5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (706+ words) A year and a half ago I sat in a conference in Silicon Valley and watched an AI agent write production-quality code in real time. I knew our engineering model was going to change, and within a few weeks my…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (458+ words) I built a complete, working application in a day this past weekend. Well, less than a day if you don’t count the time I spent waiting on Claude Code to do the work. The idea was germinated by my sister…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (289+ words) If you worked on agents the first time around, back in the 1990s, when they were tools designed to manage and run long workflows for users, you’ll recognize the problem. After all, the security risks associated with delivering arbitrary code to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1291+ words) I’ve stopped being surprised by the service account nobody can explain. It was created for a migration that finished years ago. It still holds credentials. Whoever requested it left before anyone wrote down why. And it passes every access review,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (205+ words) The ongoing saga of Star Citizen is an object lesson in why big software projects need constraints and realistic goals. If this isn't the worst example of "scope creep" in the history of IT, it's easily in the top five....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (325+ words) While demo agents authenticate with a single god-mode API key, enterprise agents cannot, because security teams need to understand who the agent is acting on behalf of and what it is allowed to access. The second wall is physical. Enterprise…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (666+ words) AI coding tools are increasingly becoming the place where developers write and modify software. SpaceX-owned Cursor now wants to bring code hosting into that same environment, potentially challenging GitHub’s position as the center of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (454+ words) GitHub has restored services after a nearly eight-hour outage disrupted several of its core developer tools, including Actions, pull requests, APIs, Git operations, Webhooks, and Copilot, impacting software development workflows across its platform. “This incident has been resolved. Thank you…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (312+ words) Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (310+ words) Senior data engineers are trained to be skeptical of proprietary platforms. When I entered a Palantir Foundry training bootcamp, I expected to find a slow, expensive alternative to the mature tools I know on AWS and Azure. What I found…...