Enterprises are making faster progress with agentic AI than many expected, not because the tooling is mature, but because companies have realized they can’t afford to wait. The leading 10 to 20% of organizations are racing ahead, standing up internal “agent platforms” that handle planning, tool selection, long running memory, workflow coordination, and human in … continue reading
Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms—the same skill should work whether you’re using Claude or other AI platforms,” the … continue reading
AI workslop is any AI-generated work that masquerades as professional output but lacks substance to advance any task meaningfully. If you’ve received a report that took you three reads to realize it said nothing, an email that used three paragraphs where one sentence would do, or a presentation with visually stunning slides containing zero actionable … continue reading
As 2025 comes to a close, SD Times is looking back at the top software development news stories of the year across the industry. Here are 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year: Linux Foundation forms Agentic AI Foundation to be new home for MCP, goose, and … continue reading
I’ve been teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design for 18 years. This semester, for the first time, students lined up after my opening lecture, asking the same question: “What’s the role of AI in the design field? How do I prepare for this?” Their concerns mirror what I’m hearing from senior UX leaders … continue reading
Articles about AI dominated media coverage in 2025, as the ability to perform more than just rudimentary tasks grew into making software development life cycle processes autonomous. The widespread piloting and implementation of generative AI, agents and MCP servers were among the topics that produced the top trending articles on sdtimes.com this year. But AI … continue reading
Flaky tests have long been a source of wasted engineering time for mobile development teams, but recent data shows they are becoming something more serious: a growing drag on delivery speed. As AI-driven code generation accelerates and pipelines absorb far greater volumes of output, test instability is no longer an occasional nuisance. This constant rise … continue reading
Patronus AI has announced Generative Simulators, which are simulation environments that can create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world over time, and evaluate an agent’s actions as it learns. According to the company, as AI systems move from answering single questions to executing multi-step workflows, the static tests and training data … continue reading
As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in AI in 2026. Ariel Katz, CEO of Sisense From agent hype to outcome accountability 2025 was the year agents exploded; 2026 is the year enterprises demand proof they actually work. After … continue reading
Due to time-to-market pressure and resource constraints, mobile app developers are shipping code that’s under-tested and under-protected. A recent Checkmarx report shows that the vast majority (81%) of organizations admit to knowingly shipping vulnerable code either sometimes or often. Maybe they know they have a problem and plan to fix it downstream. Or maybe they’re … continue reading
Anthropic makes Skills an open standard Skills—a capability that allows users to teach Claude repeatable workflows—was first introduced in October, and now the company is making it an open standard. “Like MCP, we believe skills should be portable across tools and platforms—the same skill should work whether you’re using Claude or other AI platforms,” the … continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — InstallAware Software, the technology leader in software installation, repackaging, and virtualization solutions for app developers and enterprises, has launched InstallAware X18. InstallAware is the most flexible platform for traditional and agile development teams creating Linux, macOS, Windows and Azure software installers; as well as MSIX, APPX, App-V Virtualization, and agentless/royalty-free InstallAware Virtualization … continue reading
