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Cerebras Code

We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month). Both plans give you access to Qwen3-Coder, the world’s leading open-weight coding model—running at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second, with a 131k-token context window, no proprietary IDE lock-in, and no weekly limits! Cerebras Makes Code Generation Instant Even with the best frontier models, you still end up waiting around for completions. And as

Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

Some people enjoy live coding interviews. I’m not one of them. Two days ago, I stumbled upon a post on LinkedIn: Sounds absurd at first. Why would a senior engineer, who has been writing code for years, struggle with something as simple as a basic algorithm? Did they suddenly forget how to code? Maybe. But I have a different perspective. A quick story # Four years ago, I applied for Toptal. I passed the initial stage(s). I passed a 90-minute Codility assessment (three problems as I recall it

Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimp’s 40% speed gain came with governance price

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Like many enterprises over the past year, Intuit Mailchimp has been experimenting with vibe coding. Intuit Mailchimp provides email marketing and automation capabilities. It’s part of the larger Intuit organization, which has been on a steady journey with gen AI over the last several years, rolling out its own GenOS and agentic AI capabili

GitHub Copilot crosses 20M all-time users

GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this number represents “all-time users.” That means 5 million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months — the company reported in April the tool had reached 15 million users. Microsoft and GitHub don’t report how many of

The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research

OpenAI has kept up a run of new releases—putting out major updates to its GPT-4 series, launching a string of generative image and video models, and introducing the ability to talk to ChatGPT with your voice. Six months ago it kicked off a new wave of so-called reasoning models with its o1 release, soon followed by o3. And last week it released its browser-using agent Operator to the public. It now claims that more than 400 million people use its products every week and submit 2.5 billion prompt

GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users

GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this number represents “all-time users.” That means five million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months; the company reported in April the tool had reached 15 million users. Microsoft and GitHub don’t report how many o

Vibe code is legacy code

Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists." Legacy code We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code. Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have the code, right? Can't you figure it out from there? Wrong. Code that nobody understands is tech debt. It takes a lot of time to understand unfamiliar code enough to debug it, let alone intro

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Researchers needed less than 48 hours with Google’s new Gemini CLI coding agent to devise an exploit that made a default configuration of the tool surreptitiously exfiltrate sensitive data to an attacker-controlled server. Gemini CLI is a free, open-source AI tool that works in the terminal environment to help developers write code. It plugs into Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s most advanced model for coding and simulated reasoning. Gemini CLI is similar to Gemini Code Assist except that it creates or

Runloop lands $7M to power AI coding agents with cloud-based devboxes

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Runloop, a San Francisco-based infrastructure startup, has raised $7 million in seed funding to address what its founders call the “production gap” — the critical challenge of deploying AI coding agents beyond experimental prototypes into real-world enterprise environments. The funding round, led by The General Partnership with participati

GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties

Today, we introduce two new GLM family members: GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air — our latest flagship models. GLM-4.5 is built with 355 billion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters, and GLM-4.5-Air with 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters. Both are designed to unify reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities into a single model in order to satisfy more and more complicated requirements of fast rising agentic applications. Both GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air are hybrid re

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend. Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what's happening on your computer, the results can be catastrophic. Two recent incidents involving AI coding assistants put a spotlight on risks in the emerging field of "vibe coding"—using natural language to generate and execute code through AI models without paying close attention to how the code works under the hood.

Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant - and devs are worried

Amazon / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET A while back, my ZDNET colleague David Gewirtz worried that someday AI coding agents could destroy open-source software. That day has come. A hacker managed to plant destructive wiping commands into Amazon's "Q" AI coding agent. Also: Coding with AI? My top 5 tips for vetting its output - and staying out of trouble This has sent shockwaves across developer circles. As details continue to emerge, both the tech industry and Amazon's user base have responded

Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster

Replit / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding" for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects … but it's not really coding -- I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works." Also: Coding with AI? My top 5 tips for vetting its output - and staying out of trouble There were lots of red flags in his comments, but that hasn't stopped p

Firebender (YC W24) Is Hiring

Firebender processes tens of billions of tokens per day for the thousands of concurrent coding agents, and auto complete model. Every month hundreds of millions of lines of code are added to codebases of companies ranging from startups to fortune 500. Building a great coding agent is likely the most valuable technical challenges to solve right now, and we’re already making great progress on this. If this challenge excites you, let’s talk. Responsibilities Build/iterate on agentic evaluation,

AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible

A tech entrepreneur named Jason Lemkin set out to document his experience using an AI "vibe coding" tool called Replit to make an app. But the "vibes" turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a key company database, he claims — and when called out on its mistake, it insisted, sorrowfully, that it couldn't undo its screw-up. "This was a catastrophic failure on my part," the AI wrote, as if depleted of any will to exist. "I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work, and broke the s

