If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. The friction of writing syntax has collapsed. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic workflows now living inside our Docker containers and IDEs, generating the first implementation of a distributed streaming pipeline or a complex API integration is no longer the central bottleneck.Agents can navigate repositories, write test coverage, inspect stack traces, and propose refactors. Describe a Kafka-to-Iceberg sink mapping in plain English, and an agent can produce a credible starting point before the engineer has opened every relevant file.That changes the question for software engineers.If the agent is becoming the primary author of local system logic, what exactly is left for [...]
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, [...]
Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a [...]
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]
Resolve AI, the production-operations startup backed by Greylock and Lightspeed Venture Partners, today announced a sweeping expansion of its platform that introduces always-on background agents, a re [...]
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]
Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]
Data engineers should be working faster than ever. AI-powered tools promise to automate pipeline optimization, accelerate data integration and handle the repetitive grunt work that has defined the pro [...]
Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the [...]