OfficeCLI, an open-source command-line tool, enables AI agents to create, read, and edit Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) without requiring an Office installation. The tool uses an HTM…
Companies are discovering that AI coding tools, especially agentic workflows, can cost more per month than the salaries of the engineers using them. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budge…
SerpApi developed an agent usability testing (AUT) skill that uses a second AI agent to observe and score how well LLM agents follow agentic skills, achieving 100% task success with the skill versus 2…
Microsoft and OpenAI partnered to tune the GPT-5.5 system prompt in VS Code, testing two variants that nudge the agent to explore less and validate sooner. The experiment, run over two weeks on live t…
AI is transforming software testing, shifting the SDET role from manually writing every test to designing, guiding, and validating intelligent testing systems. An engineer recommends seven AI tools fo…
GitHub Copilot's shift to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, has made token efficiency a direct expense for developers. Microsoft and GitHub have introduced extended prompt caching and deferred tool…
A developer argues that 88% of AI agent pilots fail not due to model limitations but because of an infrastructure readiness gap, specifically the lack of a unified control plane for governance, observ…
A developer detailed six months of using Claude Code since October 2025, transitioning from GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to relying on the AI for brainstorming, coding, and code reviews. The developer b…
A new wave of open-source AI coding agents has emerged that rival paid tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot, offering features such as multi-agent orchestration, cross-session memory, and support for …
ProxyBoy, a Windows-native HTTP/HTTPS debugging proxy with an AI assistant powered by GitHub Copilot, has been released as an experimental project. The tool captures, inspects, and modifies network tr…
A developer compared Claude Code, Cursor AI, and GitHub Copilot on a real 40,000-line SaaS codebase. Claude Code excelled at autonomous multi-file refactors and terminal-first workflows, while Cursor …
Siebel developer Eshita Nandy switched from GitHub Copilot to Claude for her CRM project after Copilot failed to handle Siebel's proprietary eScript language. She found Claude provided accurate debugg…
In mid-2021, while the tech world focused on the Metaverse and NFTs, a small group of developers and researchers in Silicon Valley had early access to GPT-3 and GitHub Copilot and realized the transfo…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, becoming the first open-weight model selectable in the Copilot model picker. GitHub hosts the model on Microsoft Azure, rolli…
A Draup analysis of 2.85 million job listings from June 2025 to June 2026 found that AI is not reducing demand for tech workers but is shifting required skills toward judgment, design, and accountabil…
Apple released an MCP server inside Safari Technology Preview 247 on July 1, enabling AI agents like Claude and Cursor to directly inspect and debug live Safari web pages. The server provides 17 tools…
Z.ai launched ZCode, a free desktop coding environment built around its GLM-5.2 model, on July 1, entering the competitive AI coding-agent market against Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. The t…
Orca, a YC-backed Agent IDE from Stably AI, and Munder Difflin, an agent office that orchestrates autonomous workflows, are both free, MIT-licensed desktop apps for running multiple coding agents, but…
GitHub Copilot CLI is now a first-class agent engine in Munder Difflin as of v0.3.3, the project's first community-contributed provider via PR #101 by @anxkhn. Users can install the official npm packa…
GitHub announced three improvements to its Copilot usage metrics API, including CLI suggested lines of code reporting, IDE identification for server-side-only users, and more accurate AI credit attrib…