from my link log —
Compiler options hardening guide for C and C .
https://best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C .html
saved 2025-11-15

Apple will now require app developers to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers and companies (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/appl

Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI' | TechCrunch
Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

Cracking CodeWhisperer: Analyzing Developers' Interactions and Patterns During Programming Tasks
Jeena Javahar, Tanya Budhrani, Manaal Basha, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Ivan Beschastnikh, Gema Rodriguez-Perez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11516

Cracking CodeWhisperer: Analyzing Developers' Interactions and Patterns During Programming Tasks
The use of AI code-generation tools is becoming increasingly common, making it important to understand how software developers are adopting these tools. In this study, we investigate how developers engage with Amazon's CodeWhisperer, an LLM-based code-generation tool. We conducted two user studies with two groups of 10 participants each, interacting with CodeWhisperer - the first to understand which interactions were critical to capture and the second to collect low-level interaction data using…

The Handala hacker group has put a bounty for information on over a dozen Israelis it claims are developers of Patriot, Arrow, and David's Sling air defense systems.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880394

If you're in Austin and want to attend #LonghornPHP next week but can't swing the ticket price, we still have some donated in-person tickets available. Pay $20 now, then get that $20 refunded when you show up. https:/…

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

S.F. moves to accelerate stalled housing at Tenderloin food hall site
San Francisco officials have changed course and committed to seek developers for the La Cocina site within the next two years.

"Rachel Reeves, boasted to corporate executives that she has “unblocked” a large housing development in Sussex being held up by “some snails … a protected species or something … microscopic snails that you cannot even see”. .. The very rare little whirlpool ramshorn snail, by no means microscopic, is an indicator of fresh water not affected by sewage pollution"

"These were the times of Justine Ezarik opening a box containing the 300 pages of her first AT&T bill. Of Joe Hewitt releasing the iUI framework. Of Steve Ballmer laughing at the iPhone. Of James Duncan Davidson’s iconic photo of the iPhone inside a glass screen.
The iPhone SDK and the App Store did not come alone. They were accompanied by an infamous NDA that lasted until October 2008. It prevented devs from asking questions on a new website called “Stack Overflow”."

Erica Sadun
Developers new to the iOS platform are completely (and thankfully) unaware of its rocky start during its initial years. The first iPhone was announced on January 9th, 2007, and was released in the United States on June 29th that year. The iPhone SDK was announced by Steve Jobs in October 2007, and released in March 2008. But even before the official SDK was first announced, people were already "jailbreaking" the device, and thereby making applications for the iPhone. First-generation iPhone and…

Folks creating free and open software for the common good: here’s a checklist of everything else you should be doing so corporations can make the best use of your free labour.
I mean, sure, some good security tips here and worth reading anyway but do fuck off with holding free software developers to account for supply chain attacks. It’s your fucking supply chain