Sourcegraph coding assistant now supports Anthropic Claude 3 – though limited to 7K token input

Cody, an AI coding assistant from Sourcegraph, now supports Anthropic Claude 3 LLMs (Large Language Models) as well as OpenAI GPT-4 and Azure OpenAI. According...

Supabase moves out of beta, adds supports for Swift, plugs in Oriole storage engine

Supabase, described by its developers as an open source alternative to Google’s Firebase, has moved to general availability as well as introducing new capabilities...

Go dev survey shows frustration with Python’s dominance of AI

An official survey of Go developers shows growing interest in building AI applications – but some frustration that Python dominates the space, with far...

AI coding: Hugging Face engineer extols benefits of open source models, but hard questions remain

AI coding using open source models has advantages in transparency and the ability to customize them, but hard questions about licensing and reliability were...

.NET Smart Components experiment the “Visual Basic” of AI programming?

Microsoft has introduced experimental .NET Smart Components as an effort to make AI programming within reach for every developer. The components are for .NET 6...

GitHub autofix progresses to public beta: insecure code corrected with AI, but only for enterprise

GitHub code scanning autofix, a service which automatically detects code vulnerabilities and suggests fixes, is now in public preview for those signed up to...

JetBrains bows to user pressure and unbundles AI Assistant in new IntelliJ IDEA beta

JetBrains has unbundled its AI Assistant from the IDE, in a new beta of IntelliJ IDEA, which is also the basis for many other...

Hands On: Netlify AI-assisted deployment aims to reduce log-diving

Netlify has introduced AI-assisted deployment to its hosting platform. The feature analyzes deployment failures and suggests fixes, the idea being to reduce the time...

Stack Overflow turns to Google for hosting and AI features, trusts in Gemini for tech answers

Developer question and answer site Stack Overflow has signed a deal with Google Cloud, through which Stack Overflow users will get AI assistance driven...

Employing your cloud data warehouse to scale up AI/ML

SPONSORED FEATURE: Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky famously said: "I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been". That quote...

Rust-based Zed editor now open source – with built-in support for OpenAI and GitHub Copilot

The Zed editor project - which remains a pre-release - is now open source under the AGPL, GPL and Apache licenses, with fast performance...

AI assistance is leading to lower code quality, claim researchers

AI software development has grown rapidly in popularity, but how is code quality impacted? Not well, according to new research, with issues including code...

Google pitches AI developers with Gemini Pro, new tooling, and generous free quota

Gemini Pro, the multimodal AI model which powers Google Bard, has been made available to developers – both in the Google AI Studio and...

JetBrains releases its AI Assistant and pricing – but how does it compare to Github Copilot?

JetBrains has released its AI Assistant, now available in the 2023.3 versions of its range of IDEs and its next-generation Fleet IDE. It will...

AI Assistants write insecure code that humans trust too much, Snyk survey finds

A new report suggests that AI coding tools “consistently generate insecure code,” highlighting an aspect of automated coding that may be neglected. AI generated code...

Interview: Not much on Kubernetes at AWS re:Invent? More than it seemed, VP tells us

Kubernetes is hot in the enterprise, yet received little attention in the keynotes at the AWS re:Invent conference last week where the focus was...