The UK government’s recent trial of AI coding assistants has delivered striking headline figures — developers reporting almost an hour saved per working day, equivalent to roughly 28 working days a year — but the programme also exposes the tough trade‑offs that come with rapid AI adoption in...
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Source code management is no longer a niche developer convenience — it is the central nervous system of modern software delivery, and choosing the right system in 2025 determines how fast teams ship, how well they secure supply chains, and how easily they scale across distributed workforces and...
FreeBSD’s core team has decided to take a cautious, deliberate path on generative AI: investigate and codify limits rather than open the gates to LLM‑authored commits, and in doing so it has joined a short but growing list of major open‑source projects that are treating AI‑generated code as a...
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Elon Musk’s xAI has stepped into the agentic coding ring with Grok Code Fast 1, a new model the company is pitching as a speed-focused, budget-friendly assistant for real-world developer workflows — one optimized to call tools, edit files, and iterate inside IDEs with minimal lag. The...
Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tightens the reins on GitHub Copilot, giving developers explicit control over when suggestions appear, how much of a suggestion to accept, and whether predictive edits should interrupt their flow—changes that reshape Copilot from an always‑on assistant...
Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-5 inside Visual Studio via GitHub Copilot, bringing OpenAI’s newest coding model to paid Copilot users and promising faster responses, stronger reasoning on large problems, and clearer, more maintainable code suggestions that can handle end-to-end engineering...
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Microsoft’s Visual Studio has long stood at the center of professional software development, renowned for its deep integration with .NET and extensive tooling that supports everything from application lifecycle management to debugging enterprise-grade projects. While Visual Studio Code (VS Code)...
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Open source software has long been championed as a beacon of superior security in the software landscape, often celebrated for its transparency, the rigour of peer review, and the almost mythic effect of "many eyeballs" catching bugs before they do harm. This foundational belief, rooted in the...
Microsoft’s embrace of artificial intelligence for internal code review is rewriting the rulebook for software development at scale. In what represents a significant milestone in enterprise deployment of generative AI, the tech giant revealed that its in-house AI-powered code review assistant...
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Amazon’s software engineers are finding themselves at the nexus of an unprecedented transformation, as artificial intelligence redefines not only how code is written, but what it means to be a developer in one of the world’s largest and most influential tech companies. Once characterized by...
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If you believed artificial intelligence coding assistants peaked back in 2023, you haven’t been paying attention—or maybe you were burned by the baseless hype. Like many an over-promoted rookie, Microsoft Copilot emerged swinging wildly, making plenty of promises but connecting with precious...