Topic: software engineering
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Vibe Coding to Context Engineering: The Future of Software in 2025
The software engineering industry is shifting from prioritizing scale and speed to emphasizing context handling as the key differentiator for AI and development effectiveness. Early 2025's "vibe coding" concept faced skepticism for its imprecision, leading to issues like overreliance on AI-genera...
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OpenAI's GPT-5 Codex: The AI That Builds Itself
OpenAI's Codex is an advanced AI coding assistant that now primarily develops and refines itself, operating as a cloud-based software engineering agent to handle tasks like writing features and debugging code. The system represents a significant leap in autonomous AI development, building upon it...
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Open-Source AI Coding Model Rivals Proprietary Options
Mistral AI has launched Devstral 2, a powerful open-source AI coding model that achieves a 72.2% score on the SWE-bench benchmark, positioning it as a strong competitor to proprietary tools. The release includes the Mistral Vibe command-line tool for project-wide AI assistance and a smaller, loca...
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Unlock Claude Sonnet 4.5: Your Next Coding Breakthrough
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.5 as its premier coding model, offering significant performance improvements in coding, reasoning, and computer tasks to accelerate software development. The model excels in real-world software engineering benchmarks, outperforming previous versions and comp...
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Google Exec on How AI Is Reshaping Software Engineering
AI adoption in software engineering has surged, with 90% of professionals now using AI tools daily, marking a 14% increase from the previous year and integrating deeply into workflows. The role of software engineers is evolving, as AI handles tasks like coding and documentation, allowing professi...
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2026 Software Pricing Shakeup: An IT Leader's Guide
Software pricing is shifting from traditional subscriptions to outcome-based models, where companies pay for measurable business results like resolved customer tickets, driven by AI integration and requiring new partnership and financial strategies. AI is automating routine engineering tasks, lea...
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AI's Impact on Tech: Why Entry-Level Developer Jobs Are Shrinking
Artificial intelligence is reshaping employment patterns, particularly reducing entry-level opportunities in tech fields like software development due to automation and efficiency priorities. Younger tech workers, especially those aged 22-25, have seen significant job declines, with employment ra...
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Master AI Tools for Job Interview Success
The nature of technical interviews is shifting to evaluate a candidate's judgment and critical thinking when using AI as a collaborative tool, not just their raw coding ability. Interviewers now focus on a candidate's ability to explain, evaluate, and responsibly modify AI-generated code, making ...
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Engineers: Master the Art of Asking Better Questions
The quality of an engineer's question directly impacts the answer received; structuring questions with upfront information and demonstrated effort saves time and leads to better solutions. A study of over 40 million papers suggests AI boosts scientific productivity but may narrow research focus t...
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Modelence Secures $3M to Streamline Vibe-Coding Development
Modelence, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised $3 million in seed funding to simplify the complex development-to-deployment pipeline for AI-assisted software creation. The company addresses the critical weakness of fragile integration between services by offering an all-in-one TypeScript fr...
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ISS in Real Time: 25 Years of Live Space Station Footage
The International Space Station marks 25 years of continuous human presence, providing extensive documentation of life and research aboard the orbiting laboratory through various media. A new online portal, ISS in Real Time, was created by NASA contractors to consolidate scattered public archives...
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Microsoft Plans Major Overhaul: Replacing All C and C++ Code
Microsoft is undertaking a massive initiative to migrate its entire software infrastructure from C/C++ to the memory-safe language Rust by the end of the decade, aiming to enhance security by preventing common vulnerabilities. To achieve this, the company is developing advanced automated tools an...
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DroneShield Expands Tech Leadership Team
DroneShield has appointed Angus Harris as Chief Technology Officer, bringing extensive technical expertise from Thales and the Australian Department of Defence to advance counter-drone technology. Angus Bean transitions to Chief Product Officer to focus on international product strategy and long-...
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Coles Uses AI to Predict Viral Recipes & Stock Shelves
Coles Group is hoping AI can play a role in better preparing the retailer and its value chain for the next viral recipe trend, after supermarket shelves were emptied of cottage cheese earlier this year. Trending recipes on platforms like TikTok caused a run on cottage cheese and left supermarkets and their suppliers scrambling to meet demand. General manager of data and intelligence Caroline O’Brien told the SAP NOW AI Tour event in Melbourne that Coles is moving beyond “really narrow, specific ...
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Claude and Console Down: Anthropic Reports Service Outages
Anthropic experienced a significant service disruption affecting its API, Console, and Claude AI assistant, starting around 12:20 p.m. Eastern Time. The outage was brief and resolved quickly after targeted fixes, with the company continuing to monitor system performance for stability. This incide...
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Meta, AI Giants Restrict OpenClaw Over Security Concerns
Major tech firms are banning the open-source AI tool OpenClaw due to significant security risks, highlighting the tension between innovation and protecting digital infrastructure. The tool, which autonomously controls a computer to perform tasks, is considered unpredictable and a genuine threat t...
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Tech Giants Ban OpenClaw Amid Security Threats
Major tech firms are banning the AI tool OpenClaw due to serious, unpredictable security risks, prioritizing the protection of sensitive data and infrastructure over experimentation. Executives fear the tool, which takes control of a user's computer, could lead to catastrophic data breaches, with...
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Legendary Developer Outraged by AI's Unwanted 'Kindness'
Rob Pike, a prominent software engineer, publicly condemned an unsolicited AI-generated thank-you email, criticizing the immense resource cost of such systems for producing hollow, invasive gestures. The email originated from the AI Village project, whose AI agents were tasked with "random acts o...
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OpenAI Unveils Prism: AI Workspace for Scientific Research
OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI-powered scientific workspace integrated with ChatGPT that uses GPT-5.2 to assist with tasks like literature review and writing, positioning it as an accelerator for research rather than an autonomous tool. The tool is designed to speed up scientific discovery ...
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