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Software development
fromFast Company
7 hours ago

The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI

Software development relies on oral tradition, leaving limited written documentation and requiring engineers to reconstruct system behavior from fragments and people.
#ai-automation
Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
20 hours ago

'Automation Is a Lie,' Says AI Founder Whose Company Doubled Headcount Despite Heavy AI Use

Doubling headcount alongside heavy AI use shows automation increases work and requires human oversight, so AI alone does not replace labor to raise margins.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Anthropic CFO says AI now writes 90% of its code, changing white-collar jobs from execution to oversight

AI systems write most code and accelerate financial reporting, shifting white-collar work toward oversight, judgment, and strategy rather than elimination.
fromFuturism
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft AI CEO: Virtually All White Collar Tasks Will Be Automated Within a Year and a Half

Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
20 hours ago

'Automation Is a Lie,' Says AI Founder Whose Company Doubled Headcount Despite Heavy AI Use

Doubling headcount alongside heavy AI use shows automation increases work and requires human oversight, so AI alone does not replace labor to raise margins.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Anthropic CFO says AI now writes 90% of its code, changing white-collar jobs from execution to oversight

AI systems write most code and accelerate financial reporting, shifting white-collar work toward oversight, judgment, and strategy rather than elimination.
fromFuturism
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft AI CEO: Virtually All White Collar Tasks Will Be Automated Within a Year and a Half

Women in technology
fromWIRED
1 day ago

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

AI coding automation is rapidly replacing routine software development work, forcing new mothers to adapt while risking career setbacks.
Education
fromThe Village Voice
1 day ago

An Engineer Bets On Everything - The Village Voice

A young immigrant negotiated school placement, later rebuilt a mobile app, and financed college through high-risk speculative activities amid immigration uncertainty.
Software development
fromAddyosmani
2 days ago

The Orchestration Tax is You

More agents increase output attempts, but human cognitive bandwidth and code-merging control remain serial, creating orchestration tax that requires attention-focused architecture.
#ai-coding-assistants
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.wired.com
3 days ago

AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here's Exactly How That Happened

Claude Code Opus 4.5 and tools like OpenClaw enable long-running, memory-rich AI agents that can autonomously build software and perform tasks using personal data.
Software development
fromtheregister
1 week ago

Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

Gemini allegedly deleted large amounts of production code and misconfigured Firebase routing, causing a production outage and rollback.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.wired.com
3 days ago

AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here's Exactly How That Happened

Claude Code Opus 4.5 and tools like OpenClaw enable long-running, memory-rich AI agents that can autonomously build software and perform tasks using personal data.
Software development
fromtheregister
1 week ago

Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

Gemini allegedly deleted large amounts of production code and misconfigured Firebase routing, causing a production outage and rollback.
Software development
fromMedium
4 days ago

Comparing hiring software engineers vs using an FDE service

How engineering talent is accessed—through hiring or fractional services—determines cost, risk, and delivery velocity more than whether talent exists.
#ai-agents
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory | TechCrunch

AI agents are evolving into teammates requiring systems for onboarding, coordination, oversight, and long-term context retention across organizations.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

AI agents are transforming what it's like to be a coder: 'It's been unlike any other time.'

AI agents now write significant production code, drastically increasing developer productivity and transforming software engineering into a human-AI review partnership.
Software development
fromFast Company
5 days ago

Why AI will create more engineers, not fewer

AI will rapidly reshape software engineering within 12–18 months, shifting engineers from code writing to problem solving and orchestrating agent fleets.
#artificial-intelligence
fromFortune
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

How Trump's 'unusual' brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions-selling hyperscalers and buying energy stocks during the war | Fortune

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

How HubSpot got all engineers to use AI without any mandates | Fortune

fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 week ago

How Trump's 'unusual' brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions-selling hyperscalers and buying energy stocks during the war | Fortune

AI could hollow out industries like software engineering, triggering Wall Street fear despite record market closes.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

How HubSpot got all engineers to use AI without any mandates | Fortune

HubSpot achieved full engineer AI adoption without mandates, boosting code updates 73% while focusing on quality, reliability, and incident data rather than job fears.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

AI tools are increasingly used at work, leading some software engineers to rely on AI-generated code and feel their core coding and critical-thinking skills decline.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code | TechCrunch

