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eBay’s Lessons Learned about Generative AI in Software Development Productivity

Recently eBay disclosed the lessons learned about the application of generative AI in the development process. eBay’s AI efforts have uncovered three pivotal avenues toward enhancing developer productivity: integrating commercial offerings, fine-tuning existing Large Language Models (LLMs), and harnessing an internal knowledge network.

Adopting commercial AI solutions such as GitHub Copilot has yielded promising results for eBay’s developer community. In a meticulously designed A/B test, developers using Copilot demonstrated heightened productivity, marked by a notable increase in code acceptance rates (27% code acceptance rate reported through Copilot telemetry), and efficiency metrics: 60% accuracy for the generated code. The introduction of Github Copilot also allows a decrease of PR (about 17%) and a decrease (about 12%) of the Lead time for Change. However, limitations such as prompt size constraints underscore the need for tailored solutions in the context of eBay’s vast codebase.

By post-training and fine-tuning open-source LLMs like Code Llama, and in particular Code Lllama 13B, eBay has unveiled new avenues for streamlining labor-intensive tasks and mitigating code duplication. The development of eBayCoder, a bespoke model trained on the organization’s proprietary data (code base and documentation), showcases the potential for LLM customization in addressing nuanced challenges unique to eBay’s ecosystem.

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Space Force selects startup Defense Unicorns to update software at launch ranges

WASHINGTON — A startup called Defense Unicorns has won a $15 million contract to update IT systems and software applications used to support rocket launches at US Space Force ranges.

The company, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, won a so-called Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, agreement from SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the Space Force.

STRATFI contracts are awarded to companies that have won Small Business Innovation Research projects to help transition products from development to production and to help small businesses attract private investors.

Funding amounts for STRATFI contracts range from $3 million to $15 million per project. SpaceWERX last week announced STRATFI awards to Defense Unicorns and other firms.

Defense Unicorns’ STRATFI agreement is over five years.

The company last week announced it raised a $35 million Series A funding round led by Sapphire Ventures and Ansa Capital.

Transitioning legacy systems

Andrew Greene, co-founder of Defense Unicorns, said the company was formed three years ago by former developers from Department of Defense software factories. The. The firm specializes in transitioning legacy military systems that are typically disconnected from the internet to digital IT infrastructure.

Software modernization is sorely needed at Space Force launch ranges at Cape Canaveral, Florida;

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Don’t Ignore The Insider Selling In Constellation Software

We wouldn’t blame Constellation Software Inc. (TSE:CSU) shareholders if they were a little worried about the fact that Mark Leonard, the Founder recently netted about CA$23m selling shares at an average price of CA$3,764. However, that sale only accounted for 1.4% of their holding, so arguably it doesn’t say much about their conviction.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Constellation Software

Notably, that recent sale by Mark Leonard was the biggest insider sale of Constellation Software shares that we’ve seen in the last year. So what is clear is that an insider sees fit to sell at around the current price of CA$3,751. We generally don’t like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. Given that the sale took place at around current prices, it makes us a little cautious but is hardly a major concern.

Over the last year we saw more insider selling of Constellation Software shares, than buying. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when,

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Dataline debuts latest MultiPress software at Fespa

Software developer Dataline Solutions has debuted its latest MultiPress software package at Fespa’s Global Print Expo.

MultiPress 6.0, called ‘Sirius’, follows on from Multipress 5.4, Polaris. Available from Q3 2024, the updated wide-format and signage printing software package includes a number of new and updated features.

In addition to Polaris’ customer relationship management (CRM), e-business, calculation, communication, planning, production, purchasing, logistics, invoicing and reporting, Sirius has a dedicated display wizard, grouped partial orders, and a brand-new app.

MultiPress’ Order Manager 2.0, however, provides the main difference for ordinary users. The revamped toolset allows order managers to follow jobs all the way to production, alongside checking and repairing files, driving the proofing process and assigning files. The Order Manager 2.0’s updated dashboard, Dataline said, has allowed for “significant simplification of complex processes”.

Also new to Sirius is MultiPress’ Display Wizard, designed specifically for the calculation, management and production of displays and complex point-of-sale jobs.

The wizard will allow users to treat each part of a display as a separate order, while maintaining the connection between these separate parts throughout all steps of the administrative and production processes. Users can then keep an overview during material reservation, print production and finishing, and

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