Welcome to Ponicode's World

How to write good quality code with a big fat smile on your face?  How to start and grow a successful tech start up with your IDE?  How to rap without writing a single line of lyrics?

Ponicode’s World makes the word “impossible” rhyme with “possible”. Forget what “bug” means and love your keyboard no matter what.And this is where the magic begins…

We love programming
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Baptiste Bouffaut
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March 2, 2021

The future of code; an ever-changing story

Baptiste Bouffaut, our CTO here at Ponicode, recently joined us for a chat about programming languages and what we can expect them to look like in the future. Here are the main areas we covered:

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Code Quality
We love programming
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Ponicode
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March 1, 2021

9 questions about unit testing answered

9 questions about unit testing answered quickly to cover the basics and get you started with your testing journey. A beginners guide to unit testing, summed up in this easily digested piece.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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February 10, 2021

Ponicode Unit Test Live on Product Hunt

After several months of challenges and hard work, we are launching Ponicode Unit Test on Product Hunt to show the world how easy our little unicorn makes your daily coding life!

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We love programming
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Ponicode
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February 10, 2021

10 (+1) VS Code Products that will Rock your World

Here at Ponicode we love a great tool that we can easily implement in our daily lives. We also love VS Code. So, today we are doing a quick run through some of our favourite VS Code products that we

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Artificial Intelligence
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Hamza Sayah
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February 5, 2021

What are the AI trends that Ponicode is following in 2021 and beyond?

Hamza Sayah, Data Scientist at Ponicode, shares a quick overview of where we are at when it comes to AI innovation. He will introduce us to the key innovations driving Ponicode product development as

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Press Releases
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Ponicode
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January 25, 2021

Ponicode Asserts Its Ambition For 2021

Time to take a step back to consider 2020 achievements to look forward 2021.

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Artificial Intelligence
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Ponicode
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January 21, 2021

How do you shift your data project from Prototyping to Production successfully?

An interview with one of Ponicode’s expert Data Scientists, Walid Benbihi, about the key issues in the design and creation of new data models that any industry faces.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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January 14, 2021

Co-responsibility a Key Pillar in the Ponicode Mindset 

Throwback to Ponicode Seminar in August 2020, when a new value emerged from the startup's culture.

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Artificial Intelligence
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Ponicode
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January 10, 2021

Natural Language Processing: Key Concepts Explained - Throwback GitHub Universe 2020

Throwback to GitHub Universe 2020 with this amazing talk by Benedetta and Hamza from the Ponicode Team who walk us through the basic NLP concepts.

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Press Releases
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Ponicode
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January 6, 2021

Qwasar - Partnership for Education

We are proud to celebrate our partnership with Qwasar. The number one Tech Software Engineering study solution

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 14, 2020

Step into Ponicode's hooves - Developer

There was no better way to understand what being in the tech team at Ponicode really means than asking them directly about their everyday life at Ponicode.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 11, 2020

A day in the life of Ponicode - Data Scientist

There was no better way to understand what being in the tech team at Ponicode really means than asking our data scientist directly about their everyday life at Ponicode. in order.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 11, 2020

Building a Startup

Find out more about how Patrick Joubert envisions the startup adventure and get inspired to start on your own entrepreneurial journey.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 11, 2020

The Diversity Challenge

Discover in this video how Baptiste Bouffaut tackles the challenge of bringing diversity to the team and turning it into Ponicode’s biggest strength.

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Open Source AI
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Ponicode
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December 10, 2020

Top 5 Tools for Data Scientists

Our Data Science team shares with you their tool box with the best AI tools for Data Scientists.

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Open Source AI
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Ponicode
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December 10, 2020

Ponicode & GitHub Action

Ponicode joins the biggest Developer Community platform with two very unique GitHub Actions.

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Open Source AI
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Ponicode
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December 10, 2020

Meet the open source community: Scikit Learn - Joel

An exclusive interview with one of the maintainers of the reference library in the Machine Learning world who shares the ins and outs of his work. Guest speaker Joel Nothman. ‍

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Open Source AI
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Ponicode
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December 10, 2020

Meet the open source community: Scikit Learn - Thomas

An exclusive interview with one of the maintainers of the reference library in the machine learning world sharing the ins and outs of his work. Guest speaker Thomas J. Fan

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Open Source AI
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Ponicode
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December 10, 2020

Meet the Open Source Community: Bounty Source

An interview of the COO of a Bounty Based Open Source code fixing community.

