Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Savvy developers are realizing the advantages of writing explicit, consistent, well-documented code that agents easily understand. Boring makes agents more reliable.

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Agent skills shift AI agents toward procedural tasks with skill.md steps; progressive disclosure reduces context window bloat in real use.

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Apple has released Xcode 26.3 with support for autonomous coding agents, that can directly analyze projects, modify files, ...

Abstract: The quality of modern software relies heavily on the effective use of static code analysis tools. To improve their usefulness, these tools should be evaluated using a framework that ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Machine learning is an essential component of artificial intelligence. Whether it’s powering recommendation engines, fraud detection systems, self-driving cars, generative AI, or any of the countless ...

We evaluate DeepCode on the PaperBench benchmark (released by OpenAI), a rigorous testbed requiring AI agents to independently reproduce 20 ICML 2024 papers from scratch. The benchmark comprises 8,316 ...