A comparison of 14 AI code review tools found that most cannot safely block a merge, with three offering no native merge-blocking mechanism at all, according to Codacy's 2026 analysis. The comparison …
Microsoft ported the GitHub Copilot runtime from TypeScript to Rust using AI agents at a cost of about $120,000 in AI token usage plus roughly three weeks of developer time, Microsoft Distinguished En…
Microsoft released VS Code 1.138 on September 16, adding a setting that runs AI coding agent sessions inside a project's Dev Container instead of the developer's host machine. The feature, enabled via…
Anthropic shipped Claude Code version 2.1.277 on September 18, adding native fallback support for AGENTS.md project instruction files so the tool reads the community format whenever a project lacks it…
GitHub will deprecate six models across all GitHub Copilot experiences — including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions — on October 19th, 2026. The retired models are…
AIR Security disclosed Plugin4Shell, a zero-click remote code execution vulnerability that bypasses SHA pinning in four major AI coding agents: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and the Gemin…
A developer's enterprise AI reality check argues that generative AI and large language models have become genuinely useful in production, but that most vendor promises of 10x productivity and massive …
Vercel Labs has launched skills.sh, an open directory and CLI for distributing "Agent Skills" — a lightweight, open format that packages specialized knowledge and workflows for AI coding agents such a…
RepoGuard launched as a command-line tool that enforces architectural rules on code written by AI assistants including Cursor and Copilot, offering commands such as `npx repoguard init`, `npx repoguar…
A zero-click remote code execution vulnerability affects four major AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI — and two of them remain unpatched, according to security resea…
Air Security disclosed Plugin4Shell on September 17, a zero-click remote code execution vulnerability in the plugin ecosystems of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI that bypasse…
A developer has compiled a forge-aware comparison of AI code review tools, arguing that popular GitHub-centric roundups fail teams running self-managed GitLab, Azure DevOps Server, or Bitbucket Data C…
GitHub added agentic activity metrics to its Copilot usage metrics API, covering skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash commands, and plugins. The new fields appear in ente…
Stackness reported that as of 17 September 2026 its sample of eight real public developer profiles contained too few declared departures to show developers switching between AI coding tools, with Curs…
A newly disclosed vulnerability dubbed Plugin4Shell enables zero-click remote code execution in Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI by bypassing plugin SHA pinning, according to …
OpenAI's recent Codex release notes describe administrator settings for website defaults, uploads, downloads, browser history, developer access, saved approvals, and approval duration, according to a …
Anthropic launched Claude Code Projects in public beta on September 17, 2026, a redesign that turns Claude Code from a static repository into a multi-agent orchestration hub letting one conversation m…
A 2026 pricing survey of AI coding tools reports that 73% of startups now deploy at least one AI coding assistant, with GitHub Copilot the most widely adopted at $10-19 per user per month, followed by…
Vercel Labs released Portless, a CLI tool that replaces localhost port numbers with stable named .localhost URLs via a background reverse proxy daemon that routes requests by hostname. Portless assign…
Fission AI released OpenSpec, a free open-source Node.js CLI that lets developers and coding agents agree on a change in plain Markdown before any code is written. The tool uses a change-centric workf…