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Code Quality
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Ponicode
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December 9, 2020

The Code Quality Roundtable

A roundtable with Strapi, GitGuardian, WeLoop and The Chatbot Factory to talk about their code quality strategy.

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Code Quality
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Ponicode
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December 9, 2020

Meet Christophe Shaw: Ponicode Chief Revenue Officer

Christophe Shaw takes a few minutes to share his vision on what code quality is all about and why joining the Ponicode startup adventure just makes sense.

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Code Quality
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Ponicode
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December 9, 2020

Take your code to the next level with Ponicode.

Walid Benbihi is taking over our channel for this demo of the advanced features of Ponicode for VS Code and shares a few words about code quality strategy.

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Code Quality
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Ponicode
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December 9, 2020

Code Quality for Data Scientists

The Scikit Learn team joins us on stage to share a few words on how code quality is a critical topic to the machine learning industry.

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Code Quality
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Ponicode
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December 9, 2020

Code Quality at Babylon JS by Microsoft

David Catuhe from the Babylon JS team shares a few words about the code quality strategy of one of the most popular open source projects at Microsoft.‍

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Code Quality
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Ponicode
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December 9, 2020

Code Quality for the Next Generation by 42

Olivier Crouzet, Head of Pedagogy at 42, shares 42’s angle on code quality. Find out how the most celebrated Software Engineering university teaches the new generation about code quality.

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Reading List
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Gaspard Vingtrinier
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December 9, 2020

Code2Vec

How to effectively embed a code snippet to predict a function name

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Reading List
Startup World
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Patrick Joubert
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December 9, 2020

Building Your Ecosystem Should Be an Entrepreneurs’ Top Priority

The success of a startup also depends on its ability to build a solid and relevant ecosystem around itself. It is time to promote leadership for and by the ecosystem.

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Code Security
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Ponicode
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December 8, 2020

DevSecOps is the new DevOps

Ponicode’s CPO Paolo Zannier will talk you through an overview of the best practices to turn your DevOps processes into DevSecOps.

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Code Security
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Ponicode
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December 8, 2020

Ponicode features with Walid Benbihi

Discover Ponicode’ benefits to automate unit tests’ production and auto-generate documentation for Project Managers and Lead Developers with Walid Benbihi.

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Code Security
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Ponicode
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December 8, 2020

Leaked secrets in source code: Securing your repositories

Our speaker guest Mackenzie Jackson from Gitguardian will show how exposed your company could be to security flaws and how quickly malevolent actors try to exploit credentials.

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Code Security
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Ponicode
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December 8, 2020

Code Security with Bounty Source

Soheil, Bounty Source CTO, shares his vision and best practices in Code Security to bear in mind to keep your code safe.

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Reading List
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Aljosha Armitano
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December 8, 2020

How do you onboard newbies onto an existing codebase?

As a team, how can we make new contributors understand and master the codebase faster and better?

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 7, 2020

Ponicode Story by Benedetta Dal Canton

Take a minute to hear the Ponicode journey told by its founders. A video designed to let you meet Benedetta Dal Canton and understand how she embodies the Ponicode DNA in a few words.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 7, 2020

Ponicode Story by Simon Guilliams

Take a minute to hear the Ponicode journey told by its founders. A video designed to let you meet Simon Guilliams and understand how he embodies the Ponicode DNA in a few words.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 3, 2020

Ponicode Story by Edmond Aouad

Take a minute to hear the Ponicode journey told by its founders. A video designed to let you meet Edmond Aouad and understand how he embodies the Ponicode DNA in a few words.

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Startup Journey
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Ponicode
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December 3, 2020

Ponicode Story by Patrick Joubert

Take a minute to hear the Ponicode journey told by its founders. A video designed to let you meet Patrick Joubert and understand how he embodies the Ponicode DNA in a few words.

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Product Update
Press Releases
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Alexandre Savigny
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November 30, 2020

Product Release: Unit Test GitHub Action

We are delighted to share the release of our new GitHub Action: Ponicode Unit Test! Take your unit test strategy to the CI level

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Press Releases
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Ponicode
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November 23, 2020

Christophe Shaw & Paolo Zannier join Ponicode

We are taking our team one step further with the arrival of two new members in key roles to scale our team: Christophe Shaw as CRO and Paolo Zannier as CPO.

