Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry's Code With AI

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.

Anthropic's Claude Code creator predicts software engineering title will start to go away in 2026

Boris Cherny, the founder of Anthropic's Claude Code, said AI has largely solved coding, so software engineers will start to take on different tasks.
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Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs

Critical vulnerabilities in four widely used VS Code extensions could enable file theft and remote code execution across 125M ...

Spotify CEO says its top developers 'have not written a single line of code' in 2026

Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström said his top developers are supervising AI instead of writing code themselves, which is a path ...
InfoWorld

Flaws in four popular VS Code extensions left 128 million installs open to attack

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.