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Google CEO Says 75% of New Code is AI-Generated

The era of the “human-only” software engineer is rapidly receding into the rearview mirror. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Wednesday that a whopping 75% of the company’s new code is now generated by artificial intelligence (AI), marking a major shift in how the tech giant builds its products. The velocity of this transition has caught […]

Jon Swartz · Apr 29, 2026
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When AI Goes Really, Really Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data

You can’t make this crap up. You just wish you could. Jer Crane, founder of the small vertical software company, PocketOS, reported on X that the AI Cursor coding agent and a Railway backup misconfiguration combined to briefly wipe out the company’s car‑rental customer production data. Not some of the data. All of it. That’s […]

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols · Apr 28, 2026
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5 Facts About AI Coding Agents from Comprehensive Benchmarking

AI coding agents are becoming more capable, but evaluating them is harder than it looks. Most benchmarks focus on a single dimension of agent capabilities; for instance, the popular SWE-Bench benchmark only focuses on fixing issues on open source Python repositories. Real-world software engineering involves fixing bugs of course, but it is a lot more […]

Graham Neubig · Apr 28, 2026
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GitHub Faces Scaling Issues as AI Development Surges

It appears that GitHub has its hands full adjusting to the demands of scaling AI workloads. First, the company paused sign-ups for its Copilot subscription tiers in response to a wave of demand from agentic AI projects. Then it shifted to usage-based pricing to, again, better align revenue with the heavy compute demands of AI […]

James Maguire · Apr 28, 2026
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OpenAI Debuts Symphony to Orchestrate Coding Agents at Scale

OpenAI has unveiled Symphony, an open-source specification that shifts how software development teams deploy AI in workflows, moving from interactive coding assistance toward continuous orchestration of autonomous agents. Symphony reframes project management tools as operational hubs for AI-driven coding. Rather than prompting an assistant for individual tasks, developers assign work through issue trackers, allowing agents […]

James Maguire · Apr 28, 2026
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The Next AI Breakthrough Isn’t Generative, It’s Agentic

Generative AI first captured the world’s attention by producing content at an unprecedented speed. From lines of code and documentation to frameworks and designs, content creation is now readily available at the click of a button. But the initial excitement around generative AI’s capabilities has given way to a new enterprise reality. As organizations move […]

Lee McClendon · Apr 28, 2026
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GitHub Resets Copilot Pricing as AI Compute Costs Surge

The development community saw this one coming: GitHub will transition its Copilot service to a usage-based billing model on June 1, replacing its existing system of fixed subscriptions supplemented by premium request limits. As reported last week, GitHub suspended new sign-ups for several of its Copilot subscription tiers as it faced a surge in demand […]

James Maguire · Apr 27, 2026
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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Apr 27, 2026
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Microsoft Turns to Anthropic’s Mythos to Improve Cyber Defense

Microsoft has unveiled plans to incorporate Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview model and other AI models into its Security Development Lifecycle, embedding AI directly into the stages where code is written and tested. Rather than relying primarily on static analysis tools, Microsoft is adopting AI models capable of analyzing code dynamically and identifying complex vulnerabilities that […]

James Maguire · Apr 24, 2026
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Claude’s Code Quality Conundrum Continues

Anthropic admits to a month-long degradation in Claude’s output due to reasoning “effort” tradeoffs, cache bugs, and verbosity prompts. As Opus 4.7 rolls out with mixed developer reviews, the company is doubling down on “frontier safety” with the restricted Mythos model while leaning on high-profile advisors like Rishi Sunak to navigate global AI regulation.

Adrian Bridgwater · Apr 24, 2026
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GitHub Halts Copilot Growth as AI Coding Costs Outpace Subscriptions

GitHub has suspended new sign-ups for several of its Copilot subscription tiers, a decision that follows a surge in demand driven by agentic coding workflows, which consume far more compute resources than earlier models of AI assistance. The company confirmed that new subscriptions for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused, while existing users […]

James Maguire · Apr 22, 2026
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Musk’s SpaceX Targets AI Dominance with $60 Billion Cursor Deal

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, pay $10 billion for a collaborative partnership. The announcement, made Tuesday via Musk’s social media platform X, positions the newly formed “SpaceXAI” to challenge […]

Jon Swartz · Apr 22, 2026
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SUSE Extends AI Agent Reach via MCP Server Integration

SUSE collaborates with AWS, n8n, and others to enable AI agents to manage IT infrastructure via Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations in Rancher Prime and SUSE Multi-Linux Manager.

Mike Vizard · Apr 22, 2026
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Critical Microsoft GitHub Flaw Highlights Dangers to CI/CD Pipelines: Tenable

A critical vulnerability in a popular Microsoft GitHub repository could allow a threat actor to easily exploit its CI/CD infrastructure to run arbitrary code in the repository and gain access to secrets, according to researchers with cybersecurity firm Tenable. In an advisory issued April 21, Rémy Marot, staff research engineer at Tenable, wrote that “by […]

Jeff Burt · Apr 21, 2026
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DevOps Experience 2026: The DevOps Community Confronts the Agentic AI Race

Agentic AI is rapidly entering DevOps pipelines, platform engineering platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. DevOps Experience 2026 brings the community together to decide which tools matter, how they should be governed and what comes next. The DevOps ecosystem is entering one of its most consequential transitions since the rise of CI/CD. Across the industry, vendors are […]

Alan Shimel · Apr 21, 2026
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Grafana Labs Extends Observability Reach Deeper Into AI

Grafana Labs debuts Grafana 13, a specialized AI application observability platform, and an MCP-powered AI agent at GrafanaCON 2026 to streamline telemetry across complex cloud-native environments.

Mike Vizard · Apr 21, 2026