New Relic Debuts Command-Line Observability Tool for Developers and AI Agents
New Relic has unveiled Ground Truth CLI, a command-line tool that enables software developers and AI agents to analyze system performance and verify whether technical issues have been resolved without needing to use dashboards. The release reflects a big shift in enterprise IT as AI agents take on more advanced troubleshooting tasks. Traditional observability dashboards […]
Docsy for AI Agents, Oh, and People Too
Google’s Docsy is joining the Linux Foundation as AI agents become documentation readers. Prague — When I grew up in programming, if you didn’t understand something in the code or operating system, you were told to Read The Fine (Ah, yeah, fine) Manual (RTFM). Of course, back then we actually had manuals and documentation. Since […]
Harness Acquires Augment Code Assets to Expand Reach into AI Coding
Harness today added an artificial intelligence (AI) coding offering to its portfolio after revealing it acquired select assets from Augment Code. The Harness Cosmos Software Factory is based on Cosmos, a set of AI coding agents, an Auggie command line interface (CLI), a Code Context Engine and other related technologies originally developed by Augment Code. […]
Secrets Sprawl and Rotation: A Practical Vault Management Playbook
In 2025 alone, security firm GitGuardian detected 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets exposed in public GitHub commits — a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump the company has recorded in five years of publishing its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. Since 2021, that number has grown 152%, far outpacing the […]
AI Is Taking on Entry-Level Engineering Work. Who Trains the Young Engineers?
When I started my career on a support desk, I dealt with failed logins, missing permissions and recurring system errors every day. The work was repetitive, but repetition taught me to spot patterns, test assumptions and look beyond the symptom a user reported. Over time, I was resolving around 90% of incidents at first contact. […]
How to Move AI SRE Agents From Demo to Production
An AI agent that works on an engineer’s laptop can feel like a breakthrough. It can read logs, query observability tools, inspect cloud resources and connect a failed deployment to a bad configuration change in minutes. For a single investigation, under close human supervision, that is real progress. It is also the easy part. The […]
Base44 Unveils AI Platform to Transform Application Development
Base44 this week unfurled a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to foster greater collaboration between software engineers, application designers and product management teams. Yoav Orlev, chief product officer for Base44, said at the core of the Base Code platform is a harness the company developed that enables multiple AI models to be used […]
IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall
Plenty of enterprises want AI coding agents. Fewer are willing to send their source code to someone else’s cloud to get them. That tension has slowed adoption at banks, insurers, government agencies and other organizations that build software under strict rules about where code and data can live. IBM is betting a self-hosted option will […]
AWS AI Agent Surfaces Recommendations to Optimize Cloud Computing Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that surfaces recommendations to optimize cost, security, performance and resilience based on the business objectives an organization defines. Jill Fariss, vice president of AWS Support, said the AWS Well-Architected Agent generates code that can be implemented via a command line […]
Survey Surfaces Sharp Increase in Amount of Code Written by AI
A global survey of 705 developers and IT leaders finds 42% of respondents reporting that artificial intelligence (AI) now writes at least half their code, with only 21% of developers now spending more than half their week writing new code from scratch. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the survey also finds […]
A Semicolon in a Branch Name Was All It Took to Steal an AI Agent’s GitHub Token
AI coding agents don’t just suggest code anymore. Tools like OpenAI’s Codex spin up a real container, clone a real repository, and authenticate with a real GitHub credential to get the job done — which means every agent your team wires up is also a new privileged identity, holding real access, running with comparatively little […]
Perforce Applies Machine Learning to Generate Synthetic Data for App Testing
Perforce Software has added a tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler for application development teams to generate synthetic data for application testing purposes. Mayank Ahluwalia, a senior product manager for Perforce Delphix, said Delphix Synthetic Data makes use of machine learning algorithms to generate synthetic data for specific use cases. It […]
AWS Benchmark Aims to Reduce Number of False Positives Found by AI Vulnerability Scanners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a benchmark that can be used to test whether a model can distinguish real vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is actually safe. The Deception Benchmark was created following an evaluation of the capabilities of 12 models from five different providers. In all, the benchmark includes 14,822 samples […]
env zero Previews Control Plane for Agentic DevOps Workflows
env zero’s EZ Control introduces an agentic DevOps control plane that detects infrastructure drift, applies policy-driven remediation and keeps automated changes attributable, reversible and auditable.
Docker Introduces Open Sandbox Kit Spec for AI Agent Permissions
AI agents are getting good at probing the boundaries developers put around them. Their ability to improvise makes them hard to contain. “You ask for something in a very high-level, vague-at-best way. You walk away, and you come back to a remarkable pile of mostly working software. But you then realize that you gave a […]
DHH Declares End of Hand-Writing Code at Rails World 2026
Controversial developer David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) announced last week at Rails World 2026 that the end of handwritten code is upon us, calling it the modern era’s “Brownie” moment. The moment to which he referred was when Kodak released its Brownie camera that forever changed the trajectory of photography. In this case, the Brownie […]
Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost
Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial […]
Why Plan Review Stopped Working
The control that held your infrastructure together was plan review, meaning a person reading a diff and deciding whether to approve it. Not the policy document and not the pipeline configuration. It worked because change arrived at human speed. That condition no longer holds. An agent opens 40 pull requests before lunch. Reviewers approve them […]
Talentica Software Unfurls Managed AI Service to Optimize Software Delivery
Talentica Software this week launched a managed software delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enable DevOps teams to deploy applications developed using AI coding tools at scale. Company CTO Manjusha Madabushi said the DevX AI Pods service makes use of a set of AI agents that Talentica has trained to provide the context […]
AWS Adds Harness to Open Source SDK for Building AI Agents
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week revealed it has added a harness to the open source software development kit (SDK) it makes available for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents. First introduced last year, the Strands SDK makes it simpler for application developers to use AI models to build and deploy AI agents. The Strands harness […]
Cycode Extends DevSecOps Reach to Software Packages Developers Download
Cycode is adding workstation-level protection to stop developers and AI coding agents from downloading malicious or insufficiently vetted software packages.
GitLab Tightens Rate Limits as Coding Agents Drive Demand
GitLab is introducing new rate limits for its cloud-based DevOps platform as growing demand from AI agents and automated development tools increases pressure on its infrastructure. The changes, which begin October 19, will restrict the volume of requests users can send to GitLab.com based on their subscription plans. Free-tier customers and users making unauthenticated requests […]
US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers
A federal appeals court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI an important win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code. As we all know, all the AI code-generating programs learned their lessons largely from open-source code. So a group of anonymous open-source plaintiffs argued that GitHub Copilot and […]