Cursor’s Composer 2.5 Brings Smarter, More Reliable AI Coding Agents
AI-assisted coding tools are getting a meaningful upgrade. Cursor has released Composer 2.5, the latest version of its proprietary coding agent model, and the improvements go well beyond a version bump. Composer 2.5 is described as a substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over its predecessor, Composer 2. It handles sustained work on long-running tasks […]
CI/CD Was Built for Deterministic Software — Agents Just Broke the Model
CI/CD was built around a comforting idea: Software should do tomorrow what it did today, assuming the inputs are the same. That assumption sits underneath a lot of modern DevOps. It is why we have build pipelines, test suites, artifact repositories, deployment gates, rollback strategies, infrastructure-as-code and all the other machinery that turned software delivery […]
Microsoft Copilot Studio Brings Computer-Using Agents to the Enterprise
For years, IT and DevOps teams have wrestled with the same stubborn problem: how do you automate workflows in systems that were never built for automation? Legacy apps, vendor portals, and proprietary line-of-business platforms rarely offer APIs. That means someone, usually a human, ends up clicking through screens, entering data, and completing transactions by hand. […]
Copado Brings AI Agents to DevOps Platform for Building Custom Salesforce Apps
Copado has added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps platform for building and deploying custom applications for the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce. At launch, Copado is making available Agentia AI agents specifically that can be assigned plan, build and testing tasks via an orchestration agent that manages the overall workflow. Each Agentia […]
AWS Security Agent Brings Full Repository Code Scanning to Preview
Security teams have long relied on static analysis tools to catch vulnerabilities before code ships. Those tools are useful, but they have a fundamental limitation: they match code against known patterns. They don’t understand your application. AWS is taking a different approach with its latest addition to AWS Security Agent. The company recently released full […]
Red Hat Previews AI Agent Integration with Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat today revealed it is extending the reach of its Ansible Automation Platform for IT operations to artificial intelligence (AI) agents, in addition to making it simpler to build AI agents using existing application development tools. Announced at the Red Hat Summit conference, version 2.7 of the Ansible Automation Platform adds a technology preview […]
Why Senior Engineers Still Do Manual Work in Highly Automated Environments
Automation has been part of enterprise IT for many years, and in many environments, it has grown into an extensive network of interdependent workflows that keep routine operations running smoothly. Scripts provision accounts, automated workflows manage cloud resources, orchestration tools coordinate ITSM processes, and AI-driven tools help employees across the organization complete tasks more efficiently. […]
Incredibuild Unveils Islo Sandbox to Isolate AI Coding Agents
Incredibuild this week developed a sandbox, dubbed Islo, that makes it possible to safely run artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents. Company CEO Shimon Hason said Islo provides an isolated execution environment that enables DevOps teams to limit access to sensitive data, codebases, resources and services. Each AI coding agent is then provided with its own […]
Arm Adds Free Toolkit to Analyze AI Agent Performance
Arm this week made available a free toolkit for analyzing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workloads as they are being developed by DevOps and platform engineering teams. Earlier this year, Arm unveiled a 3nm processor based on its Neoverse V3 architecture that is specifically designed for AI workloads. The Arm Performix toolkit provides system-wide analysis across […]
IBM Bob Takes AI Coding Assistants to the Next Level
IBM Bob goes beyond AI-assisted coding to support the full software development lifecycle — with governance, security, and multi-model orchestration built in.
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 […]
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 […]
Embracing the MCP Suck: Taming the Wild West of AI Protocols
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is moving faster than the developer community can keep up with, racing past its original design parameters and leaving teams scrambling to build clients that can match its pace. The result is an ecosystem where the protocol itself keeps shifting under everyone’s feet, and where the tooling, conventions and security […]
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 […]
Leapwork Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Deterministic Test Automation Platform
Leapwork this week revealed it is infusing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into its test automation platforms to enable continuous validation across application testing workflows. Company CTO Rohit Raghuvansi said that as the pace of application development accelerates in the age of AI, it’s become apparent that test validation has become an even bigger software […]
Broadcom Adds AI Agent Runtime to Tanzu PaaS Environment
Broadcom today revealed it has added a runtime to its Tanzu platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment that makes it possible to securely build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Based on the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS environment being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Tanzu PaaS is optimized to be […]
Agentic CI/CD is Not Automation: Why the Distinction Will Define DevOps in 2026
There is a dangerous conflation happening across our industry right now. Teams are plugging LLM-powered agents into their deployment pipelines, calling it “agentic CI/CD,” and treating it as the next logical step after shell scripts and Terraform modules. It is not. Automation executes predefined instructions. An agent reasons about context, makes decisions, and takes actions […]
Claude Code Can Now Run Your Desktop
Anthropic moves beyond the chat window with full computer control — and the implications for developers and enterprise teams are significant.
DBmaestro Introduces Agentic Database DevOps with MCP Server
Transforming Natural Language into Governed Platform Workflows Orlando, FL, April 7, 2026 – DBmaestro, the leading database DevSecOps platform, today announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, making DBmaestro the first database DevOps platform purpose-built for agentic AI workflows. The DBmaestro MCP server exposes the company’s industry-leading database release automation, source control, […]
Survey Surfaces Rising Tide of Investments in Observability
A survey of 628 enterprise IT leaders conducted by the Futurum Group finds well over a third (36%) plan on spending more than $1 million on observability in 2026, with 7% planning to spend in excess of $5 million. Mitch Ashley, vice president and practice lead for software lifecycle engineering at the Futurum Group, said […]
Apica Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Telemetry Data
Apica today updated its Ascent platform to add support for synthetic data that is increasingly being used by artificial intelligence (AI) agents to observe application environments. Version 2.16 of the platform adds support for a set of real user monitoring (RUM) and service level objective (SLO) dashboards, an ability to correlate changes made to any […]
Giving AI Agents the Keys to Real Infrastructure
AI coding assistants can generate pull requests faster than most teams can review them, and that mismatch is creating a new kind of bottleneck across engineering organizations. The volume of AI-generated code is growing rapidly, but without a reliable way to validate that code against real production environments, teams are left choosing between slowing down […]
AWS Makes Pair of AI Agents to Automate DevOps Tasks Available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to manage DevOps workflows and conduct penetration tests generally available. Neha Goswami, director of Agentic DevOps at AWS, said AWS DevOps Agent provides software engineering teams with an always-available assistant that can automatically optimize application reliability and performance in addition to automating […]