Using vibe coding to scratch an itch has many of the same issues as using low-code and no-code development tools. That’s not surprising. Putting together…
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Your AI agent needs more than memory. It needs reliable state
Most teams building AI agents are pouring effort into better memory, longer context windows, conversation summaries, retrieval systems that pull up…
Microsoft separates decision-making from generative AI with a new model
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs…
The best place to run AI agents
Every few weeks, another enterprise leader asks me the same question: Should our AI agents run in the cloud or in our own data center? It sounds like a…
AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity
Developers have never been more inclined to use AI, yet never less inclined to trust its output. In Stack Overflow’s surveys, the proportion of…
Screencasting in the AI era
During my tenure as InfoWorld’s blogger-in-chief I became fascinated with narrated videos of software in action. Tools existed to do that kind of…
Local AI on NPUs: Building a zero-cloud photo deduplicator with OpenCLIP
Every new laptop today is marketed as an ‘AI PC’ thanks to a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU). But beyond chatting with small local LLMs, what…
Why data work is one step behind on AI
One of the reasons programmers “got” agentic AI first, in the sense that it could meaningfully alter their productivity and effectiveness, is because code…
Is your software product ready for the Cyber Resilience Act?
The European Union is rolling out new cybersecurity requirements for hardware and software products sold in the EU market. Aimed at ensuring that all…
Hands-on agentic development with Google’s Antigravity IDE
Google Antigravity IDE is one of the most sophisticated integrated development environments available today. In contrast to Antigravity 2.0 , which…
Google positions Gemini 4 Argon for long-horizon agentic work
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model aimed at complex enterprise and software-development workloads, pairing claims of stronger…
5 agentic AI trade-offs to consider before production
Companies across industries are moving quickly to build agentic AI systems. But getting an agent to work in a prototype is very different from getting one…
Seven ways to encourage critical thinking in AI users
Employees are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to get work done. Many are using agents to complete tasks, and others are…
It’s time to rewrite all that old code
The first substantial software project I ever undertook (at least it seemed substantial at the time) was porting the famous text-based Star Trek game from…
What building an Android weather app taught me about designing for reliability
I spent 13 years building Android apps, and for most of them, the backend was someone else’s problem. Building Weather Pal, my own forecast app, broke…
The value of software is approaching $0
Imagine a vendor comes to you and explains how they can dramatically de-risk your infrastructure. They have a new software product or SaaS that detects…
TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code…
Microsoft separates decision-making from generative AI with a new model
Microsoft has launched Decision-1, an AI model that returns probabilities for predefined answers, allowing software applications to use its outputs…
Screencasting in the AI era
During my tenure as InfoWorld’s blogger-in-chief I became fascinated with narrated videos of software in action. Tools existed to do that kind of…
AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity
Developers have never been more inclined to use AI, yet never less inclined to trust its output. In Stack Overflow’s surveys, the proportion of…