“I found a new beginning by thinking about plants and animals,” Philippa Foot said of her attempts to reinvigorate virtue ethics. Now, there’s another thing to add to her list. Now, as we accustom ...

When it comes to writing software, getting feedback is a critical part of the process, ensuring that bugs in the newly ...

Despite widespread industry recommendations, a new ETH Zurich paper concludes that AGENTS.md files may often hinder AI coding agents. The researchers recommend omitting LLM-generated context files ...

AI coding agents promised to make software development easier. Instead they’ve kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.

Learn how a developer used AI agents to build a native FreeBSD WiFi driver for the MacBook BCM4350 chip. Explore the "vibe ...

But what Claude did was a real eye-opener. He downloaded the service’s command-line interface and used it to do all the work (except logging in—I had to do that). He couldn’t (yet, I suppose) use the ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

Apple's iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system's internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The ...

Spotify’s most senior engineers don’t type code anymore. In fact, they have not written a single line of code since December, co-CEO Gustav Söderström revealed during a recent earnings call. It’s not ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...