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Top Skills to Master in the Age of AI

AI is finding it's way in  a wide variety of applications pertaining to  almost every industry. This AI driven rapidly evolving landscape has created a demand for a unique blend of technical, creative, and interpersonal skills highly sought-after by employers. Listed below are some specialized AI-related skills that are becoming increasingly valuable in the modern times. 1. AI Models Development Understanding how AI and ML work including the underlying algorithms, and learning to develop ML powered apps using tools like TensorFlow or PyTorch is a highly desirable skill to master in the age of AI. Furthermore, the skills in fine-tuning and adapting large pre-trained models (like GPT, BERT, or Vision Transformers) to specific use cases are also useful, allowing you to create specialized applications without starting from scratch. Leveraging pre-trained models and adapting them to new tasks with limited data is particularly useful in NLP and computer vision. 2. AI Models Deployme...

How to be an Efficient and Highly Productive Software Developer

Becoming a good software developer involves more than just writing code. It requires adopting habits that foster continuous learning, effective problem-solving, collaborating with peers and professional growth. Efficient programmers cultivate habits that not only enhance their productivity but also contribute to the quality and maintainability of their code. Here are some good habits that efficient software developers typically practice : 1. WRITE CLEAN AND READABLE CODE Write Efficient Code:   The efficiency of a programmer is not evaluated by the number of lines of code written but by the quality of code. Good software developers write fewer lines of code and spend time commenting, documenting, testing and refactoring to make it efficient and ensure that it works as per the requirements. Use Consistent Naming Convention: Use meaningful and descriptive names for variables, functions, and classes. Consistent naming helps other developers (and your future self) understand the code ...

Automated Software Fault Localization Tools and Techniques

Software Debugging is the process of identifying and fixing errors / bugs in a faulty program discovered during testing or reported from production. Bugs may be logical errors, runtime errors or syntax errors which can lead to software crashes or incorrect outputs.  The process of debugging involves the following steps: 1. reproduce the failure, 2. locate the bug, 3. identify the root cause, 4. fix the bug, 5. test the fix, and 6. document the process. Software Debugging is extremely time consuming and very expensive, yet essential to i mprove the overall stability, reliability and performance of a software product. The  effectiveness of software debugging depends on developers’ understanding of the program being debugged and how suspicious code containing the bug is identified. During software debugging, fault localization is the process of identifying exact locations of program faults, which is very expensive and time consuming process. Since fault localization is highl...

Top AI Code Generation Tools

Software programming is a highly cognitive task requiring specific set of skills and abilities. Developing Artificial Intelligence which can generate source code can greatly help human programmers by augmenting their efforts and time. The current state of the art deep learning approaches have made it possible to train Large Language Models capable of suggesting source code in a human readable format, given basic specification requirements as input.