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| Here's a look at today's Dev briefing. - JumpCloud survey reveals IT leaders consider AI a beneficial addition but are concerned about its effect on security.
- A new feature in Visual Studio received pushback from developers.
- Kong introduced six new plugins in Kong Gateway 3.6.
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| 1 | | Per JumpCloud's recent State of IT 2024 report, IT leaders consider AI to be beneficial for their organization but are concerned about its potential effects on security and individual careers. JumpCloud surveyed 1,213 SME IT decision-makers from U.S., U.K., and India to prepare the report. More: - A mere 13% of organizations currently have plans to implement AI initiatives, and over three-fourths (76%) agree their organizations should invest in AI.
- Nearly eight out of 10 respondents (79%) feel optimistic about AI, and 55% said their organization is approaching AI at the right speed, while only 6% see it as a net negative.
- Over half (56%) of IT leaders consider security as its biggest IT challenge, followed by new services and application rollouts (45%), increased work burden (44%), and the cost of remote work solutions (42%).
- Over the past year, 57% of organizations have undergone layoffs, while 27% have not experienced layoffs and do not anticipate one in the next six months.
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| 2 | | The new automatic install of the recommended components feature in the Visual Studio installer has sparked a backlash from developers. Microsoft released the first preview of Visual Studio 17.10 with recommended components along with other features to improve productivity, debudding and diagnostics capabilities, etc. More: - According to the announcement post, Visual Studio will now automatically install recommended components during updates to enhance the software development experience.
- Contrary to the announcement, the feature, which is enabled by default, appears in the latest version and earlier versions of Visual Studio as well, leading to confusion among developers.
- One developer commented the move was a mistake and it looked like a marketing stunt to get new components installed.
- Developers are concerned that the feature could cause a potential bloat of Visual Studio with unwanted features, break a configured developer setup, or introduce security risks.
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| 3 | | Kong announced the inclusion of six new open-source AI plugins in Kong Gateway 3.6, which can convert any Kong Gateway deployment into an AI Gateway. The plugins focused on AI and LLM usage are available for free to all users. More: - The plugins, built on top of Kong Gateway, enable developers to integrate one or more LLMs into their apps to enhance productivity and ship AI capabilities faster.
- AI-based features in the plugins include the ability to build multi-LLM integrations, manage AI credentials centrally, collect L7 AI metrics, advanced prompt engineering, and an AI prompt firewall.
- The gateway currently supports Anthropic, Azure, Cohere, Meta's LLaMA models, Mistral, and OpenAI.
- Kong plans to launch paid premium features and add more AI capabilities in the coming months.
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| 4 | | LangChain announced the general availability of LangSmith and its $25M Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. LangChain launched the closed beta of LangSmith in July 2023. More: - LangSmith provides developers with a solution for LLM application development, monitoring, and testing.
- Since the beta launch, LangChain claims LangSmith has experienced over 80,000 signups, 5,000 monthly active teams, and 40 million traces logged in January.
- The solution is being used by teams building with LLMs at more than 5,000 companies, including Rakuten, Elastic, Moody's, Retool, etc.
- In the coming months, LangChain intends to include support for regression testing, the ability to run online evaluators on a sample of production data, better filtering and conversation support, and easy deployment of applications with hosted LangServe.
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| 5 | | New Tools and Updates: - Microsoft announced the general availability of the Microsoft Graph Toolkit v4.0, which includes productivity upgrades in LOB and ISV apps, promotes search components to GA, and other bug fixes and improvements.
- New features in Angular version 17.2 include experimental support for Material 3, signal queries, model inputs, Nelify loader, and hydration debugging support in Angular DevTools.
- ngrok announced the preview of API Gateway Service to simplify API delivery through traffic routing, JWT authentication and authorization, rate limiting, and flexible request/response manipulation.
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| 6 | | 📚 Tutorials: - Learn how to build a full-stack job listing website with Next.js 14.
- This post compares the new @Observable macro in iOS 17 with ObersvableObject.
- Here is a case study on reducing dependencies in Go libraries.
- Find out how to animate along a path in CSS.
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| 7 | | Quick Hits: - Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing posted on X that Vision Pro has over 1,000 apps expressly designed for the recently launched VR headset.
- Figma and StackBlitz are hosting a Web Dev community meetup on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. PT.
- According to OpenSSF's annual report for its Alpha-Omega project, it provided ten grants to eight organizations totaling over $2.8M, up 38% YoY.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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