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What Are Super Agents and Do They Actually Work Yet?
Every AI tool your team uses still needs you in the loop for every step. Nothing moves while you are in…
Best AI Code Generation Tools: A Builder's Breakdown
Most developers already know which AI code generation tools exist. The harder question is whether they'…
AI Code Review Tools: 8 Options for the Agent Era
GitHub reported in 2023 that developers using Copilot completed tasks 55.8% faster than control groups.…
Best AI Coding Agents in 2026: Ranked and Compared
Most comparisons of the best AI coding agents treat this as a feature competition. Which tool has the c…
AI Copilot for Development: Why Context Is the Real Differentiator
Your team adopted a coding copilot six months ago. Completion rates are up, boilerplate takes less time…
What Is Vibe Coding (and How to Actually Do It at Scale)
A year ago, Andrej Karpathy posted a thread about a new way he was building software. He described acce…
How to Build Agentic Coding Workflows That Actually Ship
Agentic coding workflows fail at a predictable point, and it's not the model. The culprit is almost alw…
From Voice Notes to Production Code: Yes, You Can Ship from WhatsApp
Some of the best ideas don’t happen at a desk. They come mid-conversation, on the go, or while you’re t…
How AI Development Is Moving from Specialized Agents to Orchestration
Specialized coding agents got AI development off the ground. But as general-purpose models like Claude …
Why Code Review Will Determine Who Wins in the AI Era
For decades, software engineering was defined by writing code. But that balance has shifted. With AI co…
SWE Agents are Better with Codemods
Coding assistants like Cursor have brought us into a new era of programming.But there's a class of prog…
Act via Code
Two and a half years since the launch of the GPT-3 API, code assistants have emerged as potentially the…
Codegen Weekly Diff
The past week’s releases focus on refinement — polishing UI consistency, strengthening integrations, an…
Codegen On-Prem Deployment: Bring the OS for Code Agents In House
If your organization can’t move code or logs outside its network, you shouldn’t have to sit out the age…
Introducing Codegen 3.0: The Operating System for Code Agents
Software development is undergoing its biggest transformation since the compiler. Code generation has u…
Codegen + Linear: Where Tickets Become Code
Backlogs don’t clear themselves. But now, they can feel like they do. With our new Codegen + Linear int…
Case Study: How Warmly’s CSMs Ship Production Features with Codegen
About Warmly Warmly’s person-level intent platform makes marketing more precise by identifying ideal cu…
Customer Success Story: Lambda Curry
For Lambda Curry, a modern software company building fast-moving products, traditional development work…
Case Study: AI-Powered SQLAlchemy Upgrade
Upgrading your tech stack is like cleaning out your closet. You know it needs to happen, but, ah, it’s …
SWE Agents are Better with Codemods
Coding assistants like Cursor have brought us into a new era of programming.But there's a class of prog…
Automating Dead Code Removal with AI and Static Analysis
Dead Code Removal Sucks ☠️ Dead code is a perennial source of tech debt in large codebases. As unused c…
Case Study: AI-Powered SQLAlchemy Upgrade
Upgrading your tech stack is like cleaning out your closet. You know it needs to happen, but, ah, it’s …