Anthropic built its own git replacement for AI-scale coding. But you can’t have it.
This week, Anthropic revealed it built an in-house version control system to handle exploding code merges. It says Claude was both part Th…
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“A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on one shared service
OpenCode 2.0 is getting a formal unpacking today, some three months after its public beta launch. The sizable architectural upgrade The post “…
Google paid $90,000 for this bug, then waited two months to fix it
Google took two months to patch an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in its developer documentation infrastructure. The problem was a reused The pos…
GitHub Copilot is going local — but Microsoft won’t say what gets sent to the cloud
GitHub Copilot will soon decide whether coding tasks run locally or get sent to cloud models, with automatic routing expected The post GitHub Copilo…
OpenSearch veterans launch Infino. Here’s why it matters for agent builders.
Software vendors like to claim unified systems that act as a so-called single pane of glass for any given coding The post OpenSearch veterans launch…
What’s up, Docsy? Google’s docs project joins the Linux Foundation as AI agents become readers
Technical documentation is increasingly being read by AI agents, creating a new set of demands around how that information is The post What’s…
Copilot tops GitHub’s own AI code review benchmark. An independent one tells a different story.
If there’s one thing the AI software engineering world doesn’t lack, it’s benchmarks. Want to know whether an agent can The post C…
GitHub’s advice for its new Copilot feature is to try something else first
GitHub launched computer use in public preview on Thursday, giving Copilot CLI and its desktop app the ability to operate The post GitHub’s ad…
AI coding agents leaked 13,000 screenshots, and nobody hacked them.
AI coding agents trying to work around a limitation in GitHub’s command-line tool ended up publishing more than 13,000 internal The post AI co…
Anthropic bought Stainless and shuttered its SDK generator. Cloudflare open-sourced Forge instead.
Cloudflare has announced an open source tool that takes an API definition and automatically produces the SDKs, command-line tools, documentation, Th…
Performance engineering from kernel analysis to AI: Adrian Cockcroft’s take
Over its five-year history, P99 CONF has hosted quite a few speakers who’ve offered pointed takedowns of the namesake metric. The post Perform…
Google’s Gemini CLI now asks before editing your build files
The appeal of an autonomous coding agent is that you hand it a task, give it access to your repository The post Google’s Gemini CLI now asks b…
OpenAI makes you call sales for a custom voice. Google just made it self-serve.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS today through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The post OpenAI makes you call…
Automattic says CEO Mullenweg was gone and back inside 33 hours. What happened between?
There were unusual goings-on this month at Automattic, a company known for its free and open-source app for building WordPress The post Automattic s…
“Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete
Something of a consensus has emerged from the developer fraternity in 2026 — GitHub, a platform built substantively for human The post “Everyo…
Anthropic bet users were choosing wrong. So it removed the choice.
Using Claude for anything beyond a quick question has always started with a routing decision to use Chat or Cowork? The post Anthropic bet users wer…
“Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI
OpenAI has hired the founders of Git AI, an open-source tool that tracks how much code is written by AI The post “Same mission, bigger stage&#…
K2 Horizon just shipped as six new fully open models — developers aren’t fully convinced
Based in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) introduced K2 Horizon last week. This group The post K2 Horizon ju…
Harness rebuilt its Git repository for nonstop AI agent traffic
As one of Harness’s field CTOs, Martin Reynolds spends much of his time asking engineering leaders one question with no The post Harness rebui…
“Twenty years of brand building simply froze in time”: How coding agents select their tools of choice
The impact of AI has led to a shift in interest from Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to Answer Engine Optimisation The post “Twenty years of brand…
Polars 2.0 pre-release comes with a 5x speed boost — but it could change row order
Working with large datasets can lead to slow queries and out-of-memory errors. Polars, an open-source library that developers and data The post Pola…
Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not.
I have been waiting for agent-generated code to show up in public infrastructure data rather than in vendor benchmarks. In The post Commits on GitHu…
LM Studio built a judge for AI commands. Then the judge started agreeing with the defendant.
A command as ordinary as git diff can become a problem for an AI coding agent once a variable gets The post LM Studio built a judge for AI commands.…
Spline rebuilt its entire 3D editor. Then it handed the keys to Claude Code.
Spline released V2 on Thursday, a complete rebuild of its 3D editor that enables external coding agents to work directly The post Spline rebuilt its…
“If GitHub was stable, these alternatives would not be as interesting”: Cursor launches Origin as GitHub goes dark
Cursor has officially thrown its hat into the code-hosting ring with Origin, a Git-compatible platform built for a world where The post “If Gi…
Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn’t it helping govern the format?
Earlier this month, Vercel released Agent Plugins 1.0.0 with core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Google announced the The post…
SpaceXAI trained Grok 4.6 on something most AI labs throw away
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on Wednesday, less than a month after Grok 4.5. The company says Grok 4.6 can research The post SpaceXAI trained Grok 4.6…
Meta Muse Code vs. Fable 5: Meta Muse is cheaper, but at what cost?
Meta released Muse Code on August 5, its first AI coding agent, built on the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. The post Meta Muse Code vs. Fable 5: Meta Mus…
Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard. Here’s why it matters for developers.
OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub and Microsoft have backed Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a portable package format for reusable components that extends The post F…
Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors
Choosing a coding agent may soon no longer mean having to pick a new editor or terminal, too. That scenario The post Free agents: How AWS Kiro could…