Save money by canceling more software projects, says survey

Enterprises should be more ruthless about cancelling projects. That’s according to project management software company Tempo, which surveyed 667 project planning leaders at the end of last year. It found that those who deployed better scenario planning and acted ruthlessly is assessing a project’s viability would be better off. According to the survey, 90% of…

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Microsoft accelerates pace of VS Code development

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer,  the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but starting from March 9 the changes will come weekly, it announced on GitHub. Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor that is…

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Databricks launches Genie Code to automate data science and engineering tasks

Databricks has launched Genie Code, a new AI agent, to help enterprise data practitioners automate data science and engineering tasks. Available as a panel inside Databricks’ notebooks, SQL Editor, and Lakeflow Pipelines editor, Genie Code can be used to plan, build, deploy, and maintain end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows, including automating experiment tracking with MLflow,…

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Migrating Python to Rust with Claude: What could go wrong?

Take a wild ride with us, as we use a large language model to convert a Python app to Rust. Also, could Pandas finally compel you to ditch Excel? And, is Python’s native JIT the Python performance booster we’ve all been waiting for? All this and more, in this week’s report. Top picks for Python…

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