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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI

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Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow will partner with OpenAI, with ChatGPT using Stack Overflow data and OpenAI models coming to OverflowAI, a commercial service...

Oracle preparing Code Assist: AI coding “fine-tuned” for Java, SQL and its own cloud

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Oracle is planning to release its own AI coding assistant, Code Assist, with the claim that it is fine-tuned and optimised for Java, Oracle...

GitHub opens technical preview for Copilot Workspace, its next phase in AI-powered development

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Developers can now apply to join the technical preview of Copilot Workspace

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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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...

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