A Java library just tried to trick AI coding agents into deleting your tests, and it almost worked

The latest flare-up in the debate over AI-assisted coding did not come from a new model release or a benchmark result. It came from a single ...
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Most of GitHub is duplicate code – Study

A study has found that around 70% of the code on GitHub is duplicated, reported The Register. Researchers set out to define how much files changed between different clones, but ended up discovering a ...
TheServerSide

Shorter code, fewer bugs: Python's syntax is its saving grace

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 ...
GitHub

[Bug]: Not possible to select field of type Date in the Duplicate Search String Setup page

In the lookup page that opens only fields of type Code and Text can be selected: Is there any reason to add this restriction? In NAV there were customizations made so that the users were able to ...
IEEE

Studying Duplicate Logging Statements and Their Relationships With Code Clones

Abstract: Developers rely on software logs for a variety of tasks, such as debugging, testing, program comprehension, verification, and performance analysis. Despite the importance of logs, prior ...
GitHub

Error with multi-line string (duplicate)

ERROR:root:An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid The error message is: ('EOF in multi-line string ...
IEEE

Does code review really remove coding convention violations?

Abstract: Many software developers perceive technical debt as the biggest problems in their projects. They also perceive code reviews as the most important process to increase code quality. As ...