Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...

Did our AI summary help? Software engineering jobs may be heading for a major shake-up sooner than expected. According to Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, artificial intelligence could replace most ...

If you’ve ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could have never sculpted or built yourself. Download a model file, load some plastic ...

Pendo employees talk in a break area inside the Pendo building in downtown Raleigh. Travis Long tlong@newsobserver.com I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, ...

TIOBE Index for February 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent February’s TIOBE Index shows a leaderboard that looks steady at first glance, but small shifts beneath ...

For eight years, an Indian-origin software engineer, Akaash Vishal Hazarika based in Seattle has had a rare front-row seat to the changing world of Big Tech. Having worked at Google, Amazon, Splunk, ...

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Emergent Labs’ Mukund Jha discusses vibe coding and how AI is changing the software development landscape. We’re officially in the age of AI-built software. The excitement around vibe coding has ...