Google’s coding agent Jules gets critique functionality

Google is enhancing its AI coding agent, Jules, with new functionality that reviews and critiques code while Jules is still working on it.  “In a world of rapid iteration, the critic moves the review to earlier in the process and into the act of generation itself. This means the code you review has already been …

bitHuman launches SDK for creating AI avatars

AI company bitHuman has announced a visual SDK for creating avatars for use as chat agents, instructors, virtual coaches, companions, and experts in different fields.  According to the company, the SDK allows avatars to be created on Arm-based and x86 systems without a GPU. The avatars have a small footprint and can be run online …

GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke steps down, triggering tighter integration of company within Microsoft

GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of the year.  Dohmke says he will be staying with the company through the end of the year to help with the transition. When he leaves GitHub, he plans to build a new startup. “After all this time, my startup …

How developer advocacy fuels product growth

Developer advocacy is a specialized role within developer relations focused on helping customers understand how the latest trends and products translate into value, Wade Wegner, chief ecosystem and growth officer at DigitalOcean, explained during a recent episode of our What the Dev? podcast.  Advocates work to drive adoption of products, but how they do it …

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Modern React animation libraries: Real examples for engaging UIs

Animation, when applied with purpose, clarifies intent and reduces friction in modern UIs. In React, the right animation library can bridge the gap between basic layouts and interfaces that feel intentional and well-crafted. Below are three production-ready libraries I rely on: typewriter-effect, react-vivus, and react-awesome-reveal. These libraries focus on different animation needs, remain easy to …

The coming AI smartphone: Redefining personal tech

Whispers of “AI PCs” have been circulating for some time, promising a new era of on-device intelligence. Yet, for many, the reality has felt underwhelming, with a scarcity of compelling applications that truly leverage the dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) within these machines. But what if the next leap in personal AI isn’t a desktop …

This week in AI dev tools: GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, and more (August 8, 2025)

OpenAI launches GPT-5 OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according to …

Melissa brings its data quality solutions to Azure with new SSIS integration

Melissa, a provider of data quality solutions, is making it possible for customers to run its SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components in Azure Data Factory through the Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime. This brings the power of Melissa’s data quality features to the cloud, providing customers greater flexibility in where their data is stored. SSIS is …

OpenAI launches GPT-5

During a livestream today, OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according …

Elastic simplifies log analytics for SREs and developers with launch of Log Essentials

Elastic has announced the release of Log Essentials, providing SREs and developers with capabilities for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and alerting on logs. It is designed to enable developers to access observability capabilities without needing to manage the operations, upgrades, or tuning.  “SREs need a hassle-free, scale-as-you-go, high-availability logging solution that empowers them to focus entirely …

Accelerate tool adoption with a developer experimentation framework

It’s imperative that business leaders can enable their business to work at the speed that technology is moving. However, lengthy and cumbersome approval processes to adopt new tools can hinder an organization’s ability to keep pace, especially when they need to remain compliant with regulations and standards, such as FedRAMP and SOC-2.  With a three-stage …

OpenAI releases two open weight reasoning models

OpenAI is joining the open weight model game with the launch of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.  Gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production, high reasoning use cases, and gpt-oss-20b is designed for lower latency or local use cases.  According to the company, these open models are comparable to its closed models in terms of performance and capability, but …

.NET Aspire’s CLI reaches general availability in 9.4 release

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet.  .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to build distributed apps with observability built in.  With this release, Aspire’s CLI is now generally available and includes four core …

African training program creates developers with cloud-native skills

With cloud native technologies becoming foundational for software development and deployment, and finding developers skilled in those areas a challenge, talent marketplace provider Andela and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation have partnered to create the Kubernetes African Developer Training Program that more than 5,600 Africans have completed. Andela and the CNCF are looking to train …

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