#ai-coding

#ai-coding

Warp has added a version of its artificial intelligence (AI) agent for writing code that integrates directly within a command line interface (CLI). Company CEO Zach Lloyd said rather than working with AI agents within the context of an integrated development environment, Warp Code embeds AI agents with a CLI that is likely to prove more appealing to some developers and many DevOps engineers that prefer a traditional terminal-based coding experience.

Just over a hundred visitors had crowded into an office building in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood for a showdown that would pit teams armed with AI coding tools against those made up of only humans (all were asked to ditch their shoes at the door). The hackathon was dubbed "Man vs. Machine," and its goal was to test whether AI really does help people code faster-and better.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was the recipient of some very bad vibes last week after bragging on X that nearly half his exchange's code is already AI-generated, with plans to push it higher. The post unleashed a torrent of ridicule, and seemed to crystalize the skepticism over the reliability of "vibe coding" tools that's been bubbling for months.

You might say that the biggest AI startups are led by professionally unreliable narrators, who theorize about the future of their companies - and their industry, and humanity in general - with a variety of clear but sometimes conflicting biases. This can make it somewhat hard, from the outside, to figure out which vision investors are banking on, beyond a general fear of missing out: Mass labor automation? AI-assisted research? Mainstream search-like products that could unseat Google?

The churn rate for everyone is really high. You have to build a retentive business. Stronger offerings are needed to keep customers engaged long-term.

According to an email The Information viewed, employees were given until August 10 to decide whether they want to take the buyout, which amounts to nine months of salary. Those who choose to stay are reportedly required to spend six days at the office and clock 80+ hour weeks - draconian conditions that have become table stakes among workers at top AI firms.

"When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase 'vibe coding' for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, 'It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects ... but it's not really coding.'"},{

Cognition has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf for an undisclosed sum, capping a corporate tug of war that left OpenAI empty handed.

The developer will make an instance of this class and pass in their credentials for ease of use.

"Devstral [...] is trained to solve real GitHub issues," writes Mistral in a blog post provided to TechCrunch.

Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly, it's not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI, a source close to the company tells TechCrunch.