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Getting Started: AI-Augmented Software Outsourcing Company

Introduction

AI has been the talk of the town for quite a long now, & there is a lot of news about its widespread. AI-augmented Software Development is a process of developing more reliable, effective, and cost-effective software. As a result, organizations should hire a reliable Software Outsourcing Company to execute the strategy effectively.

What is AI-Augmented Software Development?

AI has been creating buzz with its excellence in every part of our lives, in the same way, AI augmentation is putting its impact. The idea here is to make AI and humans work together. By implementing this collaboration, organizations are in the hunt to create a mutually beneficial workplace.

Now let’s understand what we owe this rising trend of AI augmentation.

AI Augmented Software Development: What do we owe it?

Recently there were instances when AI systems failed to handle unexpected situations, unlike a human does. To give an example of this, a self-driven car that was trained in sunny California might have to struggle in snow-friendly conditions.

The development of modern methods that understand human language changed the situation by being a solution to the problem. This method is making AI-augmented software more practical and viable. The flexibility of these new developments is allowing us to leverage more information by making the system more relevant.

Now, let’s understand what’s the future of this trend and where it will head in the coming years.

Where is this Development trend going in the coming years?

Let's understand this using its popularity in two major areas, which are: Testing & DevOps.

Being a remote developer you use a lot of development tools to write tests and basic codes. AI augmentation can help you create the basic testing codes easily by saving a lot of time. Not only this, you are also using these tools to get the right suggestions about the name of your tests.

By using AI in software development, you will get better alterations in the process. AI will help you to test logic based on your questions & will help you understand all the plain text.

Now. let's understand how AI augmentation can help in DevOps.

If we talk about DevOps, the team is facing the barriers of managing the alerts & monitoring the data received. By using AI augmentation, companies can easily rectify these errors. The recent advancements make AI fully capable of monitoring & fixing issues without any human interference.

How does AI help in developing better Software?

By using AI-augmented Software the developers reduce a lot of cognitive load which lies in their responsibilities. AI augmentation helps organizations work faster & with less amount of errors, by reducing complexity.

By doing this AI augmentation makes sure that they are enabling the developers to focus more on creativity. We would suggest hire remote developers to develop the most efficient software.

Some Questions about AI-Augmented Software Development

Let’s get the answers to all the questions one by one:

Why is AI-augmented Software Development gaining so much popularity?

Due to its capability of smoothening the coding process, AI augmentation has become popular. This enables the developers to write codes & tests which makes the process more effective by reducing the excessive workload.

What are the advantages of AI-augmented Software Development?

The benefits of AI-augmented Software Development are as under:

It boosts the productivity

Enhances the code quality and accuracy

What’s the best way to get started?

When you start AI-augmented Software development, it is important to be aware of all the tools and techniques to gain AI access.

You should also learn the best practices to integrate AI into your software development environment. Not only this you should also take the initiative to understand the specific capabilities that AI tools hold.

What are the pitfalls/disadvantages of AI-augmented Software Development?

The major pitfalls or drawbacks of AI-augmented software development are:

Overreliance on AI tools

Understanding deep codebase can result in difficulty.

It is difficult to keep track of data privacy and security.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

It is very crucial to stay updated about AI in software development.

The rapid increase of AI has made technological advancements possible. This advancement might lead the organizations to adopt new technologies & tools that will emerge, & staying updated would be helpful.

Continuously learning by adapting to the industry changes will help in building integration between AI and software development practices.

Now, let’s understand the best practices that businesses can use to smoothen the outsourcing software development

Best Practices to Use Software Development Outsourcing Services Effectively

Software development is the best way to promote your business. But, finding skilled software developers has been a challenge for the organization.

If you are an organization that is facing the same challenge, then we have got you covered. By using software development outsourcing services, companies can bridge the skill gaps found in the software development team.

Now, let’s get straight to the point and understand the best practices to Use Software development outsourcing efficiently.

Software Outsourcing: 5 Best Practices for Effective Use

Formulate your Needs, Goals & Requirements

While hiring an Outsourcing Software Development Company, you need to formulate a clear set of needs, goals, and requirements. By doing this, you will be able to find the right partner to ensure a successful project deliverable.

Before looking for an outsourcing company, make sure you think about what you want from them. You might need a company to do software requirements analysis, design, architecture, process improvement, or testing.

It is necessary to have a clear vision of the development progress to ensure hassle-free project management.

Choose a Suitable Software Development Outsourcing Model

There are three software development outsourcing models, described below:

Location-based models

Relationship-based models

Contract-based models

Each of the above models has its advantages & disadvantages. You should choose the best fit based on your requirements.

Choosing the Outsourcing location

While opting for Software Development Outsourcing Services, choosing the right locations becomes essential. Your organization needs to analyze various factors like talent pool, language barriers, cultural differences & cost. While outsourcing it is important to find a software development partner that aligns with your culture.

The company that aligns with you can help you achieve a successful project execution. If your goal is to expand your team strength hiring remote developers is the way to go. If your goal is to save money, looking for the costs charged across the globe will be helpful.

Choose the right outsourcing service provider.

Not every software development outsourcing provider is the right fit. It is always difficult to choose the right service provider. There are a few factors each organization needs to focus on before hiring an outsourcing software development company.

Some of the factors are as under:

Experience of the company

The size of the company, etc.

You also need to analyze the track record and expertise they hold in your industry. It requires them to build trust to sign the software outsourcing agreement.