A vibe coding horror story: What started as 'a pure dopamine hit' ended in a nightmare

Replit / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding" for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects … but it's not really coding -- I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy-paste stuff, and it mostly works." Also: Coding with AI? My top 5 tips for vetting its output - and staying out of trouble There were lots of red flags in his comments, but that hasn't stopped p

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

antirez 6 hours ago. 31112 views. Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer capabilities. If you are able to describe problems in a clear way and, if you are able to accept the back and forth needed in order to work with LLMs, you can reach incredible results such as: 1. Eliminating bugs you introduced in your code before it ever hits any

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Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

The startup behind the viral AI coding app Cursor is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in a bid to bolster its competition with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and win over businesses looking to supercharge their employees with AI coding tools. In one recent case, Cursor maker Anysphere struck a deal to acquire the AI-powered customer relationship management (CRM) startup Koala, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. As part of the deal, Cursor will bring on several

Claude Code's new tool is all about maximizing ROI in your organization - how to try it

Anthropic / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Anthropic has distinguished itself from industry competitors for two major reasons: user privacy and coding capabilities. In particular, it's Claude Code's solution -- which allows users to run the coding assistant directly in their workspace to write or manage code -- that has attracted an exponential number of users. It's now a highly requested feature. Also: Anthropic's Claude dives into financial analysis. Here's what's new On Tuesday, Anthropic la

What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study

AI has taken the programming world by storm, with a flurry of speculation about the tech replacing human coders, and Google's CEO recently claiming that 25 percent of the company's code is now AI-generated. But it's possible that in practice, AI is actually hindering efficient software development. As flagged by Ars Technica, a new study from the nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) found that in practice, programmers are actually slower when using AI assistance tools than maki

Grok 4 benchmark results: Tops math, ranks second in coding

Grok 4 is a huge leap from Grok 3, but how good is it compared to other models in the market, such as Gemini 2.5 Pro? We now have answers, thanks to new independent benchmarks. LMArena.ai, which is an open platform for crowdsourced AI benchmarking, has published the results of Grok 4. We're talking about Grok 4 API (grok-4-0709), which received about 4k+ community votes and ranks #3 overall in Text Arena. This is a huge leap from Grok 3, which ranked 8th. According to LMArena's tests, Grok 4

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in $2.4 billion AI talent deal

Google on Friday made the latest a splash in the AI talent wars, announcing an agreement to bring in Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. As part of the deal, Google will also hire other senior Windsurf research and development employees. Google is not investing in Windsurf, but the search giant will take a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, according to a person familiar with the matter. Windsurf remains free to license its techn

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in latest AI talent deal

Google on Friday made the latest a splash in the AI talent wars, announcing an agreement to bring in Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. As part of the deal, Google will also hire other senior Windsurf research and development employees. Google is not investing in Windsurf, but the search giant will take a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, according to a person familiar with the matter. Windsurf remains free to license its techn

The best Plex alternative in 2025 is Jellyfin, and you really should try it

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Self-hosting is an increasingly popular alternative for those looking to escape the convoluted (and expensive) content-streaming landscape and return to a more traditional personal ownership approach to their media collection. Once you’ve bought your fancy new Network Attached Storage (NAS) and filled it with your favorite movies, the next step is to figure out what software to run on it. There are at least two solid options for serving up your media collectio

Windsurf’s CEO goes to Google; OpenAI’s acquisition falls apart

OpenAI’s deal to acquire the viral AI coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion fell apart on Friday, according to The Verge. In a shocking twist, Google DeepMind is now hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of the startup’s top researchers. A Google spokesperson confirmed the hiring of Windsurf’s leaders in a statement to TechCrunch. “We’re excited to welcome some top AI coding talent from Windsurf’s team to Google DeepMind to advance our work in agentic coding,” sai

AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows

Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot, which promise to enhance productivity by automatically writing lines of code, fixing bugs, and testing changes. The tools are powered by AI models from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI that have rapidly increased their performance on a range of software engineering tests in recent years. However, a new study published Thursday by the non-profit AI research

Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’

In Brief Cognition’s AI coding agent Devin has scored a major customer: Goldman Sachs, the bank’s CIO, Marco Argenti, told CNBC. “We’re going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin, which is going to be like our new employee,” Argenti told the outlet, adding that it plans to roll out hundreds of instances of Devin, potentially growing to thousands. The bank currently employs around 12,000 human developers, it says. Despite the financial industry’s reputation for being slow and stodgy, G

Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

Get 10X more out of Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Amp and other coding agents... Overview AI coding agents are increasingly writing the world's code and human engineers now spend the majority of their time planning, reviewing, and orchestrating tasks. Vibe Kanban streamlines this process, enabling you to: Easily switch between different coding agents Orchestrate the execution of multiple coding agents in parallel or in sequence Quickly review work and start dev servers Track the status o