OpenAI Kept Git and Rebuilt Everything Behind It
OpenAI has rebuilt the Git infrastructure behind its monorepo to handle the explosive growth in activity driven by Codex coding agents. Its new Rust-based backend, Pando, reduces median push latency by approximately 80% while moving nearly a petabyte of Git data daily. The project highlights why DevOps teams must rethink infrastructure designed for human developers as autonomous agents reshape software delivery.
Survey: Need for Speed Tops All Other AI Coding Metrics
A Uplevel survey of 428 engineering and technology leaders reveals a widening gap between AI coding adoption and the ability to measure its business value. While 96% believe AI is improving software development, just 4% have adopted new metrics, and growing code review demands threaten to undermine productivity gains.
Claude Code’s “Don’t Ask Again” Feature Creates Major Security Risk
Anthropic’s Claude Code has exposed thousands of passwords, API keys and other sensitive credentials through a feature created to simplify developers’ daily work, according to research from software security firm Apiiro. The researchers identified 2,539 distinct secrets across 1,994 public GitHub repositories, including credentials that could provide access to cloud infrastructure and enterprise applications. The […]
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 […]
Leah Adds Natural Language Harness to AI Software Factory
Leah has added Harness Builder to its Maestro platform, enabling professional developers and business users to create applications through natural language prompts. By combining AI agents, software factory workflows and governance controls, the company aims to simplify application development while helping organizations maintain security, consistency and oversight.
Blitzy Partners with Microsoft Frontier Company to Bring AI to Azure Workload Migrations
Blitzy, a provider of an artificial intelligence model that establishes the relationship between all the software artifacts in an IT environment, today announced it has allied with the Microsoft Frontier Company to help DevOps teams refactor existing applications in a way that makes it simpler to move them to the Microsoft Azure cloud service. As […]
Meta Acquires Conductor to Support Multi-Agent AI Coding
Meta has acquired AI coding startup Conductor, a deal that extends the social media giant’s developer tools portfolio as it competes with OpenAI and other leading AI vendors. Conductor’s platform enables software developers to manage multiple AI coding agents working on different tasks within a single project. While individual AI coding assistants can generate and […]
OpenAI Acquires Pierre Computer to Expand Codex, Challenge GitHub
OpenAI has announced plans to acquire developer tools startup Pierre Computer, a deal that will expand the capabilities of its Codex AI coding platform and position the company as a more direct competitor to Microsoft’s GitHub. The acquisition will bring Pierre’s Code Storage technology into Codex, enabling OpenAI to offer more of the infrastructure needed […]
Gas Town Builder: All AI Software Factories Are Bespoke
Gas Town creator Steve Yegge warns that AI-powered software factories are inherently bespoke and require ongoing human supervision. As autonomous agents take on more development tasks, DevOps teams must evolve into leaders capable of managing AI behavior, resolving conflicts and guiding software innovation.
Godfather of DevOps Advises Software Engineers to Brace for Agentic AI Impact
Patrick Debois, the godfather of DevOps and co-author of The DevOps Handbook who now serves as the product DevRel lead at Tessl, is advising DevOps teams to brace for a wave of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) engineering where more tasks are executed in parallel. Speaking at an AI DevCon event hosted by Tessl, Debois told […]
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 […]
Anthropic Calls for Leaner Harnesses for Agentic AI Development
Anthropic is advising DevOps teams to rely on lighter-weight harnesses to drive agentic engineering workflows to de-duplicate instructions in a way that ultimately reduces costs. Speaking today at an AI DevCon event hosted by Tessl, Nicolas Carmont Zaragoza, a member of the technical staff for Anthropic, told conference attendees that in many cases the harnesses […]
Tessl Adds Reusable Loops to AI Software Factory Platform
Tessl this week revealed it has added ready-to-use loops that DevOps teams can now invoke and customize to drive agentic engineering workflows. Speaking at the company’s AI DevCon event, Tessl CEO Guy Podjarny told conference attendees that the company is moving to make it simpler to combine AI skills and self-optimizing loops to create a […]
PagerDuty Launches Autonomous SRE Agent Paige to Combat AI-Driven Outages
Facing an unprecedented wave of software failures driven by artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing provider PagerDuty Inc. on Tuesday unveiled Paige, an autonomous Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) agent designed to diagnose and repair technical disruptions alongside human engineers. The announcement comes as enterprises confront a structural shift in enterprise IT. Software is increasingly written, tested, […]
GitLab Bets Context, Not Bigger Models, Will Fix AI Agent Costs
GitLab has launched Orbit, a context graph designed to give AI coding agents a more complete view of the software development lifecycle. With claims of up to 45x fewer hallucinations and 4.5x fewer tokens, GitLab is betting that better context, rather than bigger models, is the key to more reliable agentic development.
AI Coding Assistants’ Built-In Browsers Open a Path to Developer Secrets
Security researchers uncovered a class of embedded-browser vulnerabilities affecting five popular AI coding tools, including Cursor, Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop. The findings reveal how malicious pages can exploit trusted AI workflows to steal credentials, access local files and even persuade agents to disable their own safeguards.
DeepSeek Wants Coding Agents to Stop Waiting for Instructions
DeepSeek’s open-source Super-Agent prototype replaces isolated coding sessions with an always-on system that coordinates multiple AI workers, responds to development events and can initiate bug fixes without direct prompting. For DevOps teams, the promise of autonomous development brings new challenges around permissions, pipeline security, observability and code verification.
IBM Extends Scope and Reach of DevSecOps Workflows in the AI Era
IBM is expanding its Terraform infrastructure-as-code platform and Bob AI coding assistant with new policy-as-code capabilities, automated vulnerability remediation and AI governance integrations. Announced at IBM TechXchange 2026, the updates aim to help DevSecOps teams securely manage infrastructure and accelerate software delivery as AI agents become more deeply embedded in development workflows.
Malicious Claude Code Extension Affects Up to 5,000 Cursor Users
Cursor has disclosed a security incident involving malicious versions of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension that attempted to install a persistent backdoor on developers’ computers. The company initially estimated that up to 5,000 users could have been affected, highlighting the security risks associated with compromised software development tools. The compromised extension packages, identified as Anthropic.claude-code versions […]
Black Duck Adds AI Agent to Triage and Fix Vulnerabilities
Black Duck this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its portfolio that triages vulnerabilities and then generates and validates fixes for DevSecOps teams to review before applying them. Patrick Carey, vice president of product marketing for Black Duck, said the Signal Agentic Fix agent leverages the company’s static application security testing (SAST) and […]
Endor Labs Adds AI Tool to Generate Fixes for Open Source Vulnerabilities
Endor Labs this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to its portfolio that evaluates every reachable open source vulnerability against a code context graph to generate fixes that typically require only 10 lines of code to be generated and applied. Joe Harrington, a principal product manager for Endor Labs, said AURI Fix for Open […]
Two GitHub Campaigns, One Weak Point: Stolen Developer Credentials
Two separate GitHub attack campaigns, Gheist and Testmetest, exploited stolen developer credentials to steal secrets, compromise workflows and target software supply chains. The attacks reveal dangerous blind spots in GitHub Actions security, repository scanning and AI coding assistant configurations.
Amazon Warns Engineers Against Tokenmaxxing as AI Costs Mount
Amazon has issued new guidelines for its software engineers that discourage excessive use of AI tools simply to boost productivity metrics, signaling a shift in how the company evaluates AI’s contribution to software development. The guidelines address tokenmaxxing, a practice in which employees use huge volumes of AI tokens to demonstrate their use of the […]