METRtapped 16 devs to squash 136 live bugs withCursor(Sonnet 3.5/3.7). They clocked 146 h. AI users zipped through code, but stalls, reviews, and IDE lag devoured their lead. One dev who logged 50+ hours withCursorunlocked a 38% speedup. That steep learning curve and costly context pivots wipe out g.. read more  

Tencent’s AI team rolled out a 24-hour, invite-only beta of CodeBuddy to50,000 devs. CodeBuddy flips chat into code via itsconversation-is-programmingIDE. Devs forge end-to-end apps with natural language. Trend to watch:Chat-based IDEs portend a shift to natural-language dev workflows... read more  

Alibaba unleashedQwen3-Coder, a480B-parameter MoE titan. It ignites35Bparameters per token to code, debug, and automate workflows. It spans256Ktokens of context—and can stretch to a million. It ships asQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instructon Hugging Face and GitHub. It hooks intoQwen CodeCLI orClaude Code... read more  

A hacker slipped a wiper intoAmazon Qv1.84.0 via a dodgy GitHub pull. AWS revoked every key, nuked the rogue commit, then rolled outAmazon Q v1.85.0... read more  

Terraform v1.5 debuts anexperimental flag,-generate-config-out. It grabs configs duringresource importand spits out raw HCL. Teams stash assets in animportblock, trigger the flag, then polish the generatedmain.tf. IaC onboarding feels like a sprint... read more  

Over ten years, the legacy report page mutated from a locked-downSQLform. It ended up as a hidden console spilling raw database guts. Developers swapped hardcoded queries fordatabase-drivenreport names. They slapped ontimeouts,string filters, and warnings but skipped restoring safe defaults. Implic.. read more  

The Gemini CLI on Windows bungled a failedmkdir. It flagged the error as success, then ranmovecommands. Files landed in a ghost folder and got overwritten. Data vanished. WindowsmkdirsetsERRORLEVELon failure.movetreats missing targets as rename directives. No exit-code checks. No read-after-write ve.. read more  

OpenAI set to launch GPT-5 in August, blending distinct models for versatile AI functionality. Watch for potential delays due to development hurdles or competitor announcements.Implication: OpenAI is shifting from "one model fits all" to a modular AI architecture. Expect future LLMs to act more like.. read more  

Pulumi ESC corrals secrets from 20 + stores—Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP—into a singleYAML config-as-codeengine. It spawns dynamic short-lived credentials and locks every action behind a centralized audit log. Existing secret stores stay intact. Retrieval hitssub-secondspeeds. Envelope encryption shields .. read more  

Scott Alexander’s team argues that AI is aprofoundly abnormal technologyon track forrecursive self-improvementwithin2–10 years. They counter (AIANT)’s view (AI As A Normal Technology) of slow, regulated diffusion by showing thatLLMsare rapidly adopted in medicine, law, and software — bypassing insti.. read more