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Biographies
Startup World
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Ponicode
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November 17, 2020

They make Ponicode: Baptiste Bouffaut, CTO

We continue our series with one of the early members of the team: Baptiste Bouffaut. We sat with him to talk about his experience of Ponicode, his view on the tech team and Ponicode’s hiring policy

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Product Update
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Ponicode
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November 5, 2020

Ponicode Dogstring: our docstring generation GitHub Action

Today we are on Product Hunt to celebrate the release of our first ever Github Action: Ponicode Dogstring. 🦄 🚀 🌈 🤖

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Biographies
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Ponicode
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October 31, 2020

They make Ponicode: our first intern Elio

Sometimes it feels right to take the time to ask our team members to look back on their Ponicode experience and find out what we did right and what we did wrong. Our commitment to being a great place

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Artificial Intelligence
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Hamza Sayah
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October 21, 2020

Transformers: Beyond the Seventh Art

LSTM have always been the state of the art models used for sequential data such as text, well at least they were, until the transformers - thanks to the BERT revolution - took over.

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Startup World
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Ponicode
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October 13, 2020

How can your startup be nurtured by its partners? Feedback form Patrick Joubert

Patrick Joubert, CEO of Ponicode, was invited by Microsoft to share his multi-entrepreneur experience of how to build great partnerships for startups. This talk was part of B2B Rocks, an Axeleo

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Ponicode's vision
Product Update
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Ponicode
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October 8, 2020

Weloop – User Testimony

We are so happy to share the testimony that Weloop shared with on their use of Ponicode. Tung, co-founder and software engineer at Weloop gave us some details about their code quality standards and

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Product Update
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Ponicode
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October 1, 2020

Ponicode Unit Test for VS Code in 1 minute

Let’s create a dummy store called User Store to act as a database and create a small function that will add a user to the store if the user has the correct format.

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We love programming
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Ponicode
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September 25, 2020

What is mocking?

Are you new to the unit testing world and your colleagues are talking about that strange thing called mocking? This article will get you started. It focuses on Javascript, and uses specifically JEST

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Artificial Intelligence
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Alexandre Savigny
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September 19, 2020

The Ponicode 2020 Artificial Intelligence reading list

We asked our team which book had a significant impact on their Artificial Intelligence journey and the answers we received were surprisingly diverse. You will not only find in our selection some essen

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Artificial Intelligence
We love programming
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Ponicode
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September 10, 2020

6 AI-powered tools to rock your software-development life.

Developers are used to seeing their work environment evolve at a quick pace. Every year brings its lot of new languages, innovative practices and cool tools. More than any other industry, software dev

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Artificial Intelligence
We love programming
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Hamza Sayah
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September 3, 2020

Machine Learning on Source Code

Software has become essential to our lives. Millions of lines of code are being written and executed every day all around the world. The economy in its entirety relies at an increasing rate on IT.

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Ponicode's vision
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Ponicode
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August 28, 2020

Our Q&A about Security at Ponicode with Baptiste Bouffaut

Hello Baptiste. You are CTO of Ponicode, previously VP Engineering at Recast.AI. Today we would like to talk about security with you in order to let our users know more about what’s happening here at

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Product Update
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Ponicode
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August 26, 2020

The 2020 Summer Update

What’s the benefit for you? Your tests are consequently more reader-friendly. Your team can jump into your tests and understand their functional behaviour in seconds. It will also help you identify

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We love programming
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Ponicode
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August 14, 2020

Jest versus Mocha: which testing framework is for you?

We wanted to take the time to review two of the most popular test frameworks for Javascript: Jest and Mocha. If you are new to Javascript testing or if you want to make sure you are using the best

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Artificial Intelligence
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Alexandre Savigny
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August 5, 2020

Top 10 Experiments with GPT-3 – The Ponicode Selection

Open AI blesses us with a new GPT release and we have not been disappointed. After years of development, GPT-3 or generative pre-trained transformer 3 is now available to a selected audience.

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We love programming
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Ponicode
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July 29, 2020

A word about Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development is a coding methodology that consists in starting the development of a feature by writing a unit test for it, and only in a second stage actually coding its implementation.

