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With generative AI being all the rage these days, Tabnine has updated its AI-powered code completion tool for Visual Studio Code with new functionality: unit testing. The Tabnine VS Code extension in ...

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...

If you want to write Python code that takes advantage of the language's newest and most powerful features, here are four areas to explore. Although Python had its 30-year anniversary in 2021, the ...

Meta has introduced Code Llama, a large language model capable of generating code from text prompts. Code Llama includes three versions with different sizes and specialized capabilities. The model has ...

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Don't test your code? pytest removes any excuses. Software developers don't just write software; they also use software. So, they're the first to recognize, and understand, that software is complex ...