This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

I gave an AI agent one prompt and scored the codebase after every commit. Health 50 to 61, 10,000 lines gone, and a hard stop ...

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

Trained with reinforcement learning in real environments, Mellum2.1 is built for coding agents and fast sub-agents that run ...

AI agents are transforming legacy application modernization, but they still fail at three things. A grounded 2026 guide to ...

That old Java icon had a much bigger résumé than I gave it credit for.

"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...

Discover MCP Toolbox Java SDK v1.0: secure, type-safe agent orchestration for enterprise Java, with decoupled auth and AlloyDB & Spring Boot support.

Its regular expression engine was so good that other languages copied it, and its pragmatic philosophy of making easy things easy and hard things possible influenced Python, Ruby, and PHP. CPAN, its ...

Last time, I wrote about my frustrations with AI ignoring my prompts, so this time I would like to write about the opposite ...

Marit van Dijk is a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains with over 20 years of software development experience. She’s passionate about building great software with great people, and ...

A software developer with three years of experience says he has reached a troubling point in his career: AI can now handle ...