Google Bets Agents Replace Apps. Here Is What That Means For Your IT Stack

Google retired Vertex AI and launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026. Here is how the Build, Scale, ...
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Level up your Java coding with AI tools

AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and IntelliJ IDEA are changing how Java developers code, debug, and modernize applications. From automating boilerplate to guiding framework upgrades, these tools ...

OpenAI’s Codex now has a tiny AI pet that keeps you updated while you code

OpenAI has introduced Codex Pets, optional animated companions for its Codex desktop app that sit on your screen and track what the coding agent is doing in real time.
PCMag

OpenAI’s Cute New AI ‘Pets’ Can Help You Vibe Code

Codex’s AI ‘pets’ act as floating overlays on your screen, giving you progress updates while you work on other tasks in ...
Communications of the ACM

Yourdon Had a Point

Doug Meil is a software architect in healthcare data management and analytics, and an ACM Senior Member. He also founded the Cleveland Big Data Meetup in 2010. More of his BLOG@CACM posts can be found ...
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I switched from VS Code's marketplace to Open VSX, and Microsoft's is the one falling behind

Truly open-source marketplace you can use with VSCodium.

If AI Is The Answer, What's The Question? How To Decide What To Vide Code

Everyone's asking how to use AI. Nobody's asking the right question first. Here's what to do before you open Claude Cowork.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

AWS brings OpenAI’s AI models and Codex programming assistant to its cloud

OpenAI Group PBC’s large language models available on its cloud platform. The algorithms are accessible through Amazon ...