According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims its Duo chatbot can “instantly generate a ...

Mistral AI SAS today debuted Mistral Code, a tool that uses four of its artificial intelligence models to help developers write code faster. Paris-based Mistral AI raised $640 million last year at a ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Let’s back up for a second: Are there advantages to using AI to write code? Certainly. We ...

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to nonexistent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs with malicious packages ...

As AI takes hold across businesses of every type and size, open-source solutions like those now offered by Meta, Google, xAI and others are catching up to proprietary AI models and providing a strong ...

The code generated by large language models (LLMs) has improved some over time — with more modern LLMs producing code that has a greater chance of compiling — but at the same time, it's stagnating in ...

Agentic AI is the place to be these days as a Microsoft-centric developer, and as advanced GenAI works its way into the brand-new Visual Studio 2026, several agentic tools are already available for ...

Developers using large language models (LLMs) to generate code perceive significant benefits, yet the reality is often less rosy. Programmers who adopted AI for code generation estimate, for example, ...

What if your coding tool could do more than just assist—what if it could truly transform the way you develop software? The rise of AI-powered code editors has sparked a quiet revolution in programming ...