Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

Extension that converts individual Java files to Kotlin code aims to ease the transition to Kotlin for Java developers.

Pencil.dev focuses on design-to-code speed versus static tools; upcoming reusable component libraries are planned for 2026.

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Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

A hot potato: Just one month after it announced a price hike for US subscribers, Spotify has revealed that the best developers at the company have not written a single line of code since December, ...

The dispute went viral, prompting maintainers to lock the thread. An AI agent sparked an unusually personal clash with human developers after it responded angrily to its code submission being turned ...

Most companies are still operating under a software development mental model that no longer holds. For many, one-week sprints are considered “fast.” Story points, velocity and agile ceremonies ...