GitHub’s Outage Exposed How Dependent Coding Has Become on AI
GitHub's nearly eight-hour outage on August 17 revealed that Copilot runs on a genuinely separate authentication and routing…
Best AI Coding Assistants for Beginners
A practical starting guide to AI coding assistants for beginners, covering autocomplete, chat-based help, and when to move…
Rust Adopts a Formal Policy on LLM Use
The Rust programming language's core project adopted a formal policy restricting LLM-authored contributions after months of debate over…
DeepSeek’s New Model Costs Pennies
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 exited preview at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, beating DeepSeek's own 1.6-trillion-parameter Pro model on agentic coding benchmarks.
Microsoft’s New Copilot Default Model
Microsoft's in-house coding model, reported as Project Polaris, replaces GPT-4 Turbo as GitHub Copilot's default engine starting August…