Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.

VS Code is perfect for most of us, but let’s not pretend it’s just another open-source tool. The source code is available under the MIT license, but the product you actually download from Microsoft is ...

Pencil.dev focuses on design-to-code speed versus static tools; upcoming reusable component libraries are planned for 2026.

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

A hot potato: Just one month after it announced a price hike for US subscribers, Spotify has revealed that the best developers at the company have not written a single line of code since December, ...

The dispute went viral, prompting maintainers to lock the thread. An AI agent sparked an unusually personal clash with human developers after it responded angrily to its code submission being turned ...

Most companies are still operating under a software development mental model that no longer holds. For many, one-week sprints are considered “fast.” Story points, velocity and agile ceremonies ...

Thomas Dohmke, who helped scale GitHub Copilot during his tenure as CEO at GitHub, is back with a new startup that’s coming out of stealth with a hefty $60 million seed round. Silicon Valley venture ...