Ars Technica

"Don't ever use recursion in production code"

At a job interview on Friday, I had to write code, and one of the things that came up when we were talking about implementation of a concept was recursion. The director of the group said to me "Don't ...

New MIT and Sakana AI framework uses an LLM judge to cut evaluation costs for self-improving coding agents

MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework reduces coding agent evaluation costs by using a language model to rank candidates, ...
thenextweb.com

Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

Anthropic reveals that Claude now writes over 80% of its production code, with engineers shipping 8x more code per quarter than in 2024. The company’s new Anthropic Institute paper maps the path to ...
Crypto Briefing

MIT and Sakana AI’s SIFT framework cuts the cost of judging self-improving coding agents

MIT and Sakana AI's SIFT framework hit 35.1% on Polyglot in 30 steps and ran a full search for about $34, roughly one-tenth ...
TechRepublic

Using recursion in stored procedures

The basic concept of recursion is straightforward: a given chunk of code calls itself until some boundary condition is reached. Arthur Fuller demonstrates how to use recursion in T-SQL. TechRepublic’s ...
dbta.com

An Introduction to Recursive SQL

If you are a SQL programmer, learning recursive SQL techniques can be a boon to your productivity. A recursive query is one that refers to itself. I think the best way to quickly grasp the concept of ...
Ars Technica

"Don't ever use recursion in production code"

I have seen recursion code implode on itself on the JVM before. In this case, we caught the annoying stack overflow problem before it went into production and I had to work a good number of hours in ...