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How to Design the Software Engineering Organization to Deliver Business Value

Too often, software engineering organizations evolve reactively and are shaped by precedent or internal politics in a volatile and rapidly changing business environment, hindering intentional design. To deliver real business value, software engineering leaders should proactively optimize their organizational structures and delivery models to achieve both digital optimization and digital transformation. Evaluate Alternatives to Design …

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This week in AI updates: Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, and more (February 6, 2026)

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest version of the company’s most powerful class of AI models. Anthropic says that this release improves on Opus’ coding skills, and it now plans more carefully, sustains agent tasks for longer, can run more reliably in larger codebases, and has better code review and …

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Google previews Developer Knowledge API, MCP server that will make it easier to access docs for Google services

Google is attempting to make it easier for developers to access its documentation by creating the Developer Knowledge API and corresponding MCP server, both now in public preview. The Developer Knowledge API allows developers to search and retrieve documentation for Google’s services in Markdown. This includes documentation from firebase.google.com, developer.android.com, docs.cloud.google.com, and more. The two …

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Xcode 26.3 adds agentic coding support

Apple is enabling agentic coding within Xcode in the latest version of the development platform (version 26.3). Developers will now be able to use Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex directly in Xcode. “With seamless access to Claude Agent and Codex, developers can bring the advanced reasoning of these models directly into their app-building workflow. …

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The Shift from Chaos to Controlled Reliability Testing

Chaos engineering, the practice of proactively injecting failure to test system resilience,  has evolved. For enterprises today, the focus has shifted from chaos to reliability testing at scale. “Chaos testing, chaos engineering is a little bit of misnomer,” Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin, told SD Times about the term with which he launched …

Opsera introduces new DevOps agents to address AI-assisted coding issues

Opsera is releasing several new agents as a part of its Agentic DevOps offering that proactively manage DevOps workflows in an attempt to address some of the bottlenecks introduced by AI-assisted coding. According to a recent report from the company, AI-assisted coding can speed up metrics like Time-to-Pull Request or test pass rate, but it …

Snowflake and OpenAI’s partnership, new insights in Google Play Console, and more — Daily News Digest

Snowflake and OpenAI announce $200 million partnership The two companies will work on building customized AI solutions for their joint customers. Additionally, OpenAI’s models will be natively available on Snowflake Cortex AI across the three major cloud providers, and will also be accessible through Snowflake Intelligence. “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables …

Survey says: Container security issues continue to befuddle software developers 

Container security incidents are becoming more common, with nearly one in four respondents to a new survey from BellSoft saying they have experienced a security incident. The survey concluded that questions about security practices remain unresolved. According to the survey by OpenJDK provider BellSoft, 62% of participating developers reported that human errors were the biggest …

Quality starts with process: Addressing common gaps in software testing

No industry is immune to the need for high-quality software. Recently, automaker Ford recalled more than 355,000 trucks due to an instrument panel display issue; a flaw that risked hiding critical information like speed and, in turn, increasing the likelihood of car crashes. While not every software failure has such dramatic consequences, many organizations are …

January 2026: AI updates from the past month

Coder creates AI Maturity Self-Assessment and AI Maturity Curve These new tools will enable software development teams to assess how effectively they have adopted AI. The assessment asks teams questions like how standardized their developer environment is, what their governance approach for AI is, how they handle risks like sensitive data exposure, and more. “As …

m3ter launches m3sh Workflows to remove barriers to usage-based pricing

M3ter is attempting to make it easier for development teams to adopt usage-based pricing with the launch of m3sh Workflows, a new capability for automating processes between CRM and ERP systems. M3ter acts as an invisible infrastructure layer that provides usage data processing, complex rating, and automation of data flows between monetization systems, and m3sh …

IaC platform formae adds multi-cloud support, Plugin SDK

Platform Engineering Labs announced that its open-source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform, formae, now has beta support for multiple cloud providers, including Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and OVHcloud. During this beta period, the core workflows function on these clouds, but not all resources are supported yet. The company said it will expand support based on the …

Security lessons from AgentKit: Guardrails are not a get-out-of-risk-free card

OpenAI’s AgentKit marks a turning point in how developers build agentic AI workflows. By packaging everything, from visual workflow design to connector management and frontend integration, into a single environment, it removes many of the barriers that once made agent creation complex. That accessibility is also what makes it risky. Developers can now link powerful …

Report: AI hallucinates 27% of upgrade recommendations for open source projects

Open-source adoption is being accelerated by AI and automation, but developers need to proceed with caution to ensure they’re not introducing extra risk into their software supply chain. Brian Fox, co-founder and CTO of Sonatype, explained that AI can accelerate good engineering, but it can also scale mistakes faster, especially if it doesn’t have real-world …

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