Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.

Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...

You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.

A hot potato: Just one month after it announced a price hike for US subscribers, Spotify has revealed that the best developers at the company have not written a single line of code since December, ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

The dispute went viral, prompting maintainers to lock the thread. An AI agent sparked an unusually personal clash with human developers after it responded angrily to its code submission being turned ...

Most companies are still operating under a software development mental model that no longer holds. For many, one-week sprints are considered “fast.” Story points, velocity and agile ceremonies ...

Thomas Dohmke, who helped scale GitHub Copilot during his tenure as CEO at GitHub, is back with a new startup that’s coming out of stealth with a hefty $60 million seed round. Silicon Valley venture ...