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New official CircleCI Visual Studio Code Extension

We are very proud to release our new VS Code Extension, the official CircleCI VS Code Extension

Discover the Developer Experience team with Alexandre Savigny

Alexandre Savigny, Product Marketing Manager in the Developer Experience team gives you a few insights on life in the team

AI Meetup Paris: Recommendation Engines

Discover the Developer Experience team with Baptiste Bouffaut

Baptiste Bouffaut, Software Engineering Manager in the Developer Experience team gives you a few insights on life in this unique team at the forefront of CircleCI innovation strategy.

AI on Code: What's New in 2022?

We keep a close eye on AI trends and evolutions as part of our work on AI applied to code, find out about our latest 2022 discoveries!

CircleCI acquires Ponicode

On March 9th 2022 CircleCI, the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery startup, officially announced its acquisition of Ponicode.

CircleCI completes acquisition of Ponicode

It’s a special day today as we are officially announcing that Ponicode has been acquired by CircleCI.

10 NPM packages to accelerate your code journey in 2022

We are coming back with our series about the best productivity tools for developers! You know the Ponicode philosophy, it’s all about boosting developers' lives...

9 Best IntelliJ plugins for developers

Discover the incredible JetBrains ecosystem with the team’s selection of plugins for IntelliJ designed to make your coding experience better, faster and a whole lot smarter.

6 game changing AI-on-code papers published in 2021 that you should now about

Discover our selection papers that we think are the most impactful in our field and who consequently will shape the software industry for the coming year(s).

2021 Wrap Up: Major trends in Software Development

2021 is nearly over and we couldn't enter the new year before sharing our top 5 trends which have branded 2021 in software development.

AI Meetup Paris: Boosting NLP Models Performance

A quick recap of the AI Meetup Paris December edition with our guests about boosting NLP models performance.

Best Github Actions to boost your CI/CD pipeline in 2022

Let’s review the GitHub Actions that can make a difference and will enable you to deploy faster and more securely every single time

Hiring at CircleCI France: Behind The Scenes

We all know it might get a bit intimidating and confusing to apply to a new job. We want you to be comfortable so we put everything on "paper"!

AI Meetup Paris: Transformers, Architecture & Models

Have a glance of the AI Meetup discussions with the latest edition dealing with Transformers, revolutionary models in machine learning.

We went to South Summit!

Enormous achievement for the whole team to be selected among incredible stakeholders to take part in the South Summit 2021 gathering 100 brilliant startups around the world!

In the end... What are data scientists made of?

The Ponicode team is a melting pot bringing together people from different backgrounds and experiences to build innovative solutions and what is the secret of this innovation?

Best Python extensions for VS Code in 2021

Welcome to Ponicode’s selection of the top 10 most useful extensions for Python developers on VS Code. With the following tools you are going to be able to accelerate your development cycle tenfold.

50 Reasons Why You Should Join Ponicode

Why should you join our unicorn? Our team put their minds to it and gathered their favourite reasons why they're working all together. No more excuse now!

Best of Coding Tools

Looking for your next tool that will send you to the next coding level? You'll probably find it here! Fun stuff in bonus as usual 😉

Product Update - Unit testing 4 key functions

Let's explore in this 3 minutes video the recent improvements of our AI by opening the Ponicode interface on 4 functions. More scenarios handled with more granularity than ever...

Celebrating our 2 years anniversary

Since we celebrated Ponicode’s 2 years anniversary over the summer we reflected on the team growth and how we tried to also innovate when it comes to team collaboration and talent management...

How can corporations accelerate innovation thanks to a startup-friendly approach?

How can European business leaders shift to an innovation-centered mindset and put words of support for the startup ecosystem into action?

The 2021 Summer Update

Product releases, feature releases, new business offers and digital events we rushed through the 4 seasons to get as much done as possible to empower our community on its code quality journey...

10 Questions with Patrick Joubert

After reaching two major milestones at Ponicode; 10k users and our 2 year anniversary, we sat down with Patrick, CEO, to discuss just how far we've come and the undeniable need for tools like ours.

Top 10 TypeScript Extensions for VS Code

We’re back with another Top 10 list for you, and this time it’s a list of must-have extensions for all of our TypeScript developers out there. Again, all from our favourite IDE; VS Code

Code Security & Code Quality with Ponicode

Today we are going to talk with Baptiste Bouffaut about how Ponicode reconciles code quality with code security as well as our ambition to make beautiful code accessible to everyone.

AI-powered developers tools you must know about in 2021

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

Software will save the European economy

Published originally in Les Echos, Patrick Joubert discusses the ever increasing need for Europe to improve their digital know-how if they wish to compete with US and Asian software giants.

AI and Voice Recognition: Trends to Follow Closely

Baptiste Bouffaut, CTO of Ponicode, shares his vision on the use of NLP at scale after detailing what it does and how it can impact businesses.

Feature Release - Ponicode Flash Test

Ponicode Flash Test. A new feature of our VS Code Extension dedicated to getting software engineers closer to one click unit test file generation through the power of AI and automation.

Best VS Code Extensions

Our pick of handy VS Code extensions that every developer needs to try!

When should Data Scientists unit test?

Follow us on his recap of the different stages of building a model and quick introduction to where code testing can fit.

Code Quality for Data Science explained

Ahmed Achchak from Natixis is taking over our blog to introduce some key elements through this short video to help us understand where code quality fits into the data science spectrum.

How can AI be used to improve code quality?

Yann Gourvennec, CEO and Founder of Visionary Marketing discussed with the Ponicode team on his podcast how artificial intelligence can be used to improve code quality...

Meet Dorra, Computer Fan

"As a child, I used to take machine to pieces and put them all back together. That's how I got into computer science."

Software Failures in Recent History… like, actually recent history

To celebrate Bug Week, we thought we would take a look back at some of the more recent bug disasters that we’ve come across

Meet Marie, From Software Engineer In India To Building A Company In France

"The job is literally about solving problems while being the most efficient as possible. It's kind of a competition against yourself."

Meet Morgane, Software Engineer at Alan

"If I hadn't taken that class, I would never have discovered computer science."

Meet Jade, Software Engineer at Doctolib

"Don't let fear, doubt or uncertainty hold you back."

Meet Yu Ling — From Building A Company To Tech Lead

"Web development has more potential to appeal to younger generations now."

Women Can Change Career and Work In Tech

"Gender equality in an omnipresent industry such as technology, is paramount."

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:

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!

10 awesome VS Code extensions 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

Ponicode Asserts Its Ambition For 2021

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

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.

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.

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.

Building a Startup

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

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.

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. ‍

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

Top 5 Tools for Data Scientists

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

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.

Code2Vec

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

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.

The Code Quality Roundtable

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, his view on the tech team and CircleCI France’s hiring policy

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

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.

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

Patrick Joubert, former CEO of Ponicode, was invited by Microsoft to share his multi-entrepreneur experience of how to build great partnerships for startups.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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