Decades ago, we abandoned the practice of measuring developers for the number of lines of code they developed. We realized it was too easy to game the system by writing bloated code that reduced value rather than increased it. The best developers, who made code smaller, faster, and easier to maintain, were penalized, because they … continue reading
OpenClaw is an AI agent designed to act like a personal assistant, managing your email, calendar, social media accounts, and more, all from a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. While it has amassed a great deal of popularity — at the time of this writing it has over 180,000 stars on GitHub — many … continue reading
Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) provider Planview today announced the launch of its Connected Work Graph, which provides software development leaders with insights into how work connects across OKRs, initiatives, teams, and resources so they can make better decisions and remove bottlenecks. “This isn’t just another dashboard, it’s an active participant in your strategic execution that … continue reading
Over the past year, I’ve watched teams roll out increasingly capable AI systems, tooling, and agents, and then struggle to trust, adopt, or scale them. I’d argue that a lot of today’s AI adoption problem starts with how we are framing the shift. “Human-in-the-loop” (often shortened to HITL) has become one of today’s most overhyped … continue reading
Too often, software engineering organizations evolve reactively and are shaped by precedent or internal politics in a volatile and rapidly changing business environment, hindering intentional design. To deliver real business value, software engineering leaders should proactively optimize their organizational structures and delivery models to achieve both digital optimization and digital transformation. Evaluate Alternatives to Design … continue reading
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest version of the company’s most powerful class of AI models. Anthropic says that this release improves on Opus’ coding skills, and it now plans more carefully, sustains agent tasks for longer, can run more reliably in larger codebases, and has better code review and … continue reading
CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), The Essential Cloud for AI™, today announced CoreWeave ARENA (AI-Ready Native Applications), designed to help teams test workloads on purpose-built AI infrastructure and software that mirrors how AI actually runs in high-demand production settings. Replacing traditional sandbox or demo setups, the industry-leading CoreWeave ARENA pairs production-scale compute with a standardized evaluation … continue reading
Google is attempting to make it easier for developers to access its documentation by creating the Developer Knowledge API and corresponding MCP server, both now in public preview. The Developer Knowledge API allows developers to search and retrieve documentation for Google’s services in Markdown. This includes documentation from firebase.google.com, developer.android.com, docs.cloud.google.com, and more. The two … continue reading
Apple is enabling agentic coding within Xcode in the latest version of the development platform (version 26.3). Developers will now be able to use Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex directly in Xcode. “With seamless access to Claude Agent and Codex, developers can bring the advanced reasoning of these models directly into their app-building workflow. … continue reading
Chaos engineering, the practice of proactively injecting failure to test system resilience, has evolved. For enterprises today, the focus has shifted from chaos to reliability testing at scale. “Chaos testing, chaos engineering is a little bit of misnomer,” Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin, told SD Times about the term with which he launched … continue reading
Opsera is releasing several new agents as a part of its Agentic DevOps offering that proactively manage DevOps workflows in an attempt to address some of the bottlenecks introduced by AI-assisted coding. According to a recent report from the company, AI-assisted coding can speed up metrics like Time-to-Pull Request or test pass rate, but it … continue reading
Snowflake and OpenAI announce $200 million partnership The two companies will work on building customized AI solutions for their joint customers. Additionally, OpenAI’s models will be natively available on Snowflake Cortex AI across the three major cloud providers, and will also be accessible through Snowflake Intelligence. “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables … continue reading
