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Firebase Studio adds autonomous Agent mode, MCP support, Gemini CLI

Google’s cloud-based, AI-assisted development environment offers three different modes of interacting with the company’s Gemini AI model.

Jul 15, 2025 2 mins
Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI
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Visual Studio Code bolsters Copilot Chat, MCP support

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support for the Model Context Protocol.

Jul 11, 2025 3 mins
Development Tools Generative AI Visual Studio Code
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Get started with Google Agent Development Kit

Use the Python version of Google's agent development toolkit to quickly develop AI-powered agents with diverse workflows.

Jul 9, 2025 9 mins
Development Tools Generative AI Google Cloud Platform
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The ultimate software engineering abstraction

Someday, we won’t even look at the code that our AI agent produces. We’ll take it for granted, just as we do the assembly code in our software today.

Jul 9, 2025 5 mins
Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI
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What you absolutely cannot vibe code right now

Large language models fail at hard and medium difficulty problems where they can’t stitch together well-known templates. You should still use them.

Jul 8, 2025 8 mins
Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI
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Advanced unit testing with JUnit 5, Mockito, and Hamcrest

Integrate Hamcrest and Mockito with JUnit 5 for more sophisticated unit testing with assertions, simulations, and behavior verification using Mockito spies.

Jul 7, 2025 17 mins
App Testing Development Tools Java
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OutSystems Mentor: An AI-powered digital assistant for the entire SDLC

Combining low-code, generative AI, and AI-driven guidance, Mentor provides intelligent, context-aware support from application creation through monitoring and governance.

Jul 7, 2025 7 mins
Development Tools Generative AI No Code and Low Code
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Working with Microsoft 365’s new Copilot APIs

Build AI into your enterprise content and knowledge management platform with 5 APIs that help you base your AI on enterprise data and speed up development.

Jul 3, 2025 8 mins
Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development
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Cloud finally gets some new competition

Cloudflare and Oracle are coming for the Big Three, but they’re doing it from different angles.

Jun 30, 2025 15 mins
Amazon Web Services Developer Oracle Database
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Rust-powered: Two new Python tools to watch

Pyrefly and Ty are so new they still smell like shrinkwrap, but we still took them both out for a spin. We also have a starter guide to Python's new type hints, a look ahead to what's on the horizon for free-threaded Python, a sneaky malwar

Jun 27, 2025 3 mins
Development Tools Python Rust