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Latest story• Sep 17, 2025

Heroku AI Studio is Your Workspace for Smarter, Faster AI Apps

Heroku AI Studio offers an interactive workspace for faster AI app development, eliminating the cycle of tweaking prompts and waiting for results. This toolset for the Heroku Managed Inference and Agents add-on allows direct engagement with models in a real-time sandbox. Developers can understand model nuances, tune prompts, ensure proper tool use, and integrate code into their apps. Users with the add-on can access...

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Stop Chasing Low-Stakes Incidents: Let AI Do It

AI incident management tools handle routine issues, suppress duplicates, automate triage, and execute remediation runbooks, allowing engineers to focus on critical problems while improving service reliability and operational...

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GitHub launches MCP Registry to provide central location for trusted servers

GitHub's new MCP Registry provides a centralized directory for trusted MCP servers connecting AI agents to development tools. Users can sort options by GitHub stars and community activity, with each server linked to its...

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Gemini just aced the world's most elite coding competition - what it means for AGI

Google's Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model excelled at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest, solving 10 of 12 problems and surpassing most human teams. It uniquely solved a problem that stumped all human competitors...

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Is GitHub Actions suitable for running benchmarks?

GitHub Actions can effectively run relative benchmarks by comparing two commits in the same job, canceling out hardware variability. Testing identical commits over 16 days showed this method reliably detects performance...

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Meet Macroscope: an AI tool for understanding your code base, fixing bugs

Former Periscope founders launched Macroscope, an AI tool that helps developers understand codebases, catch bugs, and summarize changes without excessive meetings. The system integrates with GitHub and other tools to analyze code...

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Building an SVG Editor with Konva.js

Konva.js enables developers to build SVG editors with interactive features like importing graphics, manipulation, and exporting. This JavaScript library extends HTML5 Canvas by providing essential components like Stage, Layers,...

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Komodo - Manage Docker Images & Containers Across Multiple Servers

Komodo unifies Docker container management, monitoring, and deployment across unlimited servers, offering real-time control, automation, and comprehensive infrastructure management through a centralized platform with both UI and...

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Let’s kill vibe coding and bring back prompt engineering

The AI development landscape has shifted from prompt engineering to "vibe coding," where developers let AI work without formal planning. This trend, popularized by OpenAI's Andrej Karpathy in 2025, has surged while prompt...

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From 8 years down to 6 months: How we built AI to split the monday.com monolith

A decade's worth of code, trapped in a massive JavaScript monolith, has been freed in just six months by an AI system called Morphex at monday.com. What engineers initially estimated would take eight person-years of manual effort...

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SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data

SerpApi allows developers to extract search engine data from Google, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and others via simple API requests. It provides structured JSON data for various search types, including standard results, maps, flights, and...

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Text Processing Made Easy with spaCy

spaCy leverages statistical models to process language, enabling developers to analyze text through part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and dependency parsing. The powerful NLP library can identify grammatical roles...

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Stop Using parseInt - Here's Why It's Slowing You Down

JavaScript's parseInt slows code when misused for truncating numbers instead of converting strings to integers. Math.trunc() is a faster, clearer alternative that properly removes decimal portions and works with negative numbers,...

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Task Automation in Next.js Using CopilotKit

CopilotKit enables task automation in Next.js applications by integrating AI assistants that understand app data and take actions on behalf of users. The framework allows developers to implement features like automated email...

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Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

Microsoft is automatically selecting AI models in Visual Studio Code, with paid GitHub Copilot users mainly using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 instead of OpenAI's GPT-5. Internal guidance recommends Claude Sonnet 4 for GitHub...

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OpenAI launches GPT-5-Codex with a 74.5% success rate on real world coding

OpenAI's new GPT-5-Codex achieves a 74.5% success rate on real-world coding tasks, significantly outperforming previous models. The purpose-built coding assistant uses 93.7% fewer tokens for lightweight tasks while spending more...

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No-Code's Promise vs Reality: What Are We Actually Solving?

The no-code movement promises to transform everyone into developers, but its reality shows specific utility rather than revolution. No-code tools excel at rapid prototyping, workflow automation, and freeing developers from...

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MCP Security: A Developer’s Guide

Docker has acquired MCP Defender to enhance security for AI agents and workflows. This acquisition addresses growing security concerns in agentic AI, with Docker planning to implement runtime monitoring, policy enforcement, and...

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AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy

AI Code Detector by Span identifies AI-generated code with 95% accuracy for TypeScript and Python using a machine learning model. This tool works with any AI coding assistant without integrations or manual tagging, analyzing code...

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Using Agent in the Middle To Ride Herd on Wayward AI

EveGuard, a $3 million seed-funded platform, monitors AI agents' behavior in businesses, detecting risks and reducing alerts while allowing CISOs to balance AI adoption with security, especially for critical systems and sensitive...

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MetalBear’s Mirrord Gives AI Agents a Staging Environment To Test Their Code

Mirrord, a tool by MetalBear, now enables AI coding agents to test in staging environments by intercepting local processes and routing them to staging clusters, streamlining debugging and integration without container deployment...

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Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content

Apple introduced a private CSS property called -apple-visual-effect that enables Liquid Glass effects in web content within iOS apps. The property works with different glass and blur materials but isn't available for public...

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An AI-Powered Development Workflow for Solo Builders

The digital graveyard of unfinished side projects haunts countless developers, but one seasoned coder has found a way to revive those dreams using AI orchestration. "The fundamental challenge isn't technical complexity, it's...

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Transformer Architecture

Transformers improved AI language models by using attention mechanisms with Query, Key, and Value matrices to understand word relationships, enabling efficient prediction of the next word in sequences.

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