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By John K. Waters
JetBrains has launched a public preview of Air, a macOS tool designed to let developers run and manage multiple AI coding agents in one interface.<
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Our columnist offers his list of "must-know" AI experts.
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By John K. Waters
The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.
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By John K. Waters
In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat on Tuesday introduced the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, a co-engineered software platform that combines Red Hat AI Enterprise with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to help organizations deploy and operate AI systems at scale.
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By John K. Waters
If you’ve been using AI copilots to build on fast-moving platforms like Firebase, Android, or Google Cloud, you’ve probably hit the same wall: the model sounds confident… and is still wrong. Not because it’s “bad,” but because documentation changes faster than a model’s training cycle—and web-scraping your way to “freshness” is brittle at best. Google’s answer is a new public-preview pairing: the Developer Knowledge API and an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—a machine-readable, canonical gateway to Google’s official developer documentation.
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By John K. Waters
OpenAI is pitching GPT-5.3-Codex as a long-running “agent,” not just a code helper: The company says the model combines GPT-5.2-Codex coding strength with GPT-5.2 reasoning and professional knowledge, and runs about 25% faster to better handle multi-step work on a computer.
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By John K. Waters
Software developers are using AI tools more than ever, but many say their confidence in the results is slipping, according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which tracked rising adoption alongside growing demands for verification.
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By John K. Waters
Anthropic is widening access to the computer-using capabilities behind its Claude Code tool with a new research preview called Cowork, aiming to let non-technical workers delegate file-heavy tasks on their Macs while warning about the risks of giving an AI system the ability to act on local files.
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Our columnist explores the new "AI continuum" from a developer's perspective, dispels some misconceptions, addresses the skills gap, and offers some practical strategies for marshaling the power of agentic AI systems.
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By John K. Waters
TornadoVM, an open-source plug-in for OpenJDK and GraalVM that compiles and offloads Java code to accelerators such as GPUs, released version 2.0 last month, adding support for new data types and memory-handling features to improve performance and reduce overhead on heterogeneous systems.
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Time for a column update! The Citizen Developer is now Human-in-the-Loop!
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By John K. Waters
Protegrity, a data security company, has released software designed to help organizations secure artificial intelligence agent systems as businesses grapple with data protection concerns in AI deployments.
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By John K. Waters
Google this week rolled out Gemini 3, the latest version of its AI model family, with features aimed squarely at developers.
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By John K. Waters
DevOps platform provider JFrog introduces a new capability to help enterprises manage the risks associated with unregulated use of artificial intelligence.
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By John K. Waters
Last week, OpenAI quietly signed a $38 billion, seven-year compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The partnership, one of the largest cloud infrastructure deals ever reported, is not about new models or product launches—it’s about the infrastructure that will power those models. What it means for developers
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation releases an open-source framework to standardize how companies build and deploy AI agents across their operations.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub launches a new AI-powered application modernization capability designed to simplify and accelerate upgrades and migrations of legacy .NET and Java applications.
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Our columnist interviews the author of Prompting Made Simple: How to Use ChatGPT and Unlock the Power of AI (Making AI Simple for Everyone).
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By John K. Waters
OpenAI has officially opened the doors to a new developer ecosystem for ChatGPT, introducing in-chat applications and a developer SDK that allows third-party tools and services to integrate directly within ChatGPT conversations.
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By John K. Waters
Artificial intelligence startup Lemony launched a hardware-based device on Wednesday, designed to enable businesses to run generative AI systems on-premises without relying on the cloud.
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By John K. Waters
Google has expanded its Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Java to support a wider range of large language models (LLMs) through integration with the LangChain4j framework.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft unveiled new AI features on Wednesday aimed at accelerating application migration and modernization, highlighting updates to GitHub Copilot, Azure Migrate, and database migration services.
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By John K. Waters
Google announced on Wednesday the public release of its Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a tool designed to make the company's extensive collection of public datasets more accessible to AI developers and data scientists.
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By John K. Waters
In 2025, AI isn't just in the developer toolbox, it's the foundation of modern software engineering. Google Cloud's 2025 DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Report makes it plain: 90% of technology professionals now use AI at work, up 14% from 2024. Developers spend a median of two hours per day working with AI tools. Nearly two-thirds rely on AI for at least half their workflow, and one in twelve say their development work is now almost entirely AI-mediated.