When I was a kid, we all marveled at the notion of the Star Trek computer that you’d just talk to and that would answer all your questions. It seemed impossibly fantastic and categorically impossible. Well, we have that now. In one episode, Captain Kirk used a universal translator to communicate with an alien (never mind that…
The backlash was inevitable. For the past year, Silicon Valley has been telling us that software development is on the verge of becoming a prompt-and-ship exercise. You know, just describe what you want and let an AI coding agent build it. Sure, maybe you could keep a few token senior engineers around to bless the…
There’s no denying the excitement around Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open protocol for connecting AI assistants with external data, tools, and APIs. Since its debut by Anthropic in late 2024, thousands of MCP servers have emerged for devops, cloud, and beyond. Now that developers have integrated MCP servers into applications, and they have been…
I trust Claude Code. Back in March, I wrote about why I pity the developers who haven’t yet jumped on the agentic coding bandwagon. I also pity the developers just starting out, who will never quite understand the power that they now have at their fingertips. But most of all, I really pity the developers…
Lemonade, created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with…
At Kubecon Europe recently, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman said something that surprised me. After more than a year of AI-based pull requests and security reports that were worthless, living up to their nickname of “slop,” suddenly in the last month or so Kroah-Hartman discovered that those reports had become useful. At the time he…
If you came up building software in the 1990s or early 2000s, you remember the visceral satisfaction of determinism. You wrote code. The compiler analyzed it, optimized it, and emitted precisely the machine instructions you expected. Same input, same output. Every single time. There was an engineering rigor to it that shaped how an entire generation…
The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible and modular open-source framework for developing and deploying AI agents. It is optimized for Gemini and the Google ecosystem, but the ADK is model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, and built for compatibility with other frameworks. The ADK was designed to make agent development feel more like software development, to…
GitHub has introduced an experimental Rubber Duck mode in the GitHub Copilot CLI. The latest addition to the AI-powered coding tool uses a second model from a different AI family to provide a second opinion before enacting the agent’s plan. The new feature was announced April 6. Introduced in experimental mode, Rubber Duck leverages a…
When a coding assistant starts looking like it’s cutting corners, developers notice. A senior director in AMD’s AI Group has publicly needled Anthropic’s Claude Code for what she calls a tendency to skim the hard bits, offering answers that land but don’t quite stick. The gripe isn’t about outright failure so much as fading rigor,…
