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Why your AI coding agent needs more than a plan: Lessons from the trenches Moving into AI-first development is a journey, and we're all learning together. I want to share some bittersweet lessons from my recent experience that might save you from hitting the same walls I did...

Moving into AI-first development is a journey, and we’re all learning together. Andrew Filev, CEO of Zencoder shares some bittersweet lessons from his recent experience that might save you from hitting the same walls he did.

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This week in AI updates: Local Azure DevOps MCP server, Veo 3.1 in Gemini API, and more (October 17, 2025) The Azure DevOps MCP server acts as an intermediary between AI assistants and the Azure DevOps organization.

Catch up on the latest AI features that might improve your development workflow here ⬇️

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Report: Developers want to be measured on more than just technical metrics According to JetBrains’ report, developers want to be measured on more than just the technical aspects of deployment.

For many years, the DORA metrics were the gold standard when it came to measuring software development performance, but according to JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 report, developers today want to be measured on more than just technical metrics.

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Oracle launches AI Agent Marketplace to enable customers to find and deploy validated agents Oracle has announced the launch of a new marketplace to help customers find and deploy validated AI agents that can be used within Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle has announced the launch of a new marketplace to help customers find and deploy validated AI agents that can be used within Oracle Fusion Applications.

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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a cost effective alternative to Claude Sonnet 4 and 4.5 Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, which provides similar coding performance to Sonnet 4, but is twice as fast and one-third as expensive.

Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Haiku 4.5, which provides similar coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4, but is twice as fast and one-third as expensive.

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Twilio expands its customer engagement platform with better observability and alerting capabilities Twilio today announced new features to help companies create and maintain customer experiences that are based on trusted data.

Twilio today announced new features to help companies create and maintain customer experiences that are based on trusted data.

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API Summit 2025: Kong Event Gateway, Metering & Billing, and native integration with AWS API Gateway During its API Summit today, Kong announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs.

During its API Summit today, Kong Inc. announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs.

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BrowserStack adds Visual Review Agent for web testing According to BrowserStack, the Visual Review Agent provides an AI-generated summary of each visual change.

BrowserStack has announced a Visual Review Agent for its visual web testing platform Percy.

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Moderne adds support for JavaScript and TypeScript to its code refactoring tool Moderne announced that its Lossless Semantic Tree (LST) code model now supports JavaScript and TypeScript.

Moderne, a company that provides solutions to help modernize code, announced that its Lossless Semantic Tree (LST) code model now supports JavaScript and TypeScript.

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Salesforce announces general availability of its unified agentic AI platform Agentforce 360 Salesforce—ahead of its Dreamforce 2025 conference this week—announced the general availability of Agentforce 360, its agentic AI platform.

Salesforce has announced the general availability of Agentforce 360, its agentic AI platform.

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This week in AI updates: Amazon Quick Suite, Gemini Enterprise, and more (October 10, 2025) Amazon Quick Suite allows users to ask questions, conduct deep research, analyze and visualize data, and create automations.

Catch up on the latest AI news from the past week here ⬇️

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From vibe coding to vibe deployment: Closing the prototype-to-production gap Even in those early days, there was an unspoken reality: while AI could “vibe” out an MVP, the leap from prototype to production remained a formidable gap.

Even in the early days of vibe coding, there was an unspoken reality: while AI could “vibe” out an MVP, the leap from prototype to production remained a formidable gap.

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Redgate Software’s Data Modeler aims to help companies that manage multiple database platforms Redgate Data Modeler is a rebranded version of the Vertabelo Data Modeler, following Redgate’s acquisition of the company.

Redgate Software has announced the launch of its new data modeling tool that helps organizations deal with the complexity of working with multiple database platforms.

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Google unveils Gemini Enterprise to provide companies a more unified platform for AI innovation Google is announcing a new offering built around Gemini, designed specifically with large enterprise use in mind.

Google is announcing a new offering built around Gemini, designed specifically with large enterprise use in mind.

Gemini Enterprise brings together advanced Gemini models, agent orchestration, connections to company data, and a central governance framework.

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Atlassian shares major updates to its genAI assistant Rovo at Team ‘25 Europe Atlassian announced the general availability of Rovo Dev, an agent that helps with code reviews, documentation, dependency cleanups, and more.

