Enterprise use of open source AI coding is changing the ROI calculation

Coders are understandably complaining about AI coding problems, with the technology often delivering what’s become known as “AI slop,” but their concerns are signaling a more strategic issue about how enterprises calculate coding ROI. The issues, according to IT analysts and consultants, go far beyond vastly faster production of code accompanied by the kinds of…

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Is your Node.js project really secure?

JavaScript and Node.js teams do not lack security tools. What they still lack is a dependency security workflow that developers will actually use before release. That is the real gap. A package gets installed, CI (continuous integration) runs, a scanner executes somewhere in the pipeline, and eventually a report appears. From a distance, that can…

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AI agents and bad productivity metrics

Here’s a little bit of snark from developer John Crickett on X: Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity. Also software engineers: I’m now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1,800 commits a day. Crickett’s quip lands perfectly because it is not actually a joke. It’s a preview of the next management fad, wherein we replace…

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A networking revolution at AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reshaping its underlying network foundation, a move that could redefine how enterprises approach cloud technology, costs, and operational efficiency. As enterprises contemplate next-generation workloads, from generative AI to globally distributed applications, AWS’s end-to-end custom networking stack is a new calculus for cloud economics, agility, and security. Let’s take a deeper…

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