How to Build Effective LLMs When Both Basic Infrastructure and Model Training Data Are Lacking
In a conversation with Jade Abbott, CTO and co-founder of Lelapa AI, we discussed how the basic infrastructure scarcities found on the African continent can ignite innovation and help push forward the AI space. Particularly when dealing with never-written languages, you need to be innovative to generate proper data and divide the problem into minor problems that can be solved with fewer intensive resources.
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How To Improve the Quality of the Gen AI-Generated Code And Your Team’s Dynamics
Birgitta Böckeler, Thoughtworks’ subject matter expert on Generative AI coding assistants, discusses how to enhance generated code by incorporating additional information into its context, and how your team’s dynamics will evolve with the adoption of these tools.
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InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends in 2025
The panel discussion in this episode is one half of the annual InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends Report. The other half is the written report .
One of the regular features of InfoQ are the trends reports, which each focus on a different aspect of software development. These reports provide the InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to this year, and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies across all the content on InfoQ.
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Embrace the Requirements of The EU Cyber Resilience Act to Strengthen Your Software Project
Eddie Knight, OSPO lead at Sonatype, discusses how the EU Cyber Resilience Act can help with improving your software project’s security and in the same time to slow down the alarming acceleration of software supply chain attacks.
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Wenjie Zi on Technology and Organizational Aspects for ML Project Success
In this podcast, Wenjie Zi discusses why many ML projects don’t succeed and what technology and organizational aspects affect the success of those projects. She also talked about what potential communication and understanding gaps can exist between business team and ML practitioners and how to address these gaps.
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