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How AI can improve site reliability engineering

The AI code avalanche is changing production environments faster than operations engineers can rebuild their mental models of them. AI models can help.

Jul 30, 2026 6 mins

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Visual Studio Code 1.131 zeroes in on subagents

VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor agents can act on.

Jul 29, 2026 2 mins

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How to set up Windows for software development

Want to take maximum advantage of Windows as a development system? Follow these five steps.

Jul 27, 2026 10 mins

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Model Context Protocol is going stateless to make scaling simpler

The updated protocol will simplify how enterprises deploy and scale MCP-based AI applications in the cloud, but developers relying on deprecated capabilities will need to plan for architectural changes over the coming year.

Jul 24, 2026 5 mins

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Top AIs invent same fake PyPl and npm package names

Research reveals that slopsquatting remains a threat to developers using AI to aid coding.

Jul 24, 2026 2 mins

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Visual Studio Code 1.130 dresses up Agents window

VS Code update also introduces assisted permissions for agent tool calls in the agent host and clickable file links in Git diff output in the terminal.

Jul 23, 2026 2 mins

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WSL container: A quiet revolution for Windows development

What if you could use Linux code inside your Windows applications without changing it? Now you can.

Jul 23, 2026 8 mins

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Cisco’s new AI model tells code reviewers where to look for vulnerabilities

Cisco is betting that enterprises will see value in having AI quickly identify the handful of files worthy of investigation by human software vulnerability researchers.

Jul 22, 2026 3 mins

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Agentic coding is everywhere

As open source projects embrace agentic coding, software is becoming AI code all the way down.

Jul 22, 2026 4 mins

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Visual Studio Code 1.129 introduces dedicated agent host

Update to the code editor also brings an editor panel to the Agents window and the ability to run terminal commands directly from chat prompts.

Jul 21, 2026 3 mins

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