For years, I thought of billing as a domain I would have to learn from scratch. Ledgers. Taxes. Proration. Regulations. Money. After 11 years building…
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Encrypted instructions trick Copilot CLI into spilling developer secrets
GitHub Copilot CLI can be made to read sensitive files from a developer’s machine and send their contents to an attacker from a single web page. Security…
Cursor writes all my code now
I was at the gym yesterday, talking with a relatively new CrossFitter named John, and naturally he asked me what I do for a living. I said I write…
Five keys to controlling AI token costs
We spent the last decade building entire finops departments just to decipher what the cloud bill was saying. Just when we figured out how to stop leaving…
Atlassian launches AMP to tackle AI code visibility, attribution
Atlassian today rolled out new offerings designed to make it easier for IT to differentiate coding by AIs from human coding. The problem is that such…
AI has accelerated coding. Now software organizations must redesign everything around it
Software teams running AI coding tools are generating more output than ever before. Commits are up. Pull requests move faster. By the numbers, developer…
ServiceNow takes aim at enterprise AI’s workflow bottleneck with AI Workflow Factory
ServiceNow has launched two AI solutions that can help enterprises identify business processes ripe for automation, build the workflows to address them,…
One week to 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…
Atlassian’s critical flaw turns eight enterprise products into one big security problem
A newly-disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian’s data center software has a remarkably wide reach, affecting eight core products across the company’s…
Don’t buy a consultant’s AI framework
Every major consulting firm offers its own prebuilt architectural framework, model, or reference architecture for generative AI and agentic AI . The pitch…
Money can’t buy enterprise trust
I thought the AI boom was producing a new level of bad behavior , what with MongoDB CEO CJ Desai peacing out, not to mention Google’s earlier…
Knowing which vulnerability to fix first
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) severity tells you how serious a vulnerability could be. Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) estimates how…
What cloud infrastructure taught me about building billing systems
For years, I thought of billing as a domain I would have to learn from scratch. Ledgers. Taxes. Proration. Regulations. Money. After 11 years building…
JDK 27: The quiet before the storm
Every September, with metronomic regularity, we have a new version of the Java platform. One small point about timing is that the first release candidate…
IBM’s Bob wants to move in: Agent available for on-prem deployment
Bob, IBM’s agentic software development platform is now available to run on premises and in private clouds, sovereign clouds, and air-gapped environments…
AI could boost software engineer productivity by 32.6%
Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to…
AI is less dangerous than humans
Over the past few weeks, people have been pushing a stack of reports at me as evidence that AI is dangerous to humanity. The OpenAI incident disclosures ,…
Meta’s ex launches agent rival to Meta’s Muse
Manus’s relationship with Meta? It’s complicated. Just months after they called off their merger, they find themselves competing in the market for agentic…
Nvidia releases Open Agent Safety Platform to monitor and govern agentic AI
Nvidia on Monday rolled out an agentic governance system called the Open Agent Safety Platform that combines software with out-of-band DPU-based silicon…
What happens when the cloud blows up?
I’ve covered cloud computing for a long time, and one of the most persistent myths I encounter is that public clouds exist above the laws of physics that…