Richard Gall

1 week ago | thoughtworks.com | Richard Gall

AI-assisted software developmentAI-assisted software development was a significant area of discussion for this Technology Radar — and that’s borne out in the blips that feature. We included a number of coding assistants, including Cursor, Cline and Windsurf [all three Tools/Trial]. Clearly the field is much richer than just GitHub Copilot and we’d encourage software developers to explore what’s available.

1 week ago | thoughtworks.com | Richard Gall

Self-RAGSelf-RAG is closely related to corrective RAG. The “self” in its name refers to self-reflection, which, as we saw above, is a feature of corrective RAG. However, it goes further than evaluating each instance of retrieval by expanding self-reflection: first to the decision to actually retrieve additional data, and then actually learning from its evaluations in an iterative manner. It does this by using three models in training: a retriever, a critic and then a generator.

2 months ago | thoughtworks.com | Richard Gall

Andrew Harmel-Law: It seems to have just been how it evolved. A very long time ago (i.e. back when I first started writing code) there were memories of architecture being something people did as opposed to a job title that people held. Perhaps the separation of roles into different people came about because the speed of development increased so rapidly, and the number of people working on systems increased so rapidly too.

Dec 9, 2024 | packtpub.com | Richard Gall |Ezéchiel Amen AGBLA |Rosario Moscato |Daniel Kapexhiu

10 min read Getting Started with Test-Driven Development in Angular 10 min read IntroductionTest-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development process widely used inAngular development to ensure code quality and reduce the time spent debugging.

Nov 18, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Richard Gall

The release of the Open Source Initiative’s definition of open source AI at the end of October was supposed to be a milestone of consensus building. It was, OSI Chair Tracy Hinds told The New Stack over email, an attempt to “drive a stake in the ground so that the industry, academia, civil society and policymakers have something to work with.”However, rather than strengthening any kind of consensus, the open source AI definition is opening up new disagreements and some considerable ill-feeling.