SmartBear has made its BearQ agentic QA system available as an assignable testing agent in Atlassian Jira, following BearQ's March launch, letting teams set autonomy levels for autonomous testing of a…
A developer reports that after several months of using Claude Code for Java development tasks, the role has shifted from hands-on implementation to supervision of an AI assistant. The developer argues…
A developer argues that Scrum is effectively dead, not because a better methodology replaced it, but because coding agents have made the Agile Manifesto's original principles practically followable fo…
A developer built a fatigue prediction model that combines Oura Ring sleep and heart-rate-variability data with GitHub pull-request velocity to estimate a daily "Cognitive Load Score." The pipeline in…
AI sprint assistants like Atlassian's Delivery Agent and AI Sprint Planning Assistant, along with marketplace tools such as Spinach.io, SprintPoker, and Agile Poker for Jira, are automating Agile cere…
A developer has open-sourced GraphOps, a Claude Code plugin that combines lightweight ticket management with execution graphs (DAGs) to orchestrate parallel AI agent workflows. The plugin structures e…
Knecht, a self-hostable tool for building software factories, has entered beta, its developer announced on Hacker News. Knecht connects to GitHub repos and starts each project in an isolated Docker sa…
A software engineering team's shift to optional code reviews after April, combined with AI coding agents, caused review counts to drop to almost zero and let "passable" one-off agent implementations b…
A developer outlines a four-pillar Application Security program that uses AI to filter false positives from SAST findings, auto-generate STRIDE threat models, and enforce tiered guardrails rather than…
Programmer and machine learning specialist Michał Żarnecki published the first part of a three-part series describing how he automates software development and project maintenance using Claude Code, M…
GitHub attributed its recent poor availability to an "acceleration in agentic development workflow," according to a company blog post, illustrating how AI-driven development can shift a software organ…
Atlassian reports its Rovo Dev AI reviewer cut pull request cycle time by up to 45% internally and 32% for customers, but the reduction largely reflects routing of mechanical checks rather than the co…
A developer examines Grok Bot, an AI agent being demoed in a 72-hour "Grok Bot Galaxy" event, arguing that agent architecture—not just smarter models—is what lets AI move from answering prompts to exe…
An engineering team built an internal AI development agent that takes a blank Jira story and autonomously returns a stack of reviewed merge requests, automating planning, ticket decomposition, depende…
Orchid Security unveiled a "kill switch" that lets customers restrict permissions, revoke credentials, disconnect tools, or suspend AI agent workflows when an agent's observed behavior drifts from its…
Liniora launched an engineering workspace that connects tickets, branches, pull requests, reviews, decisions, team discussions and deployments, with AI linking records across a codebase, according to …
Building software specifically for AI agents will mostly fail because tools that work well for agents also work well for humans, existing tools hold a training-data advantage, and the ideal ergonomics…
Avtandil Labs released Jira AI Auditor, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects to Claude Desktop and audits Jira projects for overdue, unassigned, and reopened tickets, assigning a propor…
Granola, an AI notepad that transcribes device audio in real time, now connects to Jira, Linear, and Asana through a Zapier integration that opens up 8,000+ apps, letting product managers sync reviewe…
GitHub shipped its September 7 Copilot weekly release, adding Jira integration to the Copilot app, adaptive model orchestration via Project HydraFusion in Copilot CLI, agent automation in VS Code 1.13…