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Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering

AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state'

Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer

Oracle introduces Project Detroit for fast Java interop with JavaScript and Python

Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown

AI & ML IN DEVELOPMENT

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference
We take a look at Google's Antigravity: Agentic AI development but some frustrations for early adopters
Top Microsoft execs fret about impact of AI on software engineering profession
OpenAI rewrites AI coding tool in Rust

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

LLVM project adopts 'human in the loop' policy following AI-driven nuisance contributions

Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet

Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns

npmx package browser released as alpha to fix pain of using npmjs

Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand

Top Microsoft execs fret about impact of AI on software engineering profession

GitHub Dependabot is a 'noise machine', and should be turned off, says Go library maintainer

False positives waste time and cause alert fatigue, reducing security, says former Go security lead

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From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

Frustrations with Next.js may drive TanStack Start adoption

February 18, 2026

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

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Anthropic updates to hide Claude’s AI actions, devs hate it

Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming

Microsoft delivers first preview of .NET 11 and C# 15

More improvements to C# but each change adds complexity

NEWS

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JavaScript survey reveals gripes against date handling, Webpack and Next.js - and that "TypeScript has won"

What's wrong with Next.js? Too complex and too much Vercel, survey respondents say

Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI

Salesforce will invest in enterprise AI, but not for Heroku

OpenAI Codex app looks beyond the IDE, devs ask why Mac-only?

Apple embraces agentic AI development with Xcode 26.3

Apple's dev tool gets MCP support, favors Anthropic despite deal with Google for Siri

Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash

Surprise: Adobe Animate, the successor to Flash Professional, still has dedicated users who complained loudly when the company said it would discontinue it

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Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills

Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation

TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is 'a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done'

WebAssembly gaining adoption "behind the scenes" as technology advances

Microsoft previews command-line tool created because calling modern Windows APIs is too difficult

VS Code tasks config file abused to run malicious code

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Microsoft updates React Native for Windows. Developers ask, 'Why not use MAUI?'

jQuery 4.0 released, first major version since 2016

Vibe coded applications full of security blunders

Code signing Windows apps may be easier and more secure with new Azure Artifact service

Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

Tailwind Labs lays off 75 percent of its engineers thanks to 'brutal impact' of AI

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio amid developer discontent with Visual Studio designers

Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready

Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

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The Long Reads

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding

AWS Transform revamp uses AI to shift applications from Microsoft’s SQL Server

AWS debuts Lambda managed instances on EC2: more control, lower cost for high volume users

Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly

OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request

Microsoft Visual Studio shifts to annual releases, raising cost concerns

Google's Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses 'obsolete' declaration

Copilot .Net modernization tool a 'huge downgrade,' devs say – and no longer free

Inside the cloud’s shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch

We take a look at Google's Antigravity: Agentic AI development but some frustrations for early adopters

Google VP of development explains how 'citizen developers' must be tempered by the pros

AWS S3 gets vector buckets with new algorithms for reasonable performance at lower cost, VP tells us