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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Generative AI can write lots of code but its overall impact on developer productivity is more nuanced. Research from Atlassian’s DX, Google, LaunchDarkly and...

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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Developer tools company JetBrains is discontinuing its Fleet IDE, which was introduced in 2021 but never made it out of public preview. The company...

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

Development Tim Anderson -
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, AWS described how it now uses Rust by default for certain types of project, having...

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

Containers Tim Anderson -
Akamai, a long-established content delivery network (CDN) company, has acquired WebAssembly start-up Fermyon, with the aim of attracting more developers to its edge computing...

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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
The Bun JavaScript runtime has been acquired by Anthropic, which already uses the product for deploying Claude Code. Anthropic said Bun "will remain open source...

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

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
AWS has revamped its AI-based Transform tool, which assists with application modernization and migration, adding the ability to move from Microsoft’s SQL Server to...

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

Serverless Tim Anderson -
At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, the cloud giant has introduced Lambda managed instances, which blend the serverless model of...

Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
The Zig project is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit Git hosting company based in Berlin, Germany, with Zig lead developer Andrew Kelley...

OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
The maintainers of OCaml, an open-source functional programming language, rejected an AI-generated pull request (PR) with more than 13,000 lines of code, citing copyright...

Microsoft Visual Studio shifts to annual releases, raising cost concerns

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Microsoft is accelerating Visual Studio's update cycle, moving from quarterly to monthly feature updates and introducing annual major releases each November (alongside .NET). Meanwhile,...
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