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  • Slashdot: AI Tackles Aging COBOL Systems as Legacy Code Expertise Dwindles

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1725256/ai-tackles-aging-cobol-systems-as-legacy-code-expertise-dwindles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tackles Aging COBOL Systems as Legacy Code Expertise Dwindles Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the transition of US government agencies and Fortune 500 companies from legacy COBOL systems to modern solutions using AI technologies. It emphasizes the urgent need for upgrades due…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ellie Huxtable

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/22/ellie-huxtable/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ellie Huxtable Feedly Summary: I was against using AI for programming for a LONG time. It never felt effective. But with the latest models + tools, it finally feels like a real performance boost If you’re still holding out, do yourself a favor: spend a few…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/google-cloud-database-and-langchain-integrations-support-go-java-and-javascript/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript Feedly Summary: Last year, Google Cloud and LangChain announced integrations that give generative AI developers access to a suite of LangChain Python packages. This allowed application developers to leverage Google Cloud’s database portfolio in their gen…

  • AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-graviton4-based-instances-with-nvme-ssd-storage/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage Feedly Summary: AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Feedly Summary: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the word…