GitHub Copilot’s price shakeup could end cheap AI coding as we know it
It was fun while it lasted, but it’s starting to look like the end for flat-rate AI plans as we know them, with GitHub being the first to turn out the lights. Just a week…
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TL;DR: This Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 + The Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle is currently on sale for $59.99, that’s 97% off the $1,999.99 retail value. Developers, take note: one of the most capable IDEs on…
Vibe coding apps taught me how hard real coding is
Like so many others, I jumped onto the vibe coding bandwagon, entranced by the idea of building my own incredibly useful apps with nothing but an AI prompt. Over the course of about six weeks,…
OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measured 2,100 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 70B and reported 3,000 tokens per second on OpenAI’s own open-weight gpt-oss-120B model,…
Developers say AI coding tools work—and that’s precisely what worries them
Software developers have spent the past two years watching AI coding tools evolve from advanced autocomplete into something that can, in some cases, build entire applications from a text prompt. Tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code…
OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
It’s worth noting that both OpenAI and Anthropic open-source their coding CLI clients on GitHub, allowing developers to examine the implementation directly, whereas they don’t do the same for ChatGPT or the Claude web interface.…
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
If you’ve ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could have never sculpted or built yourself. Download a model file, load some plastic filament, push…
How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
This context limit naturally limits the size of a codebase a LLM can process at one time, and if you feed the AI model lots of huge code files (which have to be re-evaluated by…
A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options
On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves a 72.2 percent score…
Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage
Growing dependency on AI coding tools The speed at which news of the outage spread shows how deeply embedded AI coding assistants have already become in modern software development. Claude Code, announced in February and…