Google Cloud has struck a deal with Stack Overflow that will marry Stack Overflow’s knowledge base with Google’s AI, Gemini.
Gemini for Google Cloud will be able to provide developers with suggestions, code and other information from Stack Overflow, using a new Overflow API. Gemini was previously called Bard but was rebranded this year. Customers of Google Cloud also will be able to receive Stack Overflow’s technical knowledge from within the Google Cloud Console. For its part, StackOverflow will be hosted on Google Cloud and will leverage Google Cloud’s AI capabilities to “improve [its] community engagement experiences and content curation processes.” That is expected to speed up the content approval process, according to press release issued by both parties.
The first set of new integrations and capabilities between Stack Overflow and Gemini for Google Cloud will be available in the first half of this year. The integration will also be previewed at Google Cloud Next, April 9-11.
Most (91%) of surveyed JetBrains AI Assistant users said the coding assistant saved them time, according to a recent survey by the IDE provider.
The survey queried 640 users in early February, 59% of whom were senior developers with more than 10 years experience. JetBrains declined to say how many of its users have deployed the AI, but of those surveyed, 59% report they saved between an hour to five hours per week by using the AI for coding help. Another 11% said the AI saved them more than five hours a week.
Developers with up to two years of coding experience reaped the greatest time-saving benefits, it found.
Given those results, it’s not surprising that 77% said they felt more productive with the AI. But what is a bit more surprising is that 75% expressed that they are happier with their IDE experience and 66% are more satisfied with their workflow when using the AI assistant. The happiness quotient might be related to another finding, which was that the majority of developers reported spending less time on information searches and said they were able to complete tasks more quickly. All of which gives them more time for more interesting work tasks, said 55% of those surveyed. Hence, happier programmers.
Another factor that might be driving that happiness finding: 58% report that it takes less mental effort to complete tasks and nearly half noticed their ability to focus and enter a “flow state” improved.
“Considering that organizational processes and culture (such as the number of meetings and the organization of knowledge sharing) are likely to have a significant impact on work interruptions and workflow friction, it is notable that our Assistant has helped nearly half of the respondents in these aspects,” JetBrains noted in its findings.
Shopify recently rolled out over 100 product updates, many aimed at developers and improving developer experience.
Among the changes: Hydrogen, Shopify’s framework for building its headless storefront, now has more advanced debugging tools. The platform also made it easier and faster to deploy on Hydrogen.
The platform also added order status and thank you page extensions and support for new color properties and color schemes via the Checkout Branding API. The company also now offers Checkout Sheet Kit for native mobile app deployment. The kit allows developers to provide one-page checkout directly within the native app while retaining the branding and other customizations of a fully-featured checkout, the company said.
Other extensibility updates:
Run code action in Shopify Flow to add logic, summarize data and calculate dates, among other actions.Shopify also made improvements to developer experience, including:
shopify app deploy.Finally, Shopify has added new app comparison and feature mapping to let developers highlight key features about their apps on the new app comparison page. The platform also improved the installation experience by including app permissions on the app details page and will also provide more app promotion and visibility on its Shopify App Store.
Bun released v1.0.29 this week, fixing eight bugs. For the curious, that brings the bug fixes for this month to 116 for February.
Bun is a JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager; it competes with Node.
This release also incorporates more frequent updates for bunx, which is “like npx except powered by bun install,” creator Jarred Sumner noted in a blog post about the updates. Originally, bunx was not checking for updates as frequently as it should due to a cache invalidation bug, he said. Now, bunx relies on the timestamp from stat to determine if it’s been 24 hours since the last check, a more reliable method, he said. That means it now starts a hundred times faster than npx, he added.
