UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

Use code MARCH15 to get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.49 through March 29 (MSRP $499.99). Macs are fantastic machines for development, but if you build software that has to run ...

Visual Studio Pro is one of the most trusted names in coding because it’s an all-in-one platform for building software across multiple languages and use cases. And, at 90% off its MSRP, it’s now a ...

Visual Studio Professional 2026 is a 64-bit integrated development environment (IDE) built to dive into big, complex projects.

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 introduces "Adaptive Thinking" and a "Compaction API" to solve context rot in long-running agents. The model supports a 1M token context window with 76% multi-needle ...

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 ...

IBM announced it is offering the IBM Db2 Developer Extension for Visual Studio (VS) Code-now generally available. Developers live in VS Code, but Db2 development often means switching tools to set up ...

Given my early success with Clairvoyance, I quickly moved to using this AI pair programming solution to help me add new ...

Once I had Clairvoyance up and running, I asked it to perform a code review of WinUIpad and, over time, fix all the issues.

It's more than just a code editor.

AI tools like Claude are becoming embedded in engineers' day-to-day work, which means outages can send them back to an earlier era of coding manually.