Ankur Kotwal
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Head of Google Cloud Global Advocacy.
I've just published the next part of my "Vibe Coding to Production" blog series. If you're relying on environment variables for your API keys, it's time to upgrade. I've described the end-to-end process at
blog.ankur.cc/vibe-to-prod...
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Is "Vibe Coding" the future of work, or just technical debt at the speed of thought? Lately, I’ve been exploring the bridge between AI-generated prototypes and resilient, production-ready systems. Check out the post:
blog.ankur.cc/vibe-coding-...
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https://blog.ankur.cc/vibe-coding-to-production
15 days ago
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How much time are you spending writing boilerplate tests? ⏱️ My latest post breaks down how combining Antigravity with Gemini can automate the heavy lifting and rapidly increase your test coverage. Read more here:
blog.ankur.cc/increasing-t...
24 days ago
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AI coding agents often use outdated packages or call out of date models. This is due to model knowledge cutoffs. In this blog post, I cover how to use Agent Skills to ensure Google Antigravity uses the newest Gemini APIs and stops writing deprecated code.
blog.ankur.cc/upskilling-a...
30 days ago
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📢 I’m thrilled that the new Gemini 2.5 models are here! Developers can get started building production apps right away. 🧵 for more details
9 months ago
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Guillaume Laforge
over 2 years ago
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk yesterday at @devoxx about #GenerativeAI, #LLMs, using #Java, but also @langchain4j, with #googlecloud Vertex AI's #PaLM API Here are the slides I presented:
speakerdeck.com/glaforge/gen...
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Generative AI in practice: Concrete LLM use cases in Java, with the PaLM API
Large language models (LLMs) are a powerful new technology that can be used for a variety of tasks, including generating text, translating languages, and writing different kinds of creative content. H...
https://speakerdeck.com/glaforge/generative-ai-in-practice-concrete-llm-use-cases-in-java-with-the-palm-api
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reposted by
Ankur Kotwal
Guillaume Laforge
over 2 years ago
"The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023"
tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
Extensive article covering: unicode code points, grapheme clusters, encoding (UTF-8/16/32), character normalisation Substring, comparing, measuring strings is really tricky!
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/
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"7 factors that impact developer productivity" by Suraj Vishwakarma is a good read. Devs don't spend the majority of their time coding so when you're next thinking about how to be a more productive coder, consider this.
https://dev.to/surajondev/top-7-things-that-kill-developer-productivity-ef9
over 2 years ago
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I'm really sad to read about Bram Moolenaar’s passing. I've spent countless hours of my professional and personal life using #Vim. I also admired how charitable Bram was, with his work in Uganda. Thank you for everything you did Bram!
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1
over 2 years ago
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It’s great to see Go continue to evolve.
add a skeleton here at some point
over 2 years ago
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