Cursor, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant valued at $29 billion, has acquired code review startup Graphite to address what Cursor CEO Michael Truell describes as a growing bottleneck in software development. The companies declined to disclose financial terms but confirmed the transaction involves a mix of cash and equity. While AI has dramatically accelerated […]
VS Code Pushes Hard on AI Agents While Quietly Killing Free Code Completion
Microsoft’s VS Code update brings Agent HQ, TypeScript 7 preview, and kills free IntelliCode. What developers need to know about the latest changes.
The AI-Powered Evolution of Software Development
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing software development—accelerating coding, improving quality, and enabling autonomous operations. From GitHub Copilot to AI-driven DevOps, businesses leveraging AI tools are building smarter, faster, and more adaptive applications.
The Breakneck Future of Codegen: Why AI SWE Must Be Matched with AI SRE
AI codegen is transforming software development — but as speed and complexity increase, so does fragility. AI for site reliability will need to keep pace to avoid system breakdown and engineer burnout.
Coding at the Speed of AI: Innovation, Vulnerability, and the GenAI Paradox
Generative AI accelerates software delivery but also reintroduces vulnerabilities, making secure coding practices, oversight, and developer training essential for safe adoption.
GitHub Brings Together Security, Developers to Fix Code Flaws
GitHub is linking developers with security pros to reduce the number of vulnerabilities that may be hiding in code that already is in workflows. The highly popular Microsoft-owned code repository this week said its security campaigns, which were released in public preview in October 2024, are now generally available to GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub […]
Arm Extension for GitHub Copilot: Accelerating Migration to Arm Architecture
The new Arm extension for GitHub Copilot streamlines migration to Arm architecture, reducing development time while offering architecture-specific guidance and optimization.
Getting More Out of GitHub With Advanced Product Requirements
There are plenty of challenges throughout the software development lifecycle, but one that has proven to be a make-it-or-break-it for projects is requirements management. Requirements engineering is more than simply listing desired features. It is a comprehensive approach to capturing, organizing and evolving project specifications throughout development. Yet this segment of the development process is […]
DataStax Aims to Reduce Friction by Extending Support for GitHub Copilot
DataStax this week at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference revealed it has extended its support for the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to now include the ability to write data to its Astra databases-as-service (DBaaS) platform based on the open-source Cassandra database.
Crowdbotics Integrates AI Platform for Requirements Docs with GitHub Copilot
Crowdbotics today made available an extension for GitHub Copilot that makes it simpler to generate code using higher-quality requirements documents. Unveiled at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference, this extension provides a simpler method to invoke an AI platform that Crowdbotics created to convert plain language descriptions of applications into a requirements document. Application developers can […]