GitHub has launched a standalone Copilot desktop app in technical preview, moving beyond the IDE to introduce a dedicated cockpit for agentic development. The app enables developers to manage parallel, isolated agent sessions directly from GitHub issues, while introducing “Agent Merge”—a feature that autonomously fixes CI failures and handles code reviews to streamline the entire PR lifecycle.
Developers Using Anthropic Claude Code Hit by Token Drain Crisis
Anthropic’s Claude Code users report Max tier quotas exhausting in under 20 minutes. Explore the “Cache-22” of prompt caching, session limits, and why AI coding “opacity” is stalling developer workflows.
Google Adds Hooks to Gemini CLI for Customized AI Workflows
Enhance Gemini CLI with new hooks to customize AI assistant workflows without code changes. Improve control and optimize AI for development teams.
Malicious VS Code Extensions Take Screenshots, Steal Info
Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with methods for delivering information-stealing malware to the victims’ systems. The malicious extensions come posing as a harmless “premium dark theme” and an AI-powered coding assistant, but both – […]
The Coding Assistant Bottleneck: Applying the 3-Ways
AI coding assistants are the talk of the town, and for good reason. Tools that can turn a comment into a function or autocomplete entire classes are genuinely changing the developer experience. We’re writing more code, faster than ever before. It feels like a massive productivity win. But is it? While we’ve supercharged the early […]
Cursor 2.0 Brings Faster AI Coding and Multi-Agent Workflows
Cursor 2.0 introduces the Composer AI model and a new multi-agent interface—offering faster coding, smarter context, and seamless DevOps integration.
Finding the Right AI Coding Assistant for Your Team
A recent survey by StackOverflow showed that 76% of professional developers are already using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools for development this year. If you haven’t yet evaluated and chosen an AI coding assistant for your team, you may quickly find yourself in the minority.