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Preview 6 of Microsoft’s .NET 11 software development platform is now available, with improvements across the runtime, libraries, frameworks, and C# and F# programming languages. Announced July 15 , .NET 11 Preview 6 can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com . The full, general production release is expected in November. The first preview was unveiled February 10 . Runtime-async, the .NET runti…

OpenAI’s recent update to its Codex CLI has introduced a new protocol that appears to shift more orchestration decisions from user-defined configuration to the runtime, prompting developers to request greater visibility into the instructions exchanged between AI agents. In a detailed GitHub merged request , users stated that the Multi-Agent V2 protocol-infused architecture of the CLI no longer ex…

These days, application developers can take their pick from a vast menu of architectural solutions. We can choose from the well-understood to the experimental, and from blended solutions in between. Several powerful middle-ground technologies that emerged during the cloud revolution have really come of age. Here we’ll take a look at putting together three of the most impressive: GitHub, Vercel, a…

On the first day of Software Engineering 101, you learned about the SDLC — the software development life cycle. You learned that there is a whole lot more to producing quality software than writing some code and deploying it to production. We’ve studied the SDLC every which way, and we know where and how time is spent within it. The coding is the most interesting part of the SDLC. It is one of a …

The first time I heard someone say their AI now wrote 80% of their tests, I asked the obvious question. Eighty percent of what? After 20 years building and leading test automation for consumer-scale platforms, my honest answer turned out to be eighty percent of the typing , not eighty percent of the engineering . The remaining twenty was where the work still lived. Budgeting for two percent of le…

Red Hat OpenShift 4.22, an update to the company’s hybrid cloud application platform, is now generally available. The release focuses on cutting cloud infrastructure costs, simplifying operations of virtualized workloads, and securing sensitive data. Announced July 14 , Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 continues to harden the platform foundation to meet growing security standards, helping reduce the manual…

Port has rolled out Port AI Builder, a vibe coding platform designed for software development and platform engineering teams. Announced July 14, Port AI Builder lets teams create and run agentic workflows in natural language, with built-in human-in-the-loop review and approval. The platform lets organizations apply AI agents across the SDLC (software development life cycle), drawing on domain ski…

When an HTTP request is too long or complex to be encoded in its URI using GET, developers have long resorted to using the POST method as a workaround. However, this can create issues; while GET requests are defined as safe and idempotent, POST does not necessarily share those characteristics. To combat the problem, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published a proposed standard HTTP…

Oracle on Tuesday expanded its AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications with new pro-code development tools, including a CLI-based capability called AI Studio Skill, allowing developers to build agentic applications using familiar environments such as VS Code, Codex, and Claude Code. The AI Studio Skill is the CLI that provides the Fusion-specific context and tooling that AI coding assistants need…

It’s been several years since generative AI and large language models (LLMs) took the world by storm. LLMs surpassed earlier natural-language systems at generating text, while diffusion models enabled generating images, music, and videos. These generative AI models work well in the digital world, but on their own, they have limited capabilities to comprehend the three-dimensional physical world a…

For decades, software engineering has been plagued by “productivity theater.” Every few years, the industry aligns around a new vanity metric — usually one that latches onto whatever technology happens to be in vogue at the time. For a discipline rooted in creativity and problem-solving, this is a poor way to demonstrate progress. Yet, we find ourselves in this position once again. The pattern is…

The model of the forward deployed engineer is sweeping through enterprise IT like a gold rush, and I’m concerned that many companies don’t understand what they’re signing up for. Let’s start with the headline numbers. AWS announced a $1 billion investment in a new Forward Deployed Engineering organization. Google Cloud committed $750 million to expand similar programs. Microsoft has been running …

Visual Studio Code 1.128, the most recent edition of Microsoft’s code editor , adds support for multi-chat agent sessions using Anthropic Claude agents. Introduced July 8, VS Code 1.28 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac from code.visualstudio.com . With VS Code 1.28, multi-chat agent sessions now support using Anthropic Claude agents. With multiple chats, a session can contain related c…

OpenClaw’s announcement that it has become a nonprofit foundation is generating IT excitement because of the potential for governance and development consistency that the popular platform has thus far lacked. Still, some worry about the risks created by the move. “Our ambition is for OpenClaw to be the Switzerland of AI. Neutral ground where every model and every lab can plug into the technology …

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0, a native port of the company’s strongly typed version of the JavaScript language based on the Go programming language . With this new codebase, TypeScript 7.0 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds, Microsoft said in a July 8 announcement . This…