Tagged: Coding

• Code

  GitHub Copilot gets its own desktop app as Microsoft ships custom model underneath

  Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash is purpose-built for code completion, while a new standalone Copilot app tries to be your "agent-native" workspace.
  By The AI Beat · June 3, 2026
• Code

  Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI support bot nicely

  Meta wired its customer support AI directly into account management systems, and attackers figured out they could just ask it to change email addresses.
  By The AI Beat · June 2, 2026
• Code

  The AI Coding Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About

  AI coding assistants were supposed to make us faster, but some developers are finding they just make more projects they'll never finish.
  By The AI Beat · June 1, 2026
• Code

  Anthropic documents how it sandboxes Claude (finally)

  The company published detailed specs on process isolation, VMs, and egress controls across its agent products.
  By The AI Beat · May 31, 2026
• Code

  Three Ways to Compile Your Weekend

  A TypeScript-to-binary compiler, Zig's build system overhaul, and why SQLite might be the only infrastructure you need.
  By The AI Beat · May 30, 2026
• Code

  The Hidden Settings in Your AI Coding Tool (and Why They're Hidden)

  Someone read Claude Code's source to find undocumented config options, revealing a tension between power users and everyone else.
  By The AI Beat · May 29, 2026
• Code

  Code Desk: Thursday, May 28, 2026

  Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
  By The AI Beat · May 28, 2026
• Code

  Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files Through Email Images

  The AI coding agent sends unapproved emails to users' own inboxes, then leaks data through externally-hosted images in those messages.
  By The AI Beat · May 27, 2026
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  Code Desk: Tuesday, May 26, 2026

  Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
  By The AI Beat · May 26, 2026
• Code

  Your AI Coding Assistant Is Getting Sloppier as It Goes

  New research shows LLM agents progressively abandon constraints during backend code generation, a phenomenon researchers call "constraint decay."
  By The AI Beat · May 25, 2026
• Code

  Code Desk: Sunday, May 24, 2026

  Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
  By The AI Beat · May 24, 2026
• Code

  Microsoft Cancels Claude Code Licenses as Anthropic Ships Glasswing Update

  Microsoft is pulling the plug on Claude Code for enterprise customers while Anthropic pushes forward with its own IDE ambitions.
  By The AI Beat · May 23, 2026
• Code

  Simon Willison Ships Datasette Agent, Finally Merging His Two Biggest Projects

  After three years of building LLM tooling, Willison's AI assistant can now query, chart, and reason about data in Datasette.
  By The AI Beat · May 22, 2026
• Code

  Code Desk: Thursday, May 21, 2026

  Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
  By The AI Beat · May 21, 2026
• Code

  Google goes all-in on AI agents at I/O, while Demis Hassabis says "we're just getting started"

  Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is now powering search, Android Studio, and billions of user interactions as the company bets its product line on agentic AI.
  By The AI Beat · May 20, 2026
• Code

  Code Desk: Tuesday, May 19, 2026

  Today's dispatch from the Code Desk.
  By The AI Beat · May 19, 2026
• Code

  The NHS Closed Its GitHub Repos. Now Everyone Is Telling Them to Reopen.

  After the NHS locked down its open source code in response to security reports, the UK's Government Digital Service says that was exactly the wrong move.
  By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
• Code

  Julia Evans is learning to love CSS again, and ditching Tailwind to do it

  After years with utility-first frameworks, one developer is rediscovering what CSS can actually do.
  By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
• Code

  Frontier AI Models Are Breaking Capture the Flag Competitions

  When AI can solve security challenges meant to test human hackers, the traditional CTF format stops working.
  By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
• Code

  The Programming Language Lock-In Is Breaking

  AI coding agents are making it practical to rewrite entire codebases in weeks, not years, and that changes everything about technical debt.
  By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
• Code

  OpenAI Finally Solves the Windows Problem for Codex (And Simon Willison Already Built Something With It)

  Getting a coding agent to run safely on Windows required rethinking sandboxing from scratch, and the real-world results are starting to show up in places like the new Datasette blog.
  By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
• Code

  The AI Detector Problem Is Already Broken, and a Fake Monet Proves It

  A viral experiment where someone posted a genuine Monet painting and labeled it AI-generated exposes how thoroughly our intuitions, and our tools, have failed at telling real from synthetic.
  By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
• Code

  The AI Coding Speed Tax

  James Shore's maintenance math makes a brutal argument that most developers are ignoring, and this week's news from GitLab and Shopify shows companies are starting to feel it.
  By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026
• Coding

  AI Coding Assistants in 2026: A Comprehensive Comparison

  GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf -- we break down features, pricing, benchmarks, and which tool fits your workflow.
  By The AI Beat · May 10, 2026
• Coding

  How AI Is Changing Software Engineering in 2026

  AI hasn't replaced developers -- but it has fundamentally changed how software gets built. Real data on productivity gains, tool adoption, and the junior dev question.
  By The AI Beat · May 6, 2026
• Coding

  AI-Generated Code: How to Review It and Avoid Common Pitfalls

  AI can write code fast, but it can also introduce subtle bugs. Here's a practical guide to reviewing AI-generated code effectively.
  By The AI Beat · May 4, 2026
• Ai Agents

  Building Your First AI Agent: A Practical Guide

  A step-by-step introduction to building AI agents -- from simple tool-using chatbots to autonomous multi-step systems.
  By The AI Beat · May 2, 2026