According to a recent survey, 40% of software engineering managers anticipate that AI will drastically change the skills needed to be a successful software engineer within the next three years. Unsurprisingly, the widespread adoption of AI code assistants and other Generative AI (GenAI) tools is transforming how organizations develop technical talent and how new software … continue reading
Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are capable of undertaking long-running tasks and can work continuously for several hours. Claude Opus 4 excels at coding and complex problem-solving, whereas Claude Sonnet 4 improves on Sonnet 3.7 and balances performance and efficiency. In addition to releasing these new models, the company also revealed a beta for … continue reading
At KotlinConf 2025, JetBrains teased some of the new features that are coming to Kotlin in the next update to the language. “From exciting language and ecosystem updates and robust AI tools that empower Kotlin development to major Kotlin Multiplatform milestones and a strategic partnership for the backend, KotlinConf 2025 brought a wave of news … continue reading
As businesses continue to experiment with AI-powered technologies, it’s likely that the most common use case across industries is one that essentially pre-dates the explosion of interest in generative AI, which is that of the humble chatbot. Anyone who has visited a business website over the last decade will have encountered a chatbot, particularly when … continue reading
Anchore is enabling “Bring Your Own SBOMs” with the release of Anchore SBOM, which provides a centralized place to view, manage, and analyze SBOMs created internally and from third-party software. SBOMs can be imported if they are in SPDX version 2.1-2.3, CycloneDX version 1.0-1.6, and Syft native formats. “We built Anchore Enterprise to be embedded … continue reading
CloudBees has announced it has brought its multiple standalone products together under a single platform called CloudBees Unify. According to the company, CloudBees unifies acts like a layer on top of existing toolchains, and it uses an open and modular architecture to connect to other tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Key features include a … continue reading
Google I/O is happening today, and Google has announced updates across many of its offerings, from Gemini to Colab to Android Studio. Gemini Gemini Diffusion is a new text model that delivers a 4-5x improvement in output speed compared to similar models and similar performance to models twice as large. The company also released Gemma … continue reading
For three years, I’ve watched the AI coding revolution unfold with a mix of fascination and frustration. As someone who’s built and led AI engineering and product teams at Google, SwiftKey, Yahoo, and beyond, I’m calling it: we’re collectively falling for a productivity mirage. We’re celebrating typing speed while ignoring the actual bottlenecks that cripple … continue reading
Red Hat today at its Summit event announced Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, which the company said was designed to make developers more productive and their applications more secure. The Advanced Developer Suite includes Red Hat Developer Hub, an internal developer portal (IDP) built on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation project Backstage. The Developer Hub … continue reading
Following in the steps of other software providers looking to protect their intellectual property, flexible installer company InstallAware today announced it has published the source code for InstallAware 2025 under a Business Source License. In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion within the industry as to what constitutes open source, and if … continue reading
Microsoft Build kicks off today, and Microsoft started off the event by introducing a number of AI-powered features designed to enhance the software development experience. A new coding agent has been added to GitHub Copilot that gets activated when a developer assigns it a GitHub issue or calls it via a prompt in VS Code. … continue reading
I was a guest of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) at its EU KubeCon conference in London the first week of April. Most of my conversations with the vendors at the event can be grouped under three main themes: multi-cluster management, AI workloads, and reducing Kubernetes costs on the cloud. Multi-cluster management Running Kubernetes … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. OpenAI announces … continue reading
GitLab has announced the latest version of its platform, incorporating more AI capabilities from Duo, the company’s suite of AI solutions, into the flagship DevSecOps platform. GitLab 18 includes Duo’s AI-powered Code Suggestions for code completion and code generation, and AI-powered Chat for code explanations, code refactoring, test generation, and code fixes. Those capabilities are … continue reading