Establishing communication & Define the duration

Any company that wants to achieve a successful outsourcing partnership, needs to communicate a few concerns thoroughly. The organization needs to communicate the project timelines to ensure both parties are on the same page.

Defining the parameters thoroughly will help the parties to achieve project completion without any misunderstandings.

Closing Notes

AI-Augmentation has been a boon to developers, as it has successfully reduced the workload borne by them.

By integrating AI with software development, companies can achieve project excellence easily. This integration has also helped the companies save a lot of their time.

There resides a lot of scope for growth if the organizations are successful in adapting the benefits efficiently.

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Madeline Ashby’s ‘Glass Houses’

I'm coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!" at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).

Glass Houses – published today by Tor Books – is Madeline Ashby's terrifying technothriller: it's an internet-of-things haunted house story that perfectly captures (and skewers) toxic tech culture while also running a savage whodunnit plot that'll keep you guessing to the end:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765382924/glasshouses

Kristen is the "Chief Emotional Manager" for Wuv, a hot startup that has defined the new field of "affective computing," which is when a computer tells you what everyone else around you is really feeling, based on the unsuppressible tells emitted by their bodies, voices and gadgets.

"Chief Emotional Manager" is just a cutesy tech euphemism for "chief of staff." The only person whose emotions Kristen really manages is Sumter William, the boyish billionaire CEO and founder of Wuv. Sumter hired Kirsten because they share a key developmental trait: both were orphaned at an early age and had to raise themselves in a media spotlight.

Both Sumter and Kristen had been in the spotlight even before their parents' death, though. Sumter was the focus of the intense attention that the children of celebrity billionaires always come in for. Kristen, though, was thrust into the spotlight by her parents: her prepper cryptocurrency hustling father, and her tradwife mother, whose livestreams of Kristen's childhoods involved letting the audience vote everything from whether she'd get dessert after dinner to whether her mother should give her bangs.

Kristen's parents died the most Extremely Online death imaginable: a cryptocurrency price-spike sent her father's mining rigs into overdrive, and when they burst into flame, the IoT house system failed to alert him until it was too late. The fire left Kristen both alone and horribly burned, with scars over much of her body.

Managing Sumter through Wuv's tumultuous launch is hard work for Kristen, but at last, it's paid off. The company has been acquired, making Kristen – and all her coworkers on the founding core team – into instant millionaires. They're flying to a lavish celebration in an autonomous plane that Sumter chartered when the action begins: the plane has a malfunction and crashes into a desert island, killing all but ten of the Wuvvies.

As the survivors explore the island, they discover only one sign of human habitation: a huge, brutalist, featureless black glass house, which initially rebuffs all their efforts to enter it. But once they gain entry, they discover that the house is even harder to leave.

This is the setup for a haunted house story where the house seems to be an unknown billionaire prepper's IoT house of horrors. As the survivors of the crash suffer horrible injuries and deaths on the island, the remaining Wuvvies bolt themselves inside, setting up a locked-room whodunnit that runs in parallel.

This is a fantastic dramatic engine for Ashby's specialty: extremely pointed techno-criticism. The ensuing chapters, which flip back and forth between the story of Wuv's rise and rise to a top tech company, and the company's surviving staff being terrorized on a paradisaical tropical aisle, flesh out Ashby's speculation and the critique it embodies.

For example, there's the political culture of Ashby's future America. Wuv are a Canadian company, headquartered in Toronto, and we gradually come to understand that Canada is the beneficiary of an exodus of tech companies from the US following a kind of soft Christian Dominionist takeover (Kristen and Sumter often have to wrangle rules about whether women are allowed to enter the USA in the company of men they aren't married to and who aren't their brothers or fathers).

The flashbacks to this America are beautifully and subtly drawn, especially the scenes in Vegas, which manages to still be Vegas, even amidst a kind national, legally mandated Handmaid's Tale LARP. Ashby uses her futuristic speculation to illuminate the present, that standing wave where the past is becoming the future. Like everything in the shadows of a haunted house tale, this stuff will make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end.

I'm a big Madeline Ashby fan. I have the honor of having published her first story, when I was co-editing one of the Tesseracts anthologies of Canadian SF. I've read and really enjoyed every one of her books, but this one feels like a step-change in Ashby's career, a leveling up to something even more haunting and brilliant than her impressive back-catalog.

Madeline and I will be live at Chevalier's Books in LA on Aug 16 as part of her Glass Houses tour:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-madeline-ashbys-glass-houses-tickets-965286486867

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/13/influencers/#affective-computing

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Getting Started: AI-Augmented Software Outsourcing Company

Introduction AI has been the talk of the town for quite a long now, & there is a lot of news about its widespread. AI-augmented Software Development is a process of developing more reliable, effective, and cost-effective software. As a result, organizations should hire a reliable Software Outsourcing Company to execute the strategy effectively. What is AI-Augmented Software Development? AI has…

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Researchers in the emerging field of spatial computing have developed a prototype augmented reality headset that uses holographic imaging to overlay full-color, 3D moving images on the lenses of what would appear to be an ordinary pair of glasses. Unlike the bulky headsets of present-day augmented reality systems, the new approach delivers a visually satisfying 3D viewing experience in a compact, comfortable, and attractive form factor suitable for all-day wear. “Our headset appears to the outside world just like an everyday pair of glasses, but what the wearer sees through the lenses is an enriched world overlaid with vibrant, full-color 3D computed imagery,” said Gordon Wetzstein, an associate professor of electrical engineering and an expert in the fast-emerging field of spatial computing. Wetzstein and a team of engineers introduce their device in a new paper in the journal Nature.

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