Atlassian is hosting its annual user conference Team ‘25 Europe this week in Barcelona, and during the event, the company shared several new and upcoming updates to its generative AI assistant Rovo.

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Google launches ecosystem of extensions for Gemini CLI Google is launching Gemini CLI extensions to allow different development tools to connect up to the Gemini CLI.

Google is launching Gemini CLI extensions to allow different development tools to connect up to the Gemini CLI.

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📢 New podcast!

We speak with ArmorCode Inc.'s CPO Mark Lambert about how AI is influencing the field of Application Security Posture Management (ASPM).

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Meta donates React and React Native to the Linux Foundation Meta is donating React and React Native to the Linux Foundation, which will be forming the React Foundation to support these libraries.

Today at React Conf, Meta announced that it would be donating React and React Native to the Linux Foundation, which will be forming the React Foundation to support these libraries.

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XMLUI: A modern web development tool based on a component model XMLUI aims to bring the Visual Basic model to the contemporary web, specifically leveraging the React-based component ecosystem.

XMLUI aims to bring the Visual Basic model to the contemporary web, specifically leveraging the React-based component ecosystem.

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IBM adds new capabilities to watsonx Orchestrate to facilitate agentic AI at scale IBM's agent orchestration platform watsonx Orchestrate now includes AgentOps, an observability and governance layer for AI agents.

Today as IBM kicked off its annual developer event TechXchange 2025, it announced several new capabilities to enable organizations to unlock value from agentic AI.

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OpenAI DevDay: ChatGPT Apps, AgentKit, and GA release of Codex OpenAI held its annual Developer Day event today where it announced several updates to its products.

OpenAI held its annual Developer Day event today where it announced several updates to its products:

◾Apps in ChatGPT
◾AgentKit, a set of tools for building, deploying, and optimizing agents
◾General availability of Codex
◾New capabilities in the Evals framework

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Google’s coding agent Jules now works in the command line Google created this new command line interface out of a recognition that the terminal is where developers spend most of their time.

Google’s coding agent Jules now can be used directly in developer’s command lines so that it can act as more of a coding companion.

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This week in AI updates: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server, DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI updates, and more (October 3, 2025) The AgentCore MCP server offers built-in support for runtime, gateway integration, identity management, and agent memory.

Catch up on the latest AI news from the past week here ⬇️

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Microsoft announces preview of its new Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for .NET and Python for creating AI agents and multi-agent workflows.

Microsoft has announced a preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source development kit for .NET and Python for creating AI agents and multi-agent workflows.

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September 2025: AI updates from the past month Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieves a 77.2% on the SWE-bench for software engineering, compared to 74.5% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 72.7% for Claude Sonnet 4.

Catch up on the AI news we covered in the past month here ⬇️

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DigitalOcean and Laravel partner to simplify server provisioning for devs DigitalOcean and the company behind the PHP framework Laravel have announced a new partnership to help developers more easily provision servers for web development.

DigitalOcean and the company behind the PHP framework Laravel have announced a new partnership to help developers more easily provision servers for web development.

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California passes law to ensure safe innovation of frontier AI models Earlier this week, California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law designed to ensure safe development and deployment of frontier AI models.

Earlier this week, California’s governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law designed to ensure safe development and deployment of frontier AI models.

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Slack evolves to support agentic capabilities built on conversational data The new real-time search (RTS) API surfaces up-to-date discussions, files, and channels to provide agents access with context-aware information.

Salesforce is announcing several major updates to Slack that will enable customers to leverage their conversation history for AI apps and agents.

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Bridge the gap between LLMs and business data LLMs, for all their linguistic prowess, weren't designed to understand the complex, heterogeneous landscape of enterprise data systems.

The gap between natural language processing capabilities and structured business data access represents one of the most significant technical hurdles in realizing AI’s full potential in the enterprise. sdtimes.com/data/bridge-...

VibeSec embeds security analysis into AI coding models to prevent generation of insecure code OX is shifting security as far left as it can go with VibeSec, which it says can stop insecure AI-generated code before it gets generated.

OX Security is shifting security as far left as it can go with the launch of VibeSec, which it says can stop insecure AI-generated code before the code even gets generated.

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