Is Agile dead in the age of AI?

Since the 2001 Agile Manifesto, software development has thrived on principles like “individuals and interactions over processes,” continuous delivery, and embracing change. Over the following decades, we watched Agile disrupt heavyweight, documentation-driven SDLCs by enabling iterative value delivery and adaptive planning. Now, fast forward to 2025, and AI is drastically changing software development. Models like …

The hidden crisis behind AI’s promise: Why data quality became an afterthought

Companies rushed into AI adoption without building the data foundations necessary to make it work reliably. Now they’re discovering that even the most sophisticated algorithms can’t overcome fundamentally flawed information, and the consequences extend far beyond poor performance metrics.  The problem is strategic. Companies are building AI applications on data foundations that were never designed …

July 2025: All AI updates from the past month

Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and …

Understanding the code modernization conundrum

Like many large enterprises, we must navigate the beauty and chaos of legacy code. In our case, decades of SQL procedures and business logic that underpin a platform capable of handling over 3 million concurrent users and hundreds of micro code deployments per week. It’s a complex machine. Touch one part, and you risk breaking …

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AI-Generated Code Poses Major Security Risks in Nearly Half of All Development Tasks, Veracode Research Reveals   

While AI is becoming better at generating that functional code, it is also enabling attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in that code more quickly and effectively. This is making it easier for less-skilled programmers to attack the code, increasing the speed and sophistication of those attacks — creating a situation in which code vulnerabilities …

Stack Overflow: Developers’ trust in AI outputs is worsening year over year

More and more developers are adopting AI, but the trust they have in its outputs is getting worse and worse over the years. This is according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which gathered responses from 49,000 developers across 177 countries. This year, 84% of respondents say they are using or plan to use AI …

Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required

Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and tools, using natural language and visual editing.  “Opal is a great tool to accelerate …

This week in AI dev tools: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, GitLab Duo Agent Platform beta, and more (July 25, 2025)

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available The model is Google’s fastest and cheapest model, costing $0.10/1M tokens for input and $0.40/1M tokens for output (compared to $1.25/1M tokens for input and $10/1M tokens for output in Gemini 2.5 Pro). “We built 2.5 Flash-Lite to push the frontier of intelligence per dollar, with native reasoning …

Google adds updated workspace templates in Firebase Studio that leverage new Agent mode

Google is adding several new features to its cloud-based AI workspace Firebase Studio, following its update a few weeks ago when it added new Agent modes, support for MCP, and integration with the Gemini CLI.  Now it is announcing updated workspace templates for Flutter, Angular, React, Next.js, and general Web that use the Agent mode …

Tenable updates Vulnerability Priority Rating scoring method to flag fewer vulnerabilities as critical

Tenable is updating its Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) method of scoring vulnerabilities to enable organizations to focus their efforts on the most critical and impactful vulnerabilities. According to the company, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), which is used by the CVE database, flags 60% of vulnerabilities as high or critical. When Tenable VPR was launched …

AI-enabled software development: Risk of skill erosion or catalyst for growth?

As artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of software development, a fundamental question arises: does AI erode essential engineering skills, or does it pave the way for new capabilities? This tension is especially pronounced with the growing presence of code assistants and agentic AI: these tools increasingly handle routine coding tasks, raising concerns that traditional …

Google launches OSS Rebuild tool to improve trust in open source packages

Google is hoping to improve public trust in open source projects with the launch of a new open source project called OSS Rebuild that reproduces upstream artifacts and compares the new package with the original artifact. According to Google, this process enables customers to verify a package’s origin, understand and repeat its build process, and …

AI and its impact on the developer experience, or ‘where is the joy?’

The role of software developer has historically morphed to keep up with advancements in technology. From basic writing and testing code, to use of open source code, to Agile and DevOps tools and methodologies, to security and cloud, and now to AI and vibe coding, developers have been asked to take on more tasks that …

Parasoft brings agentic AI to service virtualization in latest release

Parasoft is helping customers address the unique requirements for testing AI with several new capabilities across its various testing solutions. The company added an agentic AI assistant to its virtual testing simulation solution Virtualize, allowing customers to create virtual services using natural language prompts.  For example, a user could write the prompt: “Create a virtual …

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How Leading Software Vendor Onit Enables Instant Business Intelligence

Empowering legal teams with instant data clarity? Easy.   Corporate legal departments rely on workflow automation to enhance efficiency, but integrating and accessing critical legal data for enterprise reporting remains a challenge. Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline provides simple and secure access to a broad range of data sources.   In this webinar, you’ll see …

The Value-Driven AI Roadmap: A CIO’s Blueprint for Success

Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …

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Trust but Verify? The Risks Lurking in AI-Generated Code

As AI-powered coding assistants become more prevalent, developers are increasingly incorporating AI-generated code snippets into their projects… But how reliable and secure is it? The last Dora report made it clear: there is a 7.2% drop in delivery stability for every 25% increase in AI use! In this webinar, we’ll explore the risks AI-generated code …

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    How Leading Software Vendor Onit Enables Instant Business Intelligence

    Empowering legal teams with instant data clarity? Easy.   Corporate legal departments rely on workflow automation to enhance efficiency, but integrating and accessing critical legal data for enterprise reporting remains a challenge. Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline provides simple and secure access to a broad range of data sources.   In this webinar, you’ll see …

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    The Value-Driven AI Roadmap: A CIO’s Blueprint for Success

    Not sure where to go with AI? Here’s your roadmap: AI technology is disrupting industries at unprecedented speed, yet Gartner research reveals 47% of AI initiatives fail to reach production. This session examines how enterprise-grade AI capabilities, now accessible to businesses of all sizes, are fundamentally transforming operations, while organizational readiness lags critically behind. Our four-phase …

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    SD Times Live! Microwebinar Series — with Accusoft

    Accusoft’s PrizmDoc is transforming document management with a unified, AI-driven approach. In this microwebinar series, Product Director Dan Lee shows how PrizmDoc’s auto-summarization, auto-tagging & classification, document Q&A, and PII detection & redaction tools eliminate manual effort, surface key insights instantly, and safeguard sensitive data – all while fitting seamlessly into your existing workflows. Discover …

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    Better Together: Supercharge Your ServiceNow Investment with AIOps

    Struggling to get full value from your ITSM? You’re not alone. Many enterprises face the same uphill service management climb: too many tickets, unnecessary escalations, and manual incident workflows that impede rapid resolution. L1s are overwhelmed, L2 escalation teams are bogged down in root cause investigations, and scaling with business with incident response automation feels …

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    Trust but Verify? The Risks Lurking in AI-Generated Code

    As AI-powered coding assistants become more prevalent, developers are increasingly incorporating AI-generated code snippets into their projects… But how reliable and secure is it? The last Dora report made it clear: there is a 7.2% drop in delivery stability for every 25% increase in AI use! In this webinar, we’ll explore the risks AI-generated code …

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    Cut Costs, Not Insights: A Practical Guide to Telemetry Data Optimization

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