Google Enters 'Vibe-Coding' Fray with Opal, an Experimental No-Code AI App Builder
#AI #Google #Opal #NoCode #VibeCoding #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech #Alphabet
This week's newsletter will be out tomorrow. Interesting stuff by @django @s_gruppetta Hugo van Kemenade @mitsuhiko & Jordi Esteve Sorribas covered
https://newsletter.piptrends.com/p/djangos-ecosystem-python-backstage
If you think you know a lot about f-strings, try this quiz made by @mitsuhiko I scored 11 and learned that you can do many cool things with f-strings. I hope you have fun & learning too!
“The next natural step is finding that early adopter.”
Phil Le-Brun, Director of Enterprise Strategy at #AWS—and one of our investors—shares what impressed him about Leapter’s live demo and why early enterprise traction is key.
Transparent logic
Human-verifiable systems
AI you can actually understand
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Managing dev, staging, and production environments can be tricky. This DeployHQ article shows how their platform simplifies multi-environment deployments, tackling common challenges with features like Templates and Deployment Availability.
"[W]hat we are doing is shepherding AI, limiting it to certain contexts. We are learning where it’s best to call it, how is best to feed it. And what to do with the output. So is it looks very much like an editorial process, an editorial workflow where you provide some initial input, maybe some some idea on what content to produce, then you review it. There’s always that quality assurance, quality control side, the supervision.
AI is not really autonomous. It relies a lot on us. And I feel like sometimes there are days where, when coding through AIs or doing some assisted writing, I’m spending more time helping out the AI doing the actual task that I’m asking the AI to do. But I take this as a learning process. I read this article the other day, Nobody knows how to build with AI yet. And it was a developer saying that they haven’t quite figured out how to best work with AI. There were lots of comments around the fact that you have to spend lots of time, you have to learn how to talk to it, and when the model changes, you have to also maybe change something you’re doing. You have to learn how to optimize your time. But your presence is always mandatory.”
What is WhatsApp made of? Zoom: https://nubecolectiva.com/comunidad/flyers/whatsapp-technologies/
¿Con Qué Esta Hecho WhatsApp? Zoom: https://nubecolectiva.com/comunidad/flyers/tecnologias-de-whatsapp/
How to Subtract in the Go Programming Language.
Cómo Restar En El Lenguaje de Programación Go.
https://nubecolectiva.com/blog/como-restar-en-el-lenguaje-de-programacion-go/
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AI code generation is boosting software development , but is it creating a security blind spot?
The speed of AI-driven coding outpaces our current security assessment capabilities.
Are we creating more vulnerabilities than we can effectively manage?
#Aiacceleratedsoftwaredevelopment #AISecurity #SoftwareDevelopment #DeepTech
https://dougortiz.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-ai-code-generation-security-paradox.html
An "AI" chatbot kept telling Soundslice users that a particular feature existed. Even though it didn't.
Eventually, Soundslice's developers just added the feature. It's been described as "gaslight-driven development".
https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-hallucinated-a-feature-forcing-human-developers-to-add-it/
#AI is here to stay - and it’s a HUGE opportunity for #Java & #Spring developers!
#SpringAI 1.0 is now available - a comprehensive solution for AI engineering in Java, shaped by rapid advances in the AI space.
In this #InfoQ article, Josh Long examines the new Spring AI 1.0 project and explores how it can be used to integrate AI more effectively!
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4lTYBc3
We all know that the Python interpreter changes our code into an intermediate form called bytecode. With the dis module, you can see what this bytecode looks like. In this article, @s_gruppetta explained what happens inside when we run a Python program.
https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/python-disassembling-bytecode-dis-module
This is awesome. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem advances with a huge update to the MCP C# SDK.
I'm itching to give this a try. Python is the favourite for AI programming, and .NET needs more love.
It is so easy to build a well structured and performant web app using nothing but vanilla #javascript, CSS and HTML that I wonder why we even use some of these frontend frameworks, bundlers or even npm for that matter. It's probably like a life choice at this point more than a serious technical choice. #softwaredevelopment
As a software developer, it's so easy to go overboard with criticising yourself…
It’s often pretty unhelpful…
I should have fixed that bug in less time.
I should have already known the solution to that problem.
I should be spending more time keeping up to date with new frameworks.
Vibe coding is *really* bad, but you'd be backward to not integrate some level of AI into your programming workflow. Especially if the given tools are privacy respecting.
Tomorrow night at 6:30 pm-8:30pm! (Thu 7/24/25)
We will be at 76 Race Street for our Hack Night at a community garden! Don't worry if you're not a green thumb kind of person since we'll still be using laptops and working on our usual GitHub projects.
Event Info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-night-civic-action-night-with-open-source-san-jose-tickets-1493594253619