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Artificial Intelligence
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Ponicode
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July 23, 2020

Booba et Intelligence Artificielle: on vous montre comment nourrir votre algo avec la poésie du Duc de Boulogne

“L’IA est dangereuse”, “Les robots vont conquérir le monde”, “As-tu déjà entendu parler de GPT-2? Trop dangereux pour le grand public” Obi Wan Kenobi t’aura prévenu: “Tu ne peux pas gagner. Si tu me

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Press Releases
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Ponicode
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July 15, 2020

Ponicode raises €3 million in seed funding to continue developing Artificial Intelligence for improved code quality

Ponicode, a French start-up specialising in Artificial Intelligence and data sciences founded in June 2019, has announced a €3 million fundraising led by founder-friendly European VC, Breega, alongsid

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Ponicode's vision
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Ponicode
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June 30, 2020

Ponicode’s Public Beta is LIVE! 🚀🚀🚀

Ponicode’s public beta is LIVE! 🚀 Today, every developer around the world has free access to our beta product: Hello World! 🤖 🦄 Ponicode makes writing unit tests FASTER, EASIER, and

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We love programming
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Simon Guilliams
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June 23, 2020

Arrange Act Assert or Table-Driven Testing?

After sharing our perspective on the “what” and “why” of unit testing in our opening guide, we wanted to move onto the next question of how to concretely write unit tests. There are many libraries

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Ponicode's vision
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Elisa Chen
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June 16, 2020

Developers: 10 Things We Love About You

At Ponicode, we are making a product for developers, by developers. What this means is that we spend a lot of time thinking about them. Whether we’re working with them internally, designing our

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Artificial Intelligence
Ponicode's vision
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Hamza Sayah
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June 11, 2020

Who wrote my unit tests?

A few weeks ago, I decided to introduce the Ponicode tool to a mathematician friend of mine who had a lot of preconceived ideas about how to solve the problem of unit test generation. She was very

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We love programming
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Ponicode
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June 3, 2020

Bugs: the impact of low quality code on innovation and reputation

As digital revolutionises the world, offering buggy applications to consumers is less and less acceptable and less and less tolerated. The megaphone effect of social networks poses a real risk in term

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Press Releases
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Ponicode
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May 28, 2020

Ponicode Joins the Microsoft AI Factory

Paris, May 28, 2020 – Ponicode, a startup created in June 2019 using AI to generate unit tests in a few clicks to facilitate the daily life of developers, joins the Microsoft AI Factory community.

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Artificial Intelligence
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Edmond Aouad
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May 21, 2020

Cover rage, when code quality matters

Today in this blog post, we’re going to talk about a very sensitive subject. Some of you deal with it all day every day. Others have no idea what it is. And then there are even some of you who pretend

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Press Releases
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Ponicode
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May 18, 2020

Baptiste Bouffaut joins Ponicode as CTO

Ponicode, a startup founded in June 2019 with the aim of generating unit tests in a few clicks in order to facilitate developers’ day-to-day tasks, announces the arrival of Baptiste

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Artificial Intelligence
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Edmond Aouad
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May 13, 2020

Our Rap Lyrics Generator for Github Satellite 2020: A brief AI tutorial

AI text generation made easy for anyone “AI is so dangerous!”, “Robots will soon conquer the world!”, “Have you heard about GPT-2? Too dangerous for the public.” Warning: Today I’d like to shock you

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Artificial Intelligence
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Ponicode
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May 11, 2020

Watch the Ponicode AI Rap Battle at Github Satellite 2020!

We built an AI-driven rap generator to go up against a live human rapper at the Ponicode AI Rap battle at Github Satellite on May 6, 2020. Watch the battle here, and scroll down further to see the lyr

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We love programming
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Ponicode
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May 5, 2020

An opening guide to understanding unit testing best practices

Have you heard that you should write unit tests for your code but you're not sure why? Or are you looking for advice on the best practices to follow when testing your application? In this article

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Ponicode's vision
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Edmond Aouad
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May 1, 2020

Why I left my very well paid job to become a Data Entrepreneur

When you have to make a choice between 2 great options: being a Data Scientist or an Entrepreneur … and you choose both! Have you ever had to choose between two options you love and abandon one of

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We love programming
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Simon Guilliams
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April 3, 2020

How to ship APIs faster? Efficiency in the API development process

Writing an API from scratch can be quite fun and informative for developers. Yet, maintaining dozens of APIs in a company is another kettle of fish.

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