AWS enhances Q Developer: Test and review code, upgrade to modern .NET, migrate mainframe applications

At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the cloud concern introduced a bunch of features for Q Developer, its AI coding assistant – they include...

JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3 and other IDEs, still struggles to convince devs of benefits of new UI 

JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, its IDE for Java and Kotlin, along with updated versions of other IDEs in the same family, including...

Amazon Q Developer is not just for coding and not just for AWS, claims cloud giant

Interview: "The coding aspect is just one small piece of the puzzle. There is the designing, coding, deployment, maintenance of the software and then...

GitHub Universe: Anthropic and Google models come to Copilot, Python ascendant, and a new take on citizen development

At GitHub's Universe event, the Microsoft-owned org talked of AI and little else – Copilot is no longer restricted to models from OpenAI, and...

StackBlitz Bolt.new blurs boundaries between web development and skilled use of AI prompts

An open source development environment called Bolt.new, currently in beta, combines AI and Web Containers, running Node.js inside the browser, with documentation that stresses...

Microsoft previews unified .NET API for AI, and delivers .NET 9 Release Candidate with go-live license

Microsoft has previewed an AI extension library which it hopes will form a unified API for AI programming in C#, and has published a...

OpenAI previews major update to ChatGPT visual interface for writing and coding

OpenAI has introduced an early beta of Canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects, including a separate window...

Why Windows 11 24H2 is a big yawn for developers

The great Windows 11 24H2 roll-out started this week, the major annual feature update for Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating system. Yet the company seems more...

Code is “drowning in security debt” says Veracode – and AI is both problem and solution

A new "State of software security" report says application code is "drowning in debt", where debt is defined as flaws that remain for longer...

Executives have more confidence in software supply chain security than their developers

A report sponsored by DevOps company JFrog suggests that executives over-estimate the extent to which developers within their organization defend against vulnerable or malicious...

Devs say many of their hours are wasted, disagree with managers on how to fix the issue

Atlassian, maker of developer collaboration tools, has sponsored new research showing that "misalignment between engineers and their leaders is possibly the leading cause of...

German court rules AI output can be protectable, ups stakes for machine generated code

A German court ruled last week that AI generated inventions can be patented as long as a human is listed as an inventor. While the...

Can you trust AI to test AI-generated code? DevClass talks AI coding with Tabnine

Peter Guagenti, president and CMO of Tabnine, recently spoke with DevClass about AI versus search, how to assess an AI coding assistant, and whether...

Official OpeniAI .NET library now in beta, will replace Azure OpenAI library and transition may be painful

OpenAI, in collaboration with Microsoft, has released the first betas of an official library for .NET. The new library is said to support the "entire...

AWS Bedrock Converse API: Use same code with different models, works best with Claude 3

AWS has simplified coding conversational applications for its Bedrock AI coding service with the introduction of the Converse API, providing a single API that...

Google Project IDX remote development environment now in open beta – but without iOS simulator

Google has opened its Project IDX browser-based remote development environment to public beta, as well as adding integration with Gemini AI, Firebase hosting, Google...