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Eight reasons coding agents are better than software developers

Are you still writing your own code? At this point, refusing to use coding agents is a career-limiting move.

By Nick Hodges

Oct 21, 20264 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

US bans DeepSeek across federal agencies, putting AI supply chains under scrutiny

By Taryn Plumb

Oct 20, 20267 mins

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Local AI on NPUs: Building a zero-cloud photo deduplicator with OpenCLIP

Your laptop’s idle NPU can sort 100 gigabytes of family photos about 3 times faster than the CPU, without draining the battery or touching the cloud.

By Oleg Mikheev

Oct 13, 2026 11 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AILibraries and Frameworks

AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity

As GitHub expands its third-party coding agents to Claude and Codex, it hopes to cement developer loyalty to its own platform.

By Matt Asay

Oct 13, 2026 7 mins

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TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development

Tune into the future of AI and software engineering at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (October 13-15 in San Francisco). Register with promo code INFOWORLD25 for a 25% discount.

By TechCrunch Disrupt

Oct 13, 2026 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

Hands-on agentic development with Google’s Antigravity IDE

With Antigravity IDE and its coding agents, it takes no time at all to build a functioning web app with Astro, HTMX, and SQLite — if you know your code.

By Matthew Tyson

Oct 12, 2026 11 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AIIntegrated Development Environments

As AI agents grow, vendors carve out decision-making as a separate model layer

AWS, OpenAI, and Cloudflare are embracing a new class of model designed to handle bounded decisions, raising questions about governance, calibration, and operational overhead.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 9, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box

Designed for local development, the sandbox uses operating system isolation rather than a dedicated virtual machine, but its architecture expands the code that must be trusted to enforce security policies.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Oct 8, 2026 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

Five keys to controlling AI token costs

LLM APIs are powerful — and expensive. Take advantage of model routing, semantic caching, prompt caching, reranking, and response constraints to control the spend.

By Matthew Tyson

Oct 7, 2026 11 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

ServiceNow takes aim at enterprise AI’s workflow bottleneck with AI Workflow Factory

The new capabilities are designed to help enterprises move from one-off AI projects to continuous workflow automation.

By Gyana Swain

Oct 6, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

OpenAI bets enterprises are ready to delegate real work to autonomous agents

Dots, Codex Cloud, and an expanded Agents API signal OpenAI’s push to make autonomous, long-running AI practical and cheaper for enterprise tasks.

By Taryn Plumb

Sep 30, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

Stack Overflow expands Stack Internal to give AI agents 'trusted' enterprise knowledge

The new capabilities could shorten development cycles and help scale agentic deployments in enterprises, but analysts warn that they could also create additional knowledge validation, security, and governance work.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 30, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsSoftware Development

Unsloth’s model picker had a code-execution problem

Just selecting a model in Unsloth Studio could automatically execute Python code from its repository, potentially exposing credentials, data and model artifacts.

By Shweta Sharma

Sep 30, 2026 4 mins

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