Automated Diagnosis Isn’t Automated Understanding: What Postmortems Teach Us About Building Trustworthy Incident AI
AI incident tools can reduce alert noise, but real root-cause diagnosis requires causal reasoning, live dependency context, uncertainty handling and strong postmortem data.
AI Can Generate Your Infrastructure. Can Your CI/CD Pipeline Trust It?
AI-generated infrastructure code is exposing a growing security gap, pushing platform teams to add stronger automated gates, provenance tracking and human review before Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD changes reach production.
Your AI Coding Budget Is Becoming a Variable Cloud Bill
AI coding assistants are becoming a variable, usage-based engineering cost, forcing platform and DevOps teams to apply FinOps practices to models, credits, utilization and multi-vendor spend.
CI/CD for AI-Enabled Applications: Why Traditional Deployment Pipelines Need to Evolve
Traditional CI/CD pipelines are optimized around a familiar assumption: source code changes, automated tests validate the change, a build artifact is produced, and the application is promoted through environments. AI-enabled applications complicate that model because production behavior can change even when application code does not. A new model version, feature transformation, prompt configuration, retrieval index […]
The AI Agent Race Is On. But Are We Watching the Right Race?
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and a growing field of challengers are competing to define the future of software development. A new Techstrong special report examines who is ahead, how the race should be measured and what enterprises need to consider before placing their bets. Which AI coding agent is winning? It sounds […]
Why “Tokenmaxxing” Was Always the Wrong Way for Developers to Measure AI Productivity
The term “tokenmaxxing” left the developer lexicon just as quickly as it arrived, and like most viral technology concepts, it means different things depending on who’s using it. In practice, the term is being applied in two ways: maximizing total token consumption as a proxy for AI adoption and effort, or optimizing output per token […]
Dash0 Acquires Polar Signals for Continuous Profiling and GPU Visibility
Observability startup Dash0 announced this week that it acquired Berlin-based continuous profiling specialist Polar Signals. The deal adds continuous profiling to SignalStore, Dash0’s OpenTelemetry-native data platform. Continuous profiling has been part of the developer toolbox for years and provides teams with an ongoing view of where running applications spend CPU time, allocate memory and consume […]
AI Agents Are Writing Code Faster Than Anyone Can Review It. Tessl Is Betting On Standards To Close That Gap
Every team that has turned coding agents loose on real work has run into the same wall. The agents write fast. They write a lot. And somewhere between the tenth and twentieth pull request of the day, the humans responsible for reviewing that code start falling behind. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s the operating reality […]
Critical Flaw in isolated-vm Can Lead to Sandbox Escape, RCE Threat
Developers for years have been using vm2, an open-source Node.js library, to run untrusted JavaScript inside a secure and isolated sandbox environment. It uses Node.js’s built-in modules and JavaScript Proxies and lets developers whitelist particular built-in Node modules or limit what the script can access. During that time, vm2 has been the default for safely […]
Elevating Technical Documentation: Using Predictive AI to Standardize Visual Knowledge Bases
Every release changes documentation alongside the code. Developers depend on that documentation during implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting. A diagram becomes misleading once services are renamed or integrations change without a corresponding documentation update. Keeping documentation updated becomes increasingly difficult as repositories, products and release cycles grow. Outdated or inconsistent images eventually find their way into […]
Why Self-Healing Tests Need a Deployment Gate
When an end-to-end test fails after a front-end change, the repair often looks routine. A class name changed. A button moved. A selector that used to be unique now matches two elements. A self-healing system inspects the page, proposes a new locator, reruns the test, and gets a green result. That green result is useful, […]
Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting Platform as GitHub Rival
AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into a market long dominated by GitHub. The rollout arrived as GitHub suffered a major outage lasting more than six hours, disrupting pull requests, […]
LangChain’s dcode Isn’t New. Its Governance Play for Sensitive Code Is
Enterprises are running into the same wall with AI coding agents: the tools that write code fastest are usually the ones IT trusts least with sensitive codebases. Legacy modernization projects — COBOL migrations, .NET upgrades, decade-old frameworks nobody wants to touch by hand — are exactly where agentic coding tools could help most, and exactly […]
Harness Adds AI Agents to Automate DevSecOps Workflows at Machine Speed
Harness today added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents and a virtual patching capability to its portfolio to automate DevSecOps workflows at a time when the number of vulnerabilities being discovered in code continues to exponentially increase. The AI agents include one that has been added to the static application security testing (SAST) tool that Harness […]
Developer Resistance to AI Isn’t Fear – It is Identity
Developer resistance to AI is less about job loss than a deeper shift from hands-on coding to supervising, validating and orchestrating AI-generated work.
Arm Adds AI Tool to Optimize Workloads Using Runtime Data
Arm has made available a Dynamic Insights tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate recommendations for optimizing software running on its processors using actual data collected at runtime. Alex Spinelli, senior vice president for AI and developer platforms at Arm, said the Dynamic Insights tool provides both human developers and AI agents with […]
The Agent Proposes, the Pipeline Disposes: Controls for AI-Authored Change
When agents write code and open pull requests faster than humans can read them, ‘the diff looked fine’ stops being a control. The durable controls live outside the agent’s reasoning loop.
What You Cannot See Will Break Your LLM App: A Practitioner Guide to Production Observability
Traditional application observability was built around a simple mental model: Your code runs, metrics come out and when something breaks, the logs tell you why. Large language models (LLMs) break that model in ways that are not obvious until you have shipped one and watched it misbehave in production. An LLM-powered application can be up, […]
LiteLLM Attack Affected 2,500 Companies, 434,000 CI/CD Pipelines: CloudSEK
The massive supply-chain attack that compromised LiteLLM in the spring affected more than 2,500 companies and exposed about 434,000 CI/CD pipelines, with victims ranging from top-tier IT and AI companies to cybersecurity firms, SaaS, and enterprises. It rolled up a lot of victims, but also was a high-profile example of the growing trend of threat […]
Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Production Issues Traced Back to AI Code
A survey of 400 business and engineering executives finds 80% have traced a production incident, outage, or customer-impacting defect to code generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the past 12 months. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Sauce Labs, a provider of an application testing platform, the survey finds 83% of respondents work […]
The Rise of AI-Native DevOps: How AI Is Reshaping Software Delivery in 2026
For years, DevOps had a pretty straightforward mission: help teams ship reliable software faster by getting development and operations folks working together. Tools like automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and better observability have all been key pieces of the puzzle. But now, things are shifting again. This time, artificial intelligence is changing […]
Microsoft’s New Testing Agent Tackles the Trust Gap in AI-Generated Code
AI coding assistants write code fast. Whether that code can be trusted is a separate question, and it’s becoming a more urgent one. Surveys this year put average developer trust in AI-generated output at just above the midpoint of a five-point scale, and more than half of developers admit they ship AI code without testing […]
‘Flooding Dropper’ Is Hitting npm With a Tidal Wave of Malicious Packages
Threat researchers at Sonatype are warning developers of an expanding campaign that is generating a wide range of npm accounts and dropping small numbers of malicious packages from each one, essentially flooding the zone with a broadly distributed and automated campaign to make it difficult for defenders to keep up. So far, the campaign – […]