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Markdown is now a first-class coding language: Deal with it

Critics call Garry Tan’s gstack just a bunch of text files. They’re right — and that’s exactly why the future of agentic development looks like Markdown.

By Nick Hodges

Mar 18, 20264 mins

CareersDeveloperRoles

Articles

AI makes networking matter again

The cloud era taught developers to mostly ignore infrastructure. AI is making them pay attention again.

By Matt Asay

Mar 2, 2026 7 mins

Development ApproachesNetwork ArchitectRoles

Microsoft warns of job‑themed repo lures targeting developers with multi‑stage backdoors

Attackers used “technical assessment” projects with repeatable naming conventions to blend in cloning and build workflows, retrieving loader scripts from remote infrastructure, and minimizing on-disk traces.

By Shweta Sharma

Feb 25, 2026 3 mins

CareersDeveloperMalware

Claude Code is blowing me away

What Claude does is eye-opening. One thing he has taught me is that the future belongs to the APIs and CLIs.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 25, 2026 5 mins

DeveloperGenerative AIRoles

Snowflake extends Cortex Code CLI to dbt and Airflow to streamline data engineering workflows

By moving Cortex into dbt and Airflow, Snowflake is aiming to eliminate context switching and pull AI closer to production pipelines, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 24, 2026 3 mins

AnalyticsData EngineeringDeveloper

What drives your cloud security strategy?

As cloud breaches increase, organizations should prioritize skills and training over the latest tech to address the actual root problems.

By David Linthicum

Jan 6, 2026 5 mins

CareersCloud SecurityIT Skills and Training

How to adapt your skills for AI-driven development

For software developers today, staying competitive means embracing AI technologies. Here’s how some developers are staying ahead of the curve.

By Bob Violino

Feb 23, 2026 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIMachine Learning

AI agents and bad productivity metrics

Generating code without a rigorous validation framework is not engineering. It is simply mass-producing technical debt.

By Matt Asay

Feb 23, 2026 7 mins

Code SecurityDevopsSoftware Deployment

How AI redefines software engineering expertise

AI removes the difficulty of writing code. It does not remove the responsibility of designing systems.

By Sonu Kapoor

Feb 23, 2026 7 mins

DeveloperGenerative AIRoles

EFF thinks it's cracked the AI slop problem

In a policy change, it requires contributors to understand the code they commit. The question, though, is how to determine that.

By Evan Schuman

Feb 20, 2026 7 mins

DeveloperOpen SourceRoles

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Get the scoop on the most recent ranking from the Tiobe programming language index, learn a no-fuss way to distribute DIY tooling across Python projects, and take a peek at ComfyUI: interactive, node-based tools for generative AI workloads in Python.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 20, 2026 3 mins

DatabasesGenerative AIPython

The 200ms latency: A developer’s guide to real-time personalization

User engagement metrics do not care about the complexity of your AI model. They care about latency.

By Manoj Yerrasani

Feb 19, 2026 9 mins

Cloud ArchitectureData ArchitectureDevops

Let a million apps bloom

Something big is happening, all right. But there is reason for optimism in the AI turmoil.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins

DeveloperGenerative AIRoles

Google Cloud launches GEAR program to broaden AI agent development skills

The learning pathway, housed within the Google Developer Program, aims to equip developers with hands-on expertise in building and deploying AI agents using the Agent Development Kit.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloperIT Skills and Training