Tag: microsoft
VS Code Is Becoming an Agent Control Plane — and Most Teams Haven’t Noticed Yet
Tom Smith | | agent debugging, agent orchestration platform, agent plugins, AI-assisted development, automation, browser tools, chat session forking, context compaction, control plane primitives, developer convenience, devops, Git repositories, governance layer, hooks, MCP servers, microsoft, organizational review workflows, Platform Engineer, plugin marketplace, policy enforcement, pull request reviews, release notes, security hooks, session memory, shared state, UI Testing, version control, versioned agent configuration, VS Code 1.110VS Code 1.110 ships agent plugins, hooks, and persistent memory. Microsoft is embedding control plane primitives into the IDE for AI agent governance ...
Microsoft Executives Warn AI Could Limit the Developer Talent Pipeline
Generative AI is transforming software development at remarkable speed. But in a new paper written by two Microsoft executives, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman, VP of the developer community, argue ...
A Blog Post About COBOL Just Cost IBM $30 Billion. Here’s What Actually Happened.
Tom Smith | | accenture, AI disruption, AI-assisted code analysis, Anthropic, application discovery, AWS, behavioral equivalence validation, Claude Code, COBOL modernization, COBOL to Java, Cognizant, data migration, dependency mapping, Enterprise software, IBM stock drop, IBM Z, legacy application transformation, legacy systems, mainframe modernization, market volatility, microsoft, OpenAI, systems integrators, Wall Street overreaction, watsonx Code Assistant for ZA single Anthropic blog post wiped billions off IBM’s market value—but the AI-driven COBOL modernization it described has existed for years. This is a case study in how AI hype, not fundamentals, ...
TypeScript 6.0 Sets Stage for Performance-Focused 7.0
Microsoft has released the beta of TypeScript 6.0, highlighting what the company describes as a transitional moment for the widely used programming language. The release will be the final version built on ...
‘PackageGate’ Vulnerabilities Can Let Attackers Bypass Shai-Hulud Defenses
Jeff Burt | | Aikido Security, Bun, Git dependency, github, Koi Security, microsoft, npm registry, PhantomRaven, PNPM, remote code execution, Shai-Hulud worm, supply chain attack, VLTIn the wake of the massive Shai-Hulud supply chain attack that ripped through npm late last year and compromised more than 700 packages and exposed 25,000 repositories, developers in the JavaScript world ...
VS Code Pushes Hard on AI Agents While Quietly Killing Free Code Completion
Tom Smith | | Agent HQ, Agent Sessions, agentic coding, AI agents, AI code completion, AI security, developer tools, devops, GitHub Copilot, IDE updates, IntelliCode deprecation, microsoft, prompt injection, software development, TypeScript 7, TypeScript Go compiler, Visual Studio Code, VS Code updateMicrosoft's VS Code update brings Agent HQ, TypeScript 7 preview, and kills free IntelliCode. What developers need to know about the latest changes ...
Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools
Jon Swartz | | AI coding, Anthropic, Bun, Claude Code, Enterprise AI, github, JavaScript, microsoft, Netflix, node.js, NVIDIA, open source, OpenAI, Salesforce, spotifyAnthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities -- further underscoring a significant push into developer tooling as it scales Claude Code, ...
Report: Microsoft, AWS and Google Atop Software Development Platform Heap
Mike Vizard | | AI in software development, application development, business value, competition in developer platforms, developer ecosystem, DevOps workflows, go-to-market execution, microsoft, platform innovation, Salesforce, Signal report, software development platforms, strategic vision, The Futurum GroupThe Futurum Group’s latest Signal report on Software Development Platforms names Microsoft, AWS, and Google as the top three providers, each achieving Elite status with scores above 90. Microsoft led across all ...
GitHub CEO To Step Down As Company Is More Tightly Embraced by Microsoft’s CoreAI Team
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup ...
Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA
Mitch Ashley | | AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini 2.5, GitHub Actions, GitHub Agent, Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI Studio, GPT-5, gpt‑oss, Llama 3, microsoft, Mistral, Mixtral, open source LLM, OpenAI, VS Code, WindsurfDevelopment rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and locally run open-source AI LLMs is accelerating ...
DevOps Meets Blazor in 2025: Streamlining .NET Web App Delivery for the Future
Blazor has become a mature, go-to technology for modern enterprise-grade .NET web apps, especially for teams already invested in Microsoft’s ecosystem. ...
Next Version of Grok Includes Advanced Coding Assistance: Reports
The newest Grok is expected to feature advanced coding assistance, a sign that owner Elon Musk is re-evaluating the chatbot's strategy after Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI released powerful new models that set ...
