Vibe Loop: AI-native reliability engineering for the real world

I’ve been on-call during outages that ruined weekends, sat through postmortems that felt like therapy, and seen cases where a single log line would have saved six hours of debugging. These experiences are not edge cases; they’re the norm in modern production systems. We’ve come a long way since Google’s Site Reliability Engineering book reframed …

Docker Compose gets new features for building and running agents

Docker has updated Compose with new features that will make it easier for developers to build, ship, and run AI agents.  Developers can define open models, agents, and MCP-compatible tools in a compose.yaml file and then spin up an agentic stack with a single command: docker compose up. Compose integrates with several agentic frameworks, including …

Report: AI coding productivity gains cancelled out by other friction points that slow developers down

AI adoption is saving developers a significant amount of time, but several friction points still exist throughout the software development life cycle that developers are still losing time to. According to Atlassian’s 2025 State of Developer Experience report, 99% of developers are saving time by using AI, and 68% save at least 10 hours a …

Coder reimagines development environments to make them more ideal for AI agents

Coder is announcing the launch of its AI cloud development environments (CDEs), bringing together IDEs, dynamic policy governance, and agent orchestration into a single platform.  According to Coder, current development infrastructure was built for humans, not agents, and agents have different requirements to be successful. “Agents need secure environments, granular permissions, fast boot times, and …

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Newest LF Decentralized Trust Lab HOPrS identifies if photos have been altered

OpenOrigins has announced that its Human-Oriented Proof System (HOPrS) has been accepted by the Linux Foundation’s Decentralized Trust as a new Lab. HOPrS is an open-source framework that can be used to figure out if an image has been altered. “If we’re doing things like rotating images, or cropping them, or changing the saturation, turning …

Sonatype Open Source Malware Index, Gemini API Batch Mode, and more – Daily News Digest

Sonatype finds 188% increase in open source malware since last year The company published its Open Source Malware Index for Q2 2025, finding 16,279 new malicious open source packages. Compared to the same quarter last year, there was a 188% increase in the number of malicious packages discovered.  4,400 of the packages were designed to …

Anthropic proposes transparency framework for frontier AI development

Anthropic is calling for the creation of an AI transparency framework that can be applied to large AI developers to ensure accountability and safety.  “As models advance, we have an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate scientific discovery, healthcare, and economic growth. Without safe and responsible development, a single catastrophic failure could halt progress for decades. Our …

Last week in AI dev tools: Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers by default, Perplexity Max subscription, and more (July 7, 2025)

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on.  The company explained that by switching to …

Avoid these common platform engineering mistakes

In the grand scheme of software development, platform engineering is a relatively new discipline. As such, platform engineering teams are still figuring out best practices and messing up along the way. In a talk at PlatformCon 2025 last week, Camille Fournier, CTO of Open Athena and co-author (alongside Ian Nowland) of the book “Platform Engineering: …

Mirantis reveals Lens Prism, an AI copilot for operating Kubernetes clusters

Mirantis is introducing an AI-powered copilot into its Kubernetes IDE Lens. With Lens Prism, developers will be able to use natural language to troubleshoot and operate their Kubernetes clusters. Developers can ask questions like “What’s wrong with my pod?”, “How much CPU is this namespace using?” or “Is anything failing in my cluster?” Lens Prism …

The impact of gray work on software development

Software development teams have been on a journey over the last several years to improve productivity. Whether that’s by cutting down on the time spent coding by introducing AI-powered coding assistants or implementing collaboration tools, it’s clear that teams are on a mission to be more productive. However, that drive for productivity may actually be …

The AI productivity paradox in software engineering: Balancing efficiency and human skill retention

Generative AI is transforming software development at an unprecedented pace. From code generation to test automation, the promise of faster delivery and reduced costs has captivated organizations. However, this rapid integration introduces new complexities. Reports increasingly show that while task-level productivity may improve, systemic performance often suffers. This article synthesizes perspectives from cognitive science, software …

CompTIA State of the Tech Workforce 2025 released, Meta joins Kotlin Foundation, Percona launches Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL – Daily News Digest

CompTIA has released its State of the Tech Workforce 2025, which shows tech employment metrics at the nation, state, and metropolitan level.  It found that despite economic uncertainty, the tech workforce in the US grew 1.2% in 2024, reaching 5.9 million. This sector of the workforce is projected to grow to 6.1 million in 2025.  …

Hallucinated code, real threat: How slopsquatting targets AI-assisted development

AI coding assistants like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have become a staple in the developer’s toolkit. They help dev teams move faster, automate boilerplates, and troubleshoot issues on the fly. But there’s a catch. These tools don’t always know what they’re talking about. Like other LLM applications, coding assistants sometimes hallucinate – confidently recommending software …

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The Value-Driven AI Roadmap: A CIO’s Blueprint for Success

Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …

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Struggling to get full value from your ITSM? You’re not alone. Many enterprises face the same uphill service management climb: too many tickets, unnecessary escalations, and manual incident workflows that impede rapid resolution. L1s are overwhelmed, L2 escalation teams are bogged down in root cause investigations, and scaling with business with incident response automation feels …

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As AI-powered coding assistants become more prevalent, developers are increasingly incorporating AI-generated code snippets into their projects… But how reliable and secure is it? The last Dora report made it clear: there is a 7.2% drop in delivery stability for every 25% increase in AI use! In this webinar, we’ll explore the risks AI-generated code …

Cut Costs, Not Insights: A Practical Guide to Telemetry Data Optimization

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    The Value-Driven AI Roadmap: A CIO’s Blueprint for Success

    Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …

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    SD Times Live! Microwebinar Series — with Accusoft

    Accusoft’s PrizmDoc is transforming document management with a unified, AI-driven approach. In this microwebinar series, Product Director Dan Lee shows how PrizmDoc’s auto-summarization, auto-tagging & classification, document Q&A, and PII detection & redaction tools eliminate manual effort, surface key insights instantly, and safeguard sensitive data – all while fitting seamlessly into your existing workflows. Discover …

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    Better Together: Supercharge Your ServiceNow Investment with AIOps

    Struggling to get full value from your ITSM? You’re not alone. Many enterprises face the same uphill service management climb: too many tickets, unnecessary escalations, and manual incident workflows that impede rapid resolution. L1s are overwhelmed, L2 escalation teams are bogged down in root cause investigations, and scaling with business with incident response automation feels …

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    Trust but Verify? The Risks Lurking in AI-Generated Code

    As AI-powered coding assistants become more prevalent, developers are increasingly incorporating AI-generated code snippets into their projects… But how reliable and secure is it? The last Dora report made it clear: there is a 7.2% drop in delivery stability for every 25% increase in AI use! In this webinar, we’ll explore the risks AI-generated code …

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    Cut Costs, Not Insights: A Practical Guide to Telemetry Data Optimization

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    Reduce Risk, Accelerate Innovation: ASPM for Modern Open Source

    Open source drives innovation, but unchecked it can increase risk. This webinar explores how Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) can help you harness the power of open source while mitigating vulnerabilities.   Discover how ActiveState’s comprehensive platform, expert guidance, and commitment to community leadership can help you in a multitude of ways. …

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