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10/17/2025

Catch up on the latest AI features that might improve your development workflow here ⬇️

The Azure DevOps MCP server acts as an intermediary between AI assistants and the Azure DevOps organization.

10/15/2025

During its API Summit today, Kong announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs.

During its API Summit today, Kong announced several new features to help improve the way developers manage their APIs.

09/18/2025

We attended MongoDB.local NYC yesterday, and covered all the major news announced at the conference:

◾Search and Vector Search were added to Community Edition and Enterprise Server

◾Queryable Encryption now has partial match support

◾MongoDB MCP Server is now available

◾MongoDB AMP was announced, combining AI automation with real MongoDB experts to help with application modernization efforts

MongoDB announced that Search and Vector Search capabilities are now available in preview in the Community Edition and Enterprise Server.

08/29/2025

In the world of UI automation, the phrase, “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,” isn't just a cliché; it's a fundamental principle.

08/29/2025

Catch up on all the AI updates we covered from the past month here ⬇️

Anthropic has started testing an extension for Chrome that will enable Claude to take action on websites on behalf of the user.

08/27/2025

Microsoft has released the August update for Visual Studio 2022, adding several AI features, including:

◾Support for GPT-5
◾General availability of MCP support
◾Better semantic code search and more model choices in Copilot Chat

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

08/27/2025

The product analytics company Amplitude is announcing new self-service capabilities that will enable marketing and growth teams to run user experiments without waiting on development teams.

The company is launching four new Web Experimentation features, including rearrange elements, control variant editing, group cohort targeting, and out-of-the-box widgets.

The company is launching four new Web Experimentation features, including rearrange elements, control variant editing, group cohort targeting, and out-of-the-box widgets.

08/05/2025

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet.

.NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that enables developers to build distributed apps with observability built in.

07/29/2025

According to Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey, 46% of respondents don't trust the outputs of AI tools, up from 31% last year.

84% of respondents say they are using or plan to use AI tools for development, but 46% say they don’t trust the output of those AI tools.

07/07/2025

Catch up on the latest news in our weekly roundup. This week, we're covering updates from Cloudflare, Perplexity, Microsoft, Gartner, BrowserStack, Mirantis, and Amazon.

Cloudflare explained that by switching to a permission-based model, it is eliminating the need for content owners to manually configure settings in order to opt out.

07/02/2025

The drive for developer productivity may actually be making developers less productive by introducing “gray work" aka time spent chasing down information from different tools or people.

Maya Palfreyman from Quickbase shares insights into how gray work impacts developers, how to factor gray work into planning, and key takeaways from Quickbase's Gray Work Index survey.

Gray work can be defined as anything that gets in the way of your day-to-day job, like chasing down information or people.

07/02/2025

This article synthesizes perspectives from cognitive science, software engineering, and organizational governance to examine how AI tools impact both the quality of software delivery and the evolution of human expertise.

The long-term value of AI requires responsible integration, cognitive skill preservation, and systemic thinking.