A developer calculated their monthly software subscription costs and found they were spending $67.89 per month ($814.68 per year) on essential developer tools, with costs rising to $194.89 per month (…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model is now generally available for GitHub Copilot, offering improved code understanding and generation for complex problem-solving and large-codebase navigation. The mode…
GitHub Copilot CLI now supports plugins and a marketplace system that lets developers package reusable agents, skills, hooks, and MCP server integrations as installable packages. Instead of manually c…
Current large language models cannot safely modify real software systems despite impressive code-generation demos, because they rely on pattern matching rather than causal reasoning. The fundamental g…
By May 2026, AI-assisted development has become standard, with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude emerging as the leading tools for production coding. GitHub Copilot offers the best context awareness …
In 2026, the AI coding assistant market has matured, with GitHub Copilot becoming the safe enterprise choice integrated into VS Code and Visual Studio, while Cursor gained indie developer mindshare th…
GitHub's new GH-600 (Agentic AI Developer) certification, the first vendor credential focused on building and governing AI agents in the software development lifecycle, is currently in beta until May …
JetBrains is positioning its AI coding tools as an independent alternative as competitors like Cursor align with larger tech ecosystems. The company argues that developer tool ownership matters as the…
Major developments in AI development tools as of April and May 2026, highlighting Cursor 3.0's shift to a multi-agent workspace, Anthropic's Claude Code achieving 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified, and Wind…
The article compares three local LLM-based code completion tools—Zed AI, Continue, and Cursor—highlighting their strengths and weaknesses for different workflows. It notes that local models offer priv…
The Amazon Q Developer CLI has been rebranded and replaced by the new Kiro CLI, reflecting a shift from a simple terminal chatbot to a more advanced "agentic IDE" tool. Unlike its predecessor, Kiro CL…
On May 18, GitHub released a general availability feature allowing users to remotely control Copilot CLI sessions from mobile, web, or VS Code by scanning a QR code. The author independently published…
"konid," a language-learning MCP server built by the author after six months of translating Japanese work emails. Unlike standard translation tools, konid returns three options per query ordered from …
A developer building an x86_64 kernel named TaterTOS64 found that AI documentation tools hallucinated incorrect code dependencies and failed to understand the project's repository structure. In respon…
Based on a 2026 survey of developers, the article ranks AI coding assistants, with GitHub Copilot remaining the most widely adopted due to its improved multi-file awareness, while Cursor is highlighte…
GitHub has announced the general availability of remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI sessions, allowing developers to start work in VS Code or the CLI and continue it from their phone via the GitHub…
The article describes a batch script designed to reset the trial period for JetBrains software, specifically ReSharper C# and C++. The script works by deleting evaluation license folders and registry …