AI-based coding tools won't be able to compete with the LLM giants. Observability is one possible way to differentiate the tools. Some startups will get acquired, others will go out of business.

Microsoft has launched App Builder, a new AI agent that can be used to create apps using conversational language in just a few minutes. App Builder is based on Copilot and has a familiar workflow: ...

Have you ever felt like you’re pouring money into AI coding tools, only to be left with mediocre results and mounting costs? Platforms like Lovable, Replet, and V0 by Versel promise simplicity and ...

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is ...

Google has announced a redesigned development flow in Google AI Studio called “Vibe coding” powered by Gemini models. The experience is built to compress the traditional multi-step app-building ...

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The same prompts in GPT-5 yield success, crashes, or errors. OpenAI's prompt optimizer helps, but introduces its own quirks. AI "unconsciously" adding details raises trust concerns. Do AI's get ...

AI has made it somewhat easier for non-developers to create apps but using ChatGPT with Unity in macOS, but it won't turn you into John Carmack overnight. The growth of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the company’s engineers were using AI coding tools to complete tasks more quickly. Tasks that would have taken “three, four days” now take “one hour,” Srinivas ...