manual toil that today conspires to create DevOps bottlenecks. The added generative AI capabilities include an AI Development Assistant (AIDA), which analyzes log files and correlates […]

BMC Adds Generative AI Capabilities to Helix Management Platform
BMC today revealed it is embedding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its BMC Helix service and operations management platforms. BMC CTO Ram Chakravarti said the company is incorporating the open source GPT-J large language models (LLMS) to build generative AI models. Those models are optimized for specific domains using data collected by BMC and […]

Supercharging Ansible Automation With AI
Whether the latest incarnations of generative AI will live up to their seemingly great promise remains to be seen. This does not always happen with new technology, but the torrent of AI advancements is promising disruption across nearly every industry. Instead of posing a threat to human roles, AI now aims to make tasks easier, […]

PagerDuty Signals Commitment to Adding Generative AI Capabilities
PagerDuty has signaled its intention to add generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its cloud platform for managing IT operations via integrations with large language model (LLM) providers that it will disclose at a future date. These capabilities will make it possible to invoke natural language via PagerDuty Operations Cloud to automatically generate status updates, […]

Friend or Foe? ChatGPT’s Impact on Open Source Software
OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm, amassing 100 million users in the first two months after its public launch. The continued interest in the tool has created a buzz among developers, especially those in the open source community. But this begs the question: How will ChatGPT impact open source software? Amid the excitement and […]

No, Dev Jobs Aren’t Dead: AI Means ‘Everyone’s a Programmer’? ¦ Interesting Intel VPUs
In this week’s #TheLongView: Nvidia’s CEO grabs headlines by saying your career is toast, and Intel is still fighting.

Logz.io Taps AI to Surface Incident Response Recommendations
Logz.io this week added a supervised machine learning capability to its observability platform that reduces mean-time-to-remediation by surfacing recommendations for resolving incidents. Asaf Yigal, vice president of product for Logz.io, said the Alert Recommendation capability added to the Logz.io Open360 platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to model the steps a DevOps team needs to complete […]

Checkmarx Brings Generative AI to SAST and IaC Security Tools
Under an early access program, Checkmarx today made available query builder and guided automation tools that take advantage of OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to make it simpler for developers to resolve application security issues. AI Guided Remediation surfaces actionable remediation recommendations for vulnerability issues such as misconfigurations directly from within integrated development environments […]

GitLab Adds More AI and Cybersecurity Capabilities to CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week delivered an update to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds additional generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity capabilities. The GitLab 16 release included cybersecurity capabilities such as centralized policy management, expanded compliance reports and controls, compliance dashboards and default Level 3 attestation for the supply-chain levels for software artifacts (SLSA) […]

Red Hat Adds Generative AI and Event-Driven Capabilities to Ansible
Red Hat today unveiled a technical preview of Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service specifically trained on domain-specific data collected via the Ansible automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat is also making available an event-driven capability within version 2.4 of the Ansible platform that enables runbooks […]

OpenAI to go Open Source — Elon Musk was a ‘Huge Idiot’ ¦ Mojo Risin’
In this week’s #TheLongView: Sources say it’s an open source future for OpenAI, and improving AI perf with Mojo.

Boomi Brings Generative AI to Integration Platform
Boomi announced today it is applying generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enable organizations to automate integrations via a natural language interface. Boomi CEO Steve Lucas said Boomi AI makes it much simpler for professional and citizen developers alike to create integrations at scale using generative AI platforms to invoke the low-code engine that Boomi already […]

Google Previews Generative AI Service to Improve Code
Google is previewing an instance of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service that surfaces code recommendations to make it possible to build high-quality applications faster. Specifically, Duet AI for Google Cloud surfaces code recommendations in real-time, generates full functions and code blocks and suggests fixes for vulnerabilities and errors in the code that it discovers. […]