WinUIpad: AI to the Rescue ⭐

With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Copilot CLI Reaches General Availability, Bringing Agentic Coding to the Terminal

GitHub Copilot CLI is now generally available for all paid Copilot subscribers, offering agentic workflows, multiple AI model support, and specialized agents for terminal-based development.

Vibe coding with overeager AI: Lessons learned from treating Google AI Studio like a teammate

I wanted to build an entire production‑ready business application by directing an AI inside a vibe coding environment without writing a single line of code myself.
GitHub

Container Tools for Visual Studio Code

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...
The Hacker News

Microsoft Warns Developers of Fake Next.js Job Repos Delivering In-Memory Malware

While the Windows maker did not attribute the activity to a specific threat actor, the use of VS Code tasks and Vercel ...
Dark Reading

Malicious Next.js Repos Target Developers Via Fake Job Interviews

Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...

Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware

All of the execution paths identified by its research team are designed to trigger during the Next.js devs' normal working ...
IEEE

DemoCraft: Using In-Context Learning to Improve Code Generation in Large Language Models

Abstract: Producing executable code from natural-language directives via Large Language Models (LLMs) involves obstacles like semantic uncertainty and the requirement for task-focused context ...