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Why faster AI coding can mean harder engineering

Companies should be careful about budgeting as though AI has already given them both a larger road map and a smaller need for engineering expertise.

By Matt Asay

Sep 29, 20267 mins

Development ApproachesDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

Articles

OpenAI’s cyber defense letter gets the diagnosis right and the prescription wrong

More than 100 organizations just put their names on a warning that AI-enabled attacks will get far worse within months. Nearly every remedy they proposed activates after the attacker is already running code.

By Brad LaPorte

Sep 21, 2026 6 mins

CyberattacksCybercrimeData and Information Security

The cloud outage that should terrify the CIO

One cloud region, four AI giants, and a preview of what happens if your agents all share the same failure domain.

By David Linthicum

Sep 18, 2026 8 mins

Business ContinuityGenerative AISaaS

Stop tuning your models and fix your data

What building a conversational AI agent that could query internal infrastructure metrics taught us about the importance of the data foundation.

By Charlotte Daniels

Sep 17, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData and Information SecurityGenerative AI

How to keep AI-generated code aligned with your standards

Having a solid foundation of documentation, requirements, and QA will help keep AI technical debt from accumulating exponentially.

By Isaac Sacolick

Sep 16, 2026 10 mins

Application SecurityCI/CDData Governance

Software developers are all managers now

How we manage coding agents isn’t all that different from how we would manage a real live developer. What does that mean for our careers?

By Nick Hodges

Sep 16, 2026 4 mins

DeveloperGenerative AIRoles

How to get better results from local LLMs with Ollama

Thanks to recent Gemma 4 and Qwen releases, you can get some real generative AI work done on your own computer. Here’s how to optimize an Ollama setup.

By Sharon Machlis

Sep 15, 2026 13 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

The best IDE for agentic AI may not be an IDE at all

Developers are scrambling for tools to help them manage multiple coding agents, and coming up with useful tools of their own.

By Matt Asay

Sep 15, 2026 7 mins

Development ToolsGenerative AIIntegrated Development Environments

Why DBAs are right to be skeptical of AI — and where they’re wrong

You do not need to hand an LLM the keys to your database tomorrow. Start with read access to your monitoring data.

By Dave Page

Sep 14, 2026 8 mins

DatabasesPostgreSQLRelational Databases

OpenAI launches managed Agents API to simplify enterprise AI agent development

The new service packages orchestration, context management, and execution infrastructure into a single API, aiming to speed production deployments while raising fresh lock-in concerns.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 11, 2026 5 mins

APIsArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

Build your AI stack like you will need to replace it

Architecting with portability in mind is the best way to minimize lock-in as AI pricing models evolve. Price hikes are inevitable.

By Egon Rinderer

Sep 10, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISoftware Development

Databricks unveils adaptive AI retrieval model to cut search costs and latency

Adaptive Instructed-Retriever dynamically decides when queries need additional search steps, aiming to improve answer quality without driving up enterprise AI costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 9, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AI