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 … continue reading

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.  … continue reading

Gartner: More than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled in the next few years

Gartner recently revealed a new report where it predicted that by the end of 2027, over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled. Factors contributing to this decline include escalating costs, unclear business value, and inadequate risk controls. According to the analyst firm, one trend it is seeing is that vendors are hyping up … continue reading

Building a culture that will drive platform engineering success

Platform engineering can be a valuable asset to an organization, but there are a number of strategies teams need to implement in order to drive success.  In a talk at PlatformCon 2025 in NYC last week, Preeti Somal, senior VP of engineering at Temporal, gave a talk about the human side of platform engineering. She … continue reading

June 2025: All AI updates from the past month

Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading

This week in AI dev tools: A2A donated to Linux Foundation, OpenAI adds Deep Research to API, and more (June 27, 2025)

Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which … continue reading

Jakarta EE 11 Platform launches with modernized Test Compatibility Kit framework

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of Jakarta EE 11 Platform, which builds on the releases of the Core Profile in December 2024 and Web Profile in March.  This update adds significant enhancements, including a modernized Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) framework, updates to several specifications, and a new data specification. According to Tanja Obradovic, … continue reading

Warp 2.0 evolves terminal experience into an Agentic Development Environment

Warp is undergoing a significant transformation with its 2.0 launch, shifting from its origins as a terminal emulator with AI integrations into an Agentic Development Environment (ADE).  “The products on the market today, from AI IDEs to CLI coding agents, all miss the mark supporting this workflow. They bolt agents onto code editors through chat … continue reading

Overture Maps launches GERS, a system of unique IDs for global geospatial entities

The Overture Maps Foundation today announced the launch of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS), which assigns a unique ID to geospatial entities, including 2.6 billion buildings, 61 million places, 321 million road segments, and almost 447 million addresses.  The system will allow developers to more easily join datasets, share information, and onboard new data, … continue reading

Agent Mode for Gemini added to Android Studio

The Android development team has announced the addition of Agent Mode for Gemini in Android Studio.  With Agent Mode, a developer can describe a complex goal, then the agent will come up with an execution plan and then complete the tasks.  Examples of tasks Agent Mode can tackle include building a project and fixing errors, … continue reading

Google’s Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation

At the Open Source Summit North America, it was announced that Google donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation. The A2A protocol offers a standard way for connecting agents to each other. In this way, it complements Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides a way to connect agents to different data sources … continue reading

This week in AI dev tools: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash GA, GitHub Copilot Spaces, and more (June 20, 2025)

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash are generally available and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in preview According to Google, no changes have been made to Pro and Flash since the last preview, except for the pricing for Flash is different. When these models were first announced, there was separate thinking and non-thinking pricing, but Google said that … continue reading

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