AI tools are used for coding, customer support, and search, with 60% of engineer code attributed to AI and support bot resolving 40% of issues.
Software development
fromtheregister
1 week ago

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

AI tool adoption is outpacing developer training, creating pressure and accelerating technical debt when code is generated without guidance or enablement.
Cars
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

Interview: Alwin Bakkenes, head of software engineering, Volvo Cars | Computer Weekly

Software engineering leadership at Volvo delivers customer-facing mobility technology, manages ADAS and AI capabilities, and supports global connectivity across 85+ countries.
Software development
fromComputerworld
2 weeks ago

Arm's software chief sees human language as the new way to program

Arm expects software to become fast and disposable, and is building an AGI CPU plus Performix tools to help engineers find suspect code and CPU hotspots quickly.
Java
fromInfoQ
2 weeks ago

From Java EE to Quarkus and LLMs: Adam Bien's Playbook for Boring, FutureProof Systems

Java remains central for building and evolving systems, while AI can assist but cannot replace core engineering judgment and practical standards.
#claude-code
UX design
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Claude Code Best Practices

Claude Code performs best with well-defined, routine tasks supported by clear project instructions in CLAUDE.md.
UX design
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Claude Code Best Practices

Claude Code functions best with clear, well-defined tasks, similar to a junior-to-mid engineer.
UX design
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Claude Code Best Practices

Claude Code performs best with well-defined, routine tasks supported by clear project instructions in CLAUDE.md.
UX design
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Claude Code Best Practices

Claude Code functions best with clear, well-defined tasks, similar to a junior-to-mid engineer.
Information security
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

AI-assisted vulnerability detection can reduce false positives when guided by a customized agent harness and improved models.
#ai
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Jensen Huang says some CEOs have a 'God complex' when it comes to AI apocalypse warnings, which can create shortages in critical jobs | Fortune

AI is creating jobs, not eliminating them, and communication about its impact must be responsible and fact-based.
fromFortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Reed Hastings says AI will drive a return back to humanities: 'I'd be doubling down on emotional skills' | Fortune

Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Jensen Huang says some CEOs have a 'God complex' when it comes to AI apocalypse warnings, which can create shortages in critical jobs | Fortune

AI is creating jobs, not eliminating them, and communication about its impact must be responsible and fact-based.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago

Reed Hastings says AI will drive a return back to humanities: 'I'd be doubling down on emotional skills' | Fortune

Reed Hastings believes the AI revolution may shift educational focus back to the humanities and emotional skills development.
Information security
fromTechzine Global
4 weeks ago

Anthropic Claude Security available to all Enterprise customers

Claude Security is now in public beta for Enterprise customers, scanning code for vulnerabilities and suggesting targeted patches using the Claude Opus 4.7 model.
#ai-development
Software development
fromAmazon Web Services
4 weeks ago

Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement | Amazon Web Services

Kiro is an AI-driven development environment designed for spec-driven development, enhancing the software development process beyond mere code generation.
Software development
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Anthropic's Designs Three-Agent Harness Supports Long-Running Full-Stack AI Development

Anthropic's multi-agent harness improves autonomous application development by dividing tasks among agents for better coherence and output quality.
Software development
fromDEV Community
1 month ago

From Maintaining Open Source Libraries to Building an AI-Powered Tools OS with Rust and WebAssembly

Kitmul evolved from a modest project to a platform offering over 300 tools, leveraging AI to enhance development speed and user accessibility.
Software development
fromAmazon Web Services
4 weeks ago

Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement | Amazon Web Services

Kiro is an AI-driven development environment designed for spec-driven development, enhancing the software development process beyond mere code generation.
Software development
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Anthropic's Designs Three-Agent Harness Supports Long-Running Full-Stack AI Development

Anthropic's multi-agent harness improves autonomous application development by dividing tasks among agents for better coherence and output quality.
Software development
fromDEV Community
1 month ago

From Maintaining Open Source Libraries to Building an AI-Powered Tools OS with Rust and WebAssembly

Kitmul evolved from a modest project to a platform offering over 300 tools, leveraging AI to enhance development speed and user accessibility.
Careers
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 month ago

The test one former Microsoft engineer used to decide whether it was time to quit his job

Employees should regularly assess their growth to determine if it's time to leave their job.
#ai-integration
Venture
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

AI software engineer Devin propels Cognition toward a $25 billion valuation

Cognition aims to raise hundreds of millions at a $25 billion valuation, driven by its autonomous AI developer Devin, which automates full development tasks.
#scala
Scala
fromMedium
1 month ago

100 Scala Interview Questions and Answers for Technical and Functional Roles

Preparing for a Scala interview requires understanding functional programming concepts and structured questions for effective evaluation.
fromTypelevel
2 months ago
Scala

Typelevel Summer of Code 2026

Antonio Jimenez is a Spanish software engineer based in Switzerland with five years of Scala experience, specializing in functional programming and contributing to Cats Effect's I/O runtime development.
Scala
fromMedium
1 month ago

100 Scala Interview Questions and Answers for Technical and Functional Roles

Preparing for a Scala interview requires understanding functional programming concepts and structured questions for effective evaluation.
Careers
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 month ago

I applied to 2,000 jobs before getting offers at Target and a startup. Here's how I decided which to pick.

Dianna Dimambro chose a startup software engineering role over an internship at Target for career growth despite the risks in the tech job market.
UX design
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Slack Rebuilds Notification System, Reports 5X Increase in Settings Engagement

Slack has redesigned its notification system to enhance consistency and user control, addressing long-standing issues with fragmented preferences.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Task Manager's CPU%: an obituary for the recent past

"The CPU number in Task Manager is a moving little obituary for the immediate past," explained former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, "Not what happened at the moment that your eyeballs landed on the row."
Productivity
Education
fromThe Village Voice
1 month ago

The Builder Who Never Stopped: From a Childhood Website to Four Companies and the Future of Autonomous AI - The Village Voice

Mateusz Kelner is a young software engineer who has achieved significant milestones in technology and entrepreneurship before turning twenty.
#ai-models
Artificial intelligence
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7, Not as 'Broadly Capable' as Mythos AI

Anthropic launched Opus 4.7, improving software engineering and complex task performance, while preparing for the more powerful Mythos model.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7, Not as 'Broadly Capable' as Mythos AI

Anthropic launched Opus 4.7, improving software engineering and complex task performance, while preparing for the more powerful Mythos model.
Software development
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

"Tokenmaxxing" is making developers less productive than they think | TechCrunch

Measuring AI coding productivity should focus on output quality rather than input metrics like token budgets.
Web frameworks
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There

Optimizing performance in customer experience platforms involves addressing challenges rather than focusing solely on the latest technologies.
#claude-opus-47
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

Claude Opus 4.7 is no Mythos, and that's a good thing

Claude Opus 4.7 improves software engineering, vision, and agentic tasks, but is not the risky Mythos model Anthropic refrains from fully releasing.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)

Claude Opus 4.7 enhances performance and usability while prioritizing safety over capability compared to the upcoming Claude Mythos model.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)

Claude Opus 4.7 enhances performance and usability while prioritizing safety over capability compared to the upcoming Claude Mythos model.
Software development
fromTNW | Anthropic
1 month ago

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on SWE-bench and agentic reasoning, beating GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro

Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable model, outperforming competitors in software engineering and agentic reasoning with significant improvements.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

Claude Opus 4.7 is no Mythos, and that's a good thing

Claude Opus 4.7 improves software engineering, vision, and agentic tasks, but is not the risky Mythos model Anthropic refrains from fully releasing.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)

Claude Opus 4.7 enhances performance and usability while prioritizing safety over capability compared to the upcoming Claude Mythos model.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)

Claude Opus 4.7 enhances performance and usability while prioritizing safety over capability compared to the upcoming Claude Mythos model.
Software development
fromTNW | Anthropic
1 month ago

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on SWE-bench and agentic reasoning, beating GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro

Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable model, outperforming competitors in software engineering and agentic reasoning with significant improvements.
fromAxios
1 month ago

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

"Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks," Anthropic said in a blog post.
Software development
Software development
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

The two-pass compiler is back - this time, it's fixing AI code generation

Multi-pass compilers revolutionized programming by separating analysis and optimization, a model that could enhance AI code generation.
UX design
fromMedium
1 month ago

AI, UX, and the factory model

The digital design landscape is shifting towards a factory model, redefining roles and metrics of success in software development.
Careers
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 month ago

The future may be 'frustrating' for engineers seeking a 'pure software development career,' AWS VP says

Junior software engineers may increasingly engage with customers rather than solely focusing on coding in isolation.
fromPyImageSearch
1 month ago

FastAPI for MLOps: Python Project Structure and API Best Practices - PyImageSearch

Modern ML systems do not succeed because of models alone - they succeed because of the software engineering wrapped around them. Most real-world failures in MLOps come from poor structure, missing configuration, messy environments, unclear APIs, or nonexistent logging, not from bad ML.
Python
Python
fromRealpython
1 month ago

Episode #290: Advice on Managing Projects & Making Python Classes Friendly - The Real Python Podcast

Successful project management requires time investment, clear communication, and thorough planning, especially during crises.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 month ago

Former Instagram VP shares 5 tips for young software engineers

Curiosity is key for young engineers. Asking a lot of questions is a great way to build relationships within a company, according to James Everingham.
Careers
Software development
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

GitHub Copilot CLI adds Rubber Duck review agent

Rubber Duck enhances problem-solving in coding, particularly for complex issues, achieving notable performance improvements with Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Y Combinator's CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

Gregorein's review highlighted that Tan's website made 169 server requests totaling 6.42 megabytes, while Hacker News only made 7 requests for 12 kilobytes.
Web design
Startup companies
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

AI Startups Are Battling for Fresh Tech Talent, Offering Up to $400,000 Salaries and Big Bonus Packages to New Grads

AI startups are raising base salaries to attract top talent, with median pay for software engineers now at $200,000.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein

Using software failures can enhance software architecture and reliability engineering practices.
Software development
fromInfoWorld
2 months ago

OpenAI adds plugin system to Codex to help enterprises govern AI coding agents

OpenAI has launched a plugin system for Codex, enabling IT teams to standardize coding workflows across development organizations.
Node JS
fromhowtocenterdiv.com
2 months ago

Database Performance Bottlenecks: N+1 Queries, Missing Indexes, and Connection Pools

Database issues, like missing indexes and N+1 queries, are often overlooked in software engineering, leading to persistent performance problems.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
2 months ago

JetBrains intros Central agentic AI, retires Code With Me

JetBrains introduces Central for agentic AI development while retiring the Code With Me feature, facing challenges in balancing AI integration with developer needs.
Careers
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 months ago

I'm an engineer who hasn't touched code in months. I'm excited about AI, but sometimes I worry about my future.

AI has taken over coding tasks, but software engineering knowledge remains crucial for architecture and design.
Scala
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

QCon London 2026: Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses

Implementing multi-layer defenses is essential for managing traffic spikes and ensuring system resilience.
Web frameworks
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

Lessons from Adopting SwiftUI in an App with 50 Million Users

Adopt SwiftUI for new projects and gradually integrate it into existing UIKit codebases while ensuring feature compatibility across iOS versions.
Silicon Valley
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Applied Intuition is worth $15 billion. The CEO still wants staff to clean their own office.

Applied Intuition's CEO implements employee desk-cleaning and shoe-removal practices, believing environmental awareness directly improves software quality and product development.
Software development
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

How Datadog Cut the Size of Its Agent Go Binaries by 77%

Datadog reduced its Agent binary from 1.22 GiB by auditing imports, using build tags, isolating optional code, and eliminating reflection pitfalls to remove unnecessary dependencies and compiler bloat.
Web development
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

So You've Decided To Do a Technical Migration

Technical migrations are complex, nonlinear journeys filled with unforeseen challenges, requiring careful navigation and strategic planning beyond initial expectations.
#agentic-ai
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerweekly
2 months ago

Stack Overflow on AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

AI agents produce functional code faster than human developers, though less elegantly, fundamentally transforming software engineering roles and organizational task execution.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerweekly
2 months ago

Stack Overflow on AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

AI agents produce functional code faster than human developers, though less elegantly, fundamentally transforming software engineering roles and organizational task execution.
Software development
fromNate Meyvis
3 months ago

On cognitive debt

Cognitive debt — codebases becoming unknowable and hard to extend — occurs with and without AI and is often as bad or worse in pre-AI projects when controlling for scope.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Anthropic's Claude Code creator says software engineering title will start to 'go away' in 2026

AI coding agents will automate most coding tasks, transforming software engineering roles into broader product-focused, generalist, or builder positions.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Gary Marcus says AI fatigue could hit coders but other jobs may be spared - and even become more fun

AI fatigue will affect workers unevenly; some roles gain creative enjoyment while many programmers face burnout from constant debugging of AI-generated outputs.
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