New benchmarks show semantic code graphs helping coding agents find change locations faster and complete updates more ...

In “The Ghost in the Machine” [From the Editor], David M. Ewalt writes that he talked to an artificial intelligence, which then transcribed and assembled what he said into the column. He then asks, ...

Project Valhalla’s value classes are heading to JDK 28, a 197,000-line change that rewrites how Java handles object identity. Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement ...

Boris Cherny is the creator of Anthropic’s Claude Code tool, which writes code on behalf of developers based on a text prompt. Cherny hasn’t handwritten code in eight months; instead, he manages ...

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Cursor says the biggest productivity gains in AI coding are being made by developers who can orchestrate autonomous agents, not just prompt chatbots. But there’s a downside to the genuine leap: ...

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...

Generative AI agents produced 600,000 lines of code and ran 850 experiments to secure first place in a Kaggle competition. Here's how they did it. In March 2026, a team leveraging generative AI agents ...

Science is becoming increasingly computational. Experimental data must be logged, cleaned, checked and analysed. Data analysis often involves iterative trial and ...

There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with ...

Snap is laying off roughly 16% of its global workforce, impacting around 1,000 full-time employees, according to a memo sent to staff from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Wednesday. The company cites ...

Layoffs follow Irenic Capital's push for cost cuts and portfolio optimization Snap expects $500 million in annualized savings by second half of 2026 AI advances reduce repetitive work, allows company ...