Yes, We Know AI Isn’t a Person
Let’s get the obvious out of the way right up front. AI isn’t a person. Thank you, Captain Obvious. We’re all on the same page. And yet, when we announced that AI is Techstrong’s “Person of the Year” for our Predict 2026 virtual event on January 15, a few folks felt compelled to remind us […]
Your AI Agents Have a Blind Spot: What DevOps Teams Need to Know About Cross-LLM Security
Explore the challenges of AI agents in DevOps pipelines, highlighting the importance of model-aware detection to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities.
Lessons from 2025: The Year “Agent Mitigation” Became a Thing
Explore the emergence of agent mitigation as a formal discipline in response to 2025’s AI failures, highlighting best practices for secure and reliable AI agent deployment.
Part 3: The Zero-Touch Infrastructure: Architecting Systems That Fix Themselves
Part 3: Discover how autonomous SRE transforms incident management and system reliability, enabling self-healing systems that reduce reliance on human intervention.
Part 2: From Reactive to Predictive: Training LLMs on Your Incident History
Part 2: Discover how to harness incident history and AI to predict and prevent operational issues before they escalate, improving efficiency in Site Reliability Engineering.
Part 1: Death of the Toil: How AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Runbooks
Part one of a three-part series: Discover how AI-driven reasoning agents are revolutionizing SRE practices by eliminating traditional toil and enhancing incident management.
Cursor Allies with 1Password to Secure AI Coding Secrets
Cursor has partnered with 1Password to better protect secrets as applications are developed using an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool. Nancy Wang, senior vice president and head of engineering for 1Password, said a Hooks Script provides application developers with a secure, just-in-time way to ensure only required secrets are made available to Cursor AI agents […]
Beyond the Prompt: A Quality-First Framework for AI-Assisted Engineering
Discover strategies for managing AI-generated technical debt and maintaining quality in software delivery as engineering teams accelerate their development processes.
Meta Introduces Confucius Code Agent: A New Approach to AI-Powered Software Engineering
Explore the Confucius Code Agent by Meta and Harvard, designed to enhance productivity in software engineering with a focus on agent architecture and operational performance.
DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report
DeepSeek is preparing to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V4, in mid-February, according to a report in The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans. The upcoming release marks the Chinese startup’s first major model update since its R1 reasoning model in January 2025 sparked global attention and sent […]
Ready or Not, AI is Rewriting the Rules for Software Testing
Discover how the emergence of autonomous AI agents is revolutionizing software quality assurance, emphasizing behavior validation, MLOps, and dynamic testing frameworks.
Eficode Unifies Operations to Join AI Software Development Landgrab
The march to build comprehensive software application development platforms aligned and optimized for the AI-first era is running at a breakneck pace. Latest to join the current land grab and pledge allegiance to the delivery of high-value AI-driven outcomes is Helsinki, Finland-based Eficode. Pronounced (exactly as it sounds) Eficode in American English, but presumably given […]
From Automation to Autonomy: What AIOps Actually Looks Like Today
For years, engineering leaders have been promised that automation would shrink operational work. CI/CD pipelines, runbooks, chatbots and DevOps tooling were supposed to mean reduced tickets, fewer incidents and fewer 3 a.m. pages. Instead, operational load has exploded. Systems are more distributed, dependencies are more tangled and customer expectations are less forgiving. What’s changed recently […]
AI is the new Junior Engineer
Real AI gains don’t come from hype or pilots. They come from teams with strong teaching, mentoring and engineering culture already in place.
Cursor Acquires Graphite to Streamline AI-Powered Development
Cursor, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant valued at $29 billion, has acquired code review startup Graphite to address what Cursor CEO Michael Truell describes as a growing bottleneck in software development. The companies declined to disclose financial terms but confirmed the transaction involves a mix of cash and equity. While AI has dramatically accelerated […]
Surprise! Everybody Uses AI Tools for Software Development, Few Do So Securely
AI is generating code faster than teams can secure it, widening software supply chain risk and exposing major gaps in AppSec and governance.
Harnessing ChatOps to Solve Enterprise-Wide Communication Challenges
ChatOps helps DevOps teams streamline communication by executing workflows directly in chat. Learn the benefits, use cases, and best practices for enterprise ChatOps adoption.
Feeding the Beast: Why Giving Your Code to AI Agents Might Be Your Biggest Mistake Yet
Your codebase isn’t food, but AI agents are more than happy to devour it. Teams keep handing over entire repositories because automation feels like a cheat code for productivity. The problem shows up later, when those same agents behave like overeager interns copying the wrong patterns, amplifying your technical debt or quietly leaking sensitive logic into their […]
Real-Time Anomaly Detection: Integrating Log Service With Agentic AI Pipelines
Learn how agentic AI and real-time anomaly detection create self-healing DevOps pipelines. This guide covers architectures, code examples, and metrics to cut MTTR by up to 90%.
Analysis Surfaces Rising Wave of Software Defects Traced to AI Coding Tools
An analysis of 470 real-world open source pull requests published today finds code generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools introduces significantly more defects across every major category of software quality, including logic, maintainability, security, and performance, compared to human-authored code. Conducted by CodeRabbit, a provider of a platform that employs AI to review code, the […]
Why Your AI Agent Strategy is Failing (and How to Fix It): The Microservices Playbook for AI Agents
Despite billions in AI investment and countless vendor promises, most enterprises are still treating AI agents like glorified copilots rather than autonomous systems. After working with numerous enterprise customers implementing AI agents across various industries, a pattern has emerged: The companies finding real success aren’t the ones building the biggest, most ambitious agents — they’re the ones treating agents as microservices. As of […]
VS Code Pushes Hard on AI Agents While Quietly Killing Free Code Completion
Microsoft’s VS Code update brings Agent HQ, TypeScript 7 preview, and kills free IntelliCode. What developers need to know about the latest changes.
3 Notable Software Development Trends for 2026 and Beyond
Explore the key software development trends for 2026, including AI-enabled development, low-code platforms, and talent density maximization shaping modern SDLCs.