Visual Studio Magazine

Navigating VS Code AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry for Agent Development

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

OpenAI's big investment from AWS comes with something else: new 'stateful' architecture for enterprise agents

This environment allows models to maintain persistent context, memory, and identity. Rather than a series of disconnected calls, the stateful environment enables AI coworkers to handle ongoing ...
IEEE

Fuzzy-Assisted Contrastive Decoding Improving Code Generation of Large Language Models

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) play a crucial role in intelligent code generation tasks. Most existing work focuses on pretraining or fine-tuning specialized code LLMs, e.g., CodeLlama.
Business Wire

Snowflake Unveils Cortex Code, An AI Coding Agent That Drastically Increases Productivity by Understanding Your Enterprise Data Context

Cortex Code, Snowflake’s AI coding agent, helps customers like Braze, Decile, dentsu, FYUL, LendingTree, Shelter Mutual Insurance, TextNow, United Rentals, and WHOOP perform complex data engineering, ...
IEEE

Prompt Alchemy: Automatic Prompt Refinement for Enhancing Code Generation

Abstract: Code generation has gained increasing attention as a task to automate software development by transforming high-level descriptions into executable code. While large language models (LLMs) ...
Business Wire

CodeRabbit’s “State of AI vs Human Code Generation” Report Finds That AI-Written Code Produces ~ 1.7x More Issues Than Human Code

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CodeRabbit, the leading AI-powered code review platform, today released the “State of AI vs Human Code Generation”, a comprehensive new report analyzing the quality of ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model

OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT Images that promises better instruction-following, more precise editing, and up to 4x faster image generation speeds. The new model, dubbed GPT Image 1.5 ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Hacker

Rule Engine + LLM Hybrid Architectures for Safer Code Generation

I am a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where I build AI-driven enterprise solutions that integrate LLM. I am a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where I build AI-driven ...
The New York Times

Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations. Gen X How one era changed everything about the culture — and why we’re so nostalgic for its creations.
Microsoft

BlueCodeAgent: A blue teaming agent enabled by automated red teaming for CodeGen AI

Large language models (LLMs) are now widely used for automated code generation across software engineering tasks. However, this powerful capability in code generation also introduces security concerns ...