Moving into AI-first development is a journey, and we’re all learning together. I want to share some bittersweet lessons from my recent experience that might save you from hitting the same walls I did. The “Secret” Everyone Knows Let’s address the elephant in the room. By now, there are probably a million YouTube videos titled … continue reading
Microsoft announces general availability of Azure DevOps local MCP Server The MCP server acts as an intermediary between AI assistants and the Azure DevOps organization. It can help inject context from Azure DevOps, like work items, pull requests, and test plans. By adding this context to prompts, the LLM can provide more relevant answers that … continue reading
For many years, the DORA metrics were the gold standard when it came to measuring software development performance, but according to JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 report, developers today want to be measured on more than just technical metrics. DORA tracks four metrics: frequency of deployments, amount of time between acceptance and deployment, frequency … continue reading
Oracle has announced the launch of a new marketplace to help customers find and deploy validated AI agents that can be used within Oracle Fusion Applications, its suite of cloud-based modular business applications. The AI Agent Marketplace includes agent templates built by Oracle partners to help with various business processes, including finance, HR, supply chain, … continue reading
Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Haiku 4.5, which provides similar coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4, but is twice as fast and one-third as expensive. This follows the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5 two weeks ago, which Anthropic claimed as “the best coding model in the world” when it was announced. Claude Haiku … continue reading
Twilio today announced new features to help companies create and maintain customer experiences that are based on trusted data. According to Twilio, having access to accurate and reliable data is crucial for customer engagement, but data teams often face delay and missed opportunities as a result of an inability to trace, diagnose and resolve data … continue reading
During its API Summit today, Kong announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs. It announced that Kong Event Gateway will be added to Kong Konnect later this quarter. Kong Event Gateway was first introduced earlier this year, and it provides a unified workspace for building, governing, securing, exposing, and … continue reading
Software testing company BrowserStack announced a Visual Review Agent for its visual web testing platform Percy. “Visual testing has reached a point where the question is no longer ‘why’ but ‘how to make it scalable?’” Ritesh Arora, CEO and co-founder at BrowserStack “The Visual Review Agent brings AI into the heart of visual testing, cutting … continue reading
When the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) came into effect in 2024, it marked the world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for AI. The law introduced risk-based obligations—ranging from minimal to unacceptable—and codified requirements around transparency, accountability, and testing. But more than a legal milestone, it crystallized a broader debate: who is responsible … continue reading
Moderne, a company that provides solutions to help modernize code, announced that its Lossless Semantic Tree (LST) code model now supports JavaScript and TypeScript. LST is a format-preserving code model that captures syntax, types, symbols, dependencies, control and data flow, and whitespace. With today’s announcement, LST can now model Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and common Infrastructure-as-Code … continue reading
A recent CIO article revealed a startling reality: 31% of employees admit to sabotaging their company’s generative AI strategy. That’s nearly one in three workers actively slowing down, blocking, or undermining progress. Now layer in the math: most AI initiatives involve dozens of employees. That means statistically, almost every project or proof-of-concept is being impacted by one or … continue reading
Salesforce—ahead of its Dreamforce 2025 conference this week—announced the general availability of Agentforce 360, its agentic AI platform. Agentforce was first introduced last October, and over the last year, the company has added several new capabilities to the platform, such as the ability to embed agents in workflows and improved interoperability and governance. “These milestones … continue reading
Amazon launches Quick Suite to provide agentic AI across applications and AWS services Amazon Quick Suite allows users to ask questions, conduct deep research, analyze and visualize data, and create automations. It can connect to internal repositories, like wikis or intranet, and AWS services. Amazon also offers 50+ built-in connectors to applications like Adobe Analytics, … continue reading
In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” with a tweet that instantly resonated across the developer community. The idea was simple yet powerful: instead of writing code line-by-line, you describe what you want in natural language, and an AI model scaffolds the entire solution. No formal specs, no boilerplate grind, just vibes. … continue reading
