Save money by canceling more software projects, says survey

Enterprises should be more ruthless about cancelling projects. That’s according to project management software company Tempo, which surveyed 667 project planning leaders at the end of last year. It found that those who deployed better scenario planning and acted ruthlessly is assessing a project’s viability would be better off. According to the survey, 90% of…

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Microsoft accelerates pace of VS Code development

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer,  the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but starting from March 9 the changes will come weekly, it announced on GitHub. Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor that is…

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Databricks launches Genie Code to automate data science and engineering tasks

Databricks has launched Genie Code, a new AI agent, to help enterprise data practitioners automate data science and engineering tasks. Available as a panel inside Databricks’ notebooks, SQL Editor, and Lakeflow Pipelines editor, Genie Code can be used to plan, build, deploy, and maintain end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows, including automating experiment tracking with MLflow,…

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The AI coding hangover

For the past few years, I’ve watched a specific story sell itself in boardrooms: “Software will soon be free.” The pitch is simple: Large language models can write code, which is the bulk of what developers do. Therefore, enterprises can shed developers, point an LLM at a backlog, and crank out custom business systems at…

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Migrating Python to Rust with Claude: What could go wrong?

Take a wild ride with us, as we use a large language model to convert a Python app to Rust. Also, could Pandas finally compel you to ditch Excel? And, is Python’s native JIT the Python performance booster we’ve all been waiting for? All this and more, in this week’s report. Top picks for Python…

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Gemini CLI introduces plan mode

Google has added a plan mode to Gemini CLI, its open-source software engineering agent that runs on the command line. With plan mode, announced March 11, Gemini CLI focuses first on analyzing a request, planning complex changes, and understanding the codebase or dependencies in a read-only mode that is safe from accidental changes or executions….

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JetBrains unveils AI tracing library for Kotlin and Java

JetBrains has introduced Tracy, an AI tracing library for the Kotlin and Java languages. Announced March 11 and accessible from GitHub, Tracy helps developers trace, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered features directly from their Kotlin or Java projects, JetBrains said. The open-source Kotlin library provides a unified API to capture structured traces and helps developers debug failures,…

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