IGN snootily turned down an offer to review the Nex Playground around its 2023 release. And why not? It’s a casual games ...

It is the bottom of the third inning, and I am on my phone. My boys play travel baseball, and I have spent about 4,000 hours on the bleachers watching nothing happen for long stretches. I have also, ...

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...

The AI coding market has organized itself around a fundamental question about where human judgment belongs in the software development loop. On one side sits the IDE-first bet: keep the engineer in ...

Serena's agent-first tool design involves robust high-level abstractions, distinguishing it from approaches that rely on low-level concepts like line numbers or primitive search patterns. Practically, ...

AI coding replaces edit and debug with instruct and guide. Terminal plus AI replaces traditional development environments. IDEs are reduced to build and deployment tools only. My little dog Pixel does ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Sean Phillip Reyna, an IT data architect with the city of Austin, Texas, was recently working on a series of applications with his team, complex stuff involving AI agents, vector stores and chunking ...

Xcode 26.3 adds autonomous AI agents inside the IDE. Agents can build, test, and fix compile errors on their own. New visual checks use screenshots, but device limits remain. Apple today introduced a ...

OpenAI has given software developers a new desktop toy, and judging by the early reactions, it might feel like someone finally handed coders the Swiss Army knife they’ve been dreaming about or the ...

AI is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. But as developers experiment with new ...