Best of 2025: AI Coding: New Research Shows Even the Best Models Struggle With Real-World Software Engineering
As AI increasingly permeates the software development landscape, new research from OpenAI offers sobering insights into the current limitations of even the most advanced AI coding assistants. The benchmark study, “SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?” presents evidence that despite rapid advances, today’s frontier AI models still fall short […]
Harness Allies with AWS to Integrate AI Agents for Software Engineering
Harness this week extended its alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate their respective artificial intelligence (AI) agents to automate DevOps workflows. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2025 conference, Harness is now integrating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server it added to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with the Kiro AI coding tool […]
Analysis Identifies 10 AI Coding Tool Behaviors That Ignore Best Software Engineering Practices
An analysis of more than 300 open source repositories published today by Ox Security, a provider of an application security posture management (ASPM) platform, identifies 10 systematic behaviors of artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools that ignore established best practices for software engineering. Eyal Paz, vice president of research at OX Security, said that while policies […]
Survey Surfaces Lots of Room for Software Engineering Improvement
A survey of 600 software engineers and 600 senior technology leaders across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France finds that nearly three quarters of software engineers say demands on their time make it difficult for them to build new features. Conducted by Chainguard, a provider of repositories for accessing secure container images, the […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud 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 […]
Bringing Order to Chaotic Software Engineering Workflows
Software development has never been tidy, but the current landscape feels more chaotic than ever. Shannon Mason, chief strategy officer for Tempo, dives into why software engineering workflows remain chaotic and what teams should be doing to try and restore application development order. Developers today face a relentless push to innovate while keeping complex codebases […]
Redefining Engineering Excellence: How Product Skills Amplify Your Impact in the Era of AI
AI allows engineers to delegate tasks to a ‘personal junior engineer’. This raises an important question: What’s next for software engineers?
We’re Not Being Replaced. We’re Inventing What Comes Next, Including Ourselves.
After graduating with degrees in computer science and business in hand, I entered the software industry with the energy and optimism of someone ready to create great software. My first job wasn’t called “software developer”—I was hired as a systems engineer. And that title mattered, a lot more than I first realized. Right after being […]
Daddy, Where Do Software Engineers Come From?
There’s one question every parent dreads hearing from their child: “Daddy, where do babies come from?” We’ve all heard the responses over the years—storks, God, mommy’s belly, “ask your mother,” you name it. But beneath the awkwardness lies a fundamental question: how do we make more of us? Oddly enough, the tech world is now […]
Is Generative AI Replacing Junior Developers?
Generative AI tools aren’t just autocomplete for code—they’re reshaping the very first rung on the engineering career ladder. Host Mike Vizard asks Juan Salinas, VP of business development at Jalasoft, and software engineer Rolando Lora whether entry‑level developer jobs are about to disappear. Salinas is blunt: the routine, low‑risk tickets that once taught newcomers the ropes […]
Perforce Commits to Building Agentic AI Fabric for DevOps Workflows
Perforce Software this week committed to building an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) framework that will be embedded across its entire portfolio of DevOps tools and platforms. Company CTO Anjali Arora said Perforce Intelligence will provide access to a set of AI agents that have been trained to automate a range of software engineering tasks that […]
Windsurf Launches SWE-1: AI Models Built for the Entire Software Engineering Process
Windsurf has unveiled its first family of specialized models designed to transform developers’ work in a significant development for AI-assisted software engineering. The SWE-1 family, announced on May 15, 2025, represents a fundamental shift in AI assistance for developers, moving beyond mere code generation to encompass the entire software engineering workflow. Beyond Just Writing Code […]
Agentic Process Automation This Way Comes to Software Development
The shift from robotic process automation (RPA) to agentic process automation (APA), prominently on display at Automation Anywhere’s Imagine conference in Orlando this week, promises significant implications for the software development community—particularly for low-code/no-code and citizen developers. Automation Anywhere, a provider of automation platforms and framework, articulated how APA, powered by agentic AI, will redefine […]
From Code to Impact: The New Role of Engineers in an AI-Driven World
It’s no longer a question of if AI will change engineers’ roles — it already has. The real question is, how can engineers amplify their impact in this new reality? Exploring what’s next for engineers.
From Autocomplete to Autonomous: How LLMs Are Transforming Software Engineering
LLMs are reshaping software engineering and boosting productivity, evolving from advanced autocompletes to autonomous collaborators.
Why API-First Engineering is the Way Forward for Software Development
An API-first engineering strategy aims to enhance developer experience and productivity by providing an API marketplace with improved discoverability, enabling developers to quickly find the resources they need.
Building Complex Software at Scale with Tameem Hourani
RapDev founder Tameem Hourani dives into what it really takes for software engineering teams to develop and deploy complex software at scale. Hourani talks about the challenges of maintaining a blameless culture in DevOps, even as software complexity continues to grow. The discussion explores how teams can strike a balance between rapid innovation and system […]
AI Coding: New Research Shows Even the Best Models Struggle With Real-World Software Engineering
New OpenAI research reveals that frontier AI models like Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o solve fewer than half of real-world software engineering tasks from a $1M benchmark.
Uplevel Adds Consulting Service to Reengineer Software Development
Uplevel has launched a consulting service to help organizations modernize their software engineering development practices.
Coding AIs in Large-Scale Software Engineering with Scott Dietzen
Scott Dietzen, CEO of Augment Code, discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping large-scale software engineering. He shares his background in machine learning and his experience working with massive, complex codebases, highlighting the challenges engineers face when maintaining and updating them. Then he explains how AI can help developers navigate these challenges by understanding […]
Open Mainframe Project Extends Software Engineering Reach
The Open Mainframe Project has updated its open source Zowe project to add support for IntelliJ, an integrated development environment (IDE) widely used to build Java applications, while at the same time making software development kits (SDKs) for Java and Kotlin programming languages generally available. In addition, it is now simpler to actively monitor dependencies […]
Cloud Canaries Emerges to Provide Alternative to Observability Platforms
Cloud Canaries emerged from stealth today to provide a set of lightweight agents that leverage a neural network to detect issues, monitor performance in real-time and identify how to resolve software engineering issues.
Postman Makes AI Tool for API Management Platform Available
Postman today generally made available a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool for its platform for building and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) that automatically creates tests and documentation. Announced at a POST/CON 2024 conference, Postbot is included with version 11 of the Postman platform which also adds workspaces that make it simpler for software engineering […]