Getting to Reliable AI-Driven Development
To truly transform software delivery with AI, organizations must embrace a spec-driven approach. By grounding AI in clear specifications, this approach prevents AI from generating hallucinations while optimizing token costs by 8x–12x lower. The use of AI in software development is now practically universal. According to the 2026 Software Lifecycle Engineering Decision Maker Survey from […]
GitHub Slams the Brakes on Private Vulnerability Reports
Drowning in AI-generated bug reports? GitHub has a radical answer: Stop accounts from reporting them. GitHub’s new limits on bug reports aren’t a solution to the AI bug-report flood. Anything but! They’re an admission that the traditional security-disclosure workflow, with human maintainers in the loop, simply doesn’t scale. The scarce resource is no longer discovering […]
Base44 Unveils AI Platform to Transform Application Development
Base44 this week unfurled a cloud-based platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to foster greater collaboration between software engineers, application designers and product management teams. Yoav Orlev, chief product officer for Base44, said at the core of the Base Code platform is a harness the company developed that enables multiple AI models to be used […]
IBM Moves Its Bob Coding Agent Inside the Firewall
Plenty of enterprises want AI coding agents. Fewer are willing to send their source code to someone else’s cloud to get them. That tension has slowed adoption at banks, insurers, government agencies and other organizations that build software under strict rules about where code and data can live. IBM is betting a self-hosted option will […]
AWS AI Agent Surfaces Recommendations to Optimize Cloud Computing Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today made available a preview of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that surfaces recommendations to optimize cost, security, performance and resilience based on the business objectives an organization defines. Jill Fariss, vice president of AWS Support, said the AWS Well-Architected Agent generates code that can be implemented via a command line […]
Introducing Futurum Media: Why Futurum, Why Now?
Techstrong, Tech Field Day and Visible Impact come together, backed by the research, intelligence and expertise of The Futurum Group.
Survey Surfaces Sharp Increase in Amount of Code Written by AI
A global survey of 705 developers and IT leaders finds 42% of respondents reporting that artificial intelligence (AI) now writes at least half their code, with only 21% of developers now spending more than half their week writing new code from scratch. Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of software development services, the survey also finds […]
Perforce Applies Machine Learning to Generate Synthetic Data for App Testing
Perforce Software has added a tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler for application development teams to generate synthetic data for application testing purposes. Mayank Ahluwalia, a senior product manager for Perforce Delphix, said Delphix Synthetic Data makes use of machine learning algorithms to generate synthetic data for specific use cases. It […]
AWS Benchmark Aims to Reduce Number of False Positives Found by AI Vulnerability Scanners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has developed a benchmark that can be used to test whether a model can distinguish real vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is actually safe. The Deception Benchmark was created following an evaluation of the capabilities of 12 models from five different providers. In all, the benchmark includes 14,822 samples […]
Keeping Humans Accountable as AI Agents Take On the SDLC
Ming Wu joins Alan Shimel to explain governed agent loops, shared context and traceability across AI-assisted development, with people remaining accountable for the results.
Headless DevOps Gives AI Agents Access to Delivery Workflows
Federico Larsen joins Alan Shimel to examine agent-accessible delivery workflows, API and MCP interfaces, and the testing and security checks needed for headless DevOps.
Survey: Lack of Confidence in Software Supply Chain Security Runs High
A survey of 400 platform and security engineers in the U.S and United Kingdom (UK), finds nearly three quarters (73%) are either only moderately confident (58%) or not confident (15%) in the ability of their existing tools for managing software artifacts to prevent attacks against their organization’s software supply chain. Conducted by Cloudsmith, a provider […]
DHH Declares End of Hand-Writing Code at Rails World 2026
Controversial developer David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) announced last week at Rails World 2026 that the end of handwritten code is upon us, calling it the modern era’s “Brownie” moment. The moment to which he referred was when Kodak released its Brownie camera that forever changed the trajectory of photography. In this case, the Brownie […]
Blitzy Makes Sandbox for Reverse Engineering Code Available at No Cost
Blitzy has made available a sandbox where DevOps teams can reverse-engineer up to one million lines of code, generate up to 25,000 lines of tested end-to-end code, and identify security vulnerabilities across a codebase at no cost. Dan Ochs, director of AI solutions consulting for Blitzy, said the provider’s Proactive Insights platform uses multiple artificial […]
Talentica Software Unfurls Managed AI Service to Optimize Software Delivery
Talentica Software this week launched a managed software delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enable DevOps teams to deploy applications developed using AI coding tools at scale. Company CTO Manjusha Madabushi said the DevX AI Pods service makes use of a set of AI agents that Talentica has trained to provide the context […]
Avalara Ushers in New Era of Agentic Tax and Compliance with Avalara Aviator
Avalara’s new agent hub brings together specialized AI agents to execute complex tax and compliance workflows while keeping people in control of the decisions that matter. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — September 23, 2026 — Avalara, Inc., the agentic AI leader in global tax and compliance, today unveiled Avalara Aviator at its CRUSH customer and partner […]
US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers
A federal appeals court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI an important win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code. As we all know, all the AI code-generating programs learned their lessons largely from open-source code. So a group of anonymous open-source plaintiffs argued that GitHub Copilot and […]
StackHawk Delivers Wingman to Fix Vulnerabilities as Developers Write Code
StackHawk this week launched Wingman, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that makes it possible for application developers to automatically fix vulnerability issues as code is being written. Wingman is designed to install into Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Antigravity. It scans the live application, interprets findings, and fixes vulnerabilities in a way that […]
Harness Previews Revamped Platform for the Agentic Engineering Era
Harness today previewed a revamped user interface for its platform for managing software deployments that makes it simpler for software engineers to manage teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents using a forthcoming Harness Software Factory platform. Speaking at an {unscripted} NYC 2026 event, Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal told conference attendees the Harness Software Factory will […]
Splunk Preps Second Open Source LLM for Telemetry Data
Splunk is gearing up to make an artificial intelligence (AI) model for analyzing log data available on Hugging Face under an open source license. Additionally, Splunk at its .conf26 conference this week revealed it is developing a Universal Collector, expected to be available in beta in 2027, to streamline collection of all types of telemetry […]
LocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Gain SaaS App Emulation Platform
LocalStack this week revealed it has acquired WonderTwin AI, a provider of an emulator of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that is used to build custom applications for those platforms. Colin Neagle, vice president of marketing for LocalStack, said the emulators WonderTwin AI has developed will be integrated into the company’s namesake emulation platform that application development […]
Test Creation Was Never the Bottleneck
Something specific happened to software delivery in the past two years. The 2026 survey data is unusually clear about what it was. Sonar’s 2026 State of Code Developer Survey found that AI-generated or AI-assisted code accounted for 42% of code committed by respondents, with developers projecting that share to reach 65% by 2027. GitLab’s 2026 […]
GitHub Workflows Strain Under AI Agent Development
Coder CEO Rob Whiteley joins Mike Vizard to explain why GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines and developer platforms are showing strain under agentic development — and what a policy-aware redesign of the DevOps stack should look like.