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Jennifer Riggins

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

tech culture journalist | pro writer since 2003 | 7yo mommy | ‘inimitable’ ‘force of nature’ ‘a little bit sweary’ 'the one journo I can trust' | she/her

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  • 3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins

    “I saw something on X where somebody had basically said, ‘Look, I vibe coded this app. I don’t need developers. I’m cool.’ And then, within 24 hours, they’d been attacked. It had not all the security vectors covered, or any of the stuff that you need to think about when you know you’re a deep software developer.”This is how Rachel Laycock, CTO of Thoughtworks, kicked off a very reflective conversation with The New Stack on the future of AI and its current impact on the tech industry.

  • 4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins

    It seems like every company is in rush to fit AI into their product. But what does that actually look like at scale? How can you move fast without breaking all the things? Without breaking the bank on cloud bills? At the end of 2023, Atlassian leadership brainstormed an AI wishlist for their suite of productivity tooling.

  • 1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins

    Spotify is an extreme dogfooding organization. The audio streaming company invests heavily in its own internal developer experience, proving tooling like Backstage in-house before launching to new customers and even open source contributors. Now Spotify is applying that ethos to AI-backed knowledge consolidation — and broadly sharing the challenges that go into building that.

  • 1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins

    How to Run a Generative AI Developer Tooling Experiment contributed, Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash Editor’s note: Jennifer Riggins created this post on behalf of DX.

  • 1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins

    ANAHEIM, CALIF. — So much of generative AI (GenAI) for engineers is focused on the inner loop, especially AI-generated code. Despite that, developers want to spend more time writing code — and AI isn’t exactly great at that (yet, anyway). What really slows down developer productivity is that outer loop, which has engineers waiting on other teams and systems. This is especially true with knowledge sharing and discovery, as poor or missing documentation continues to top developers’ complaint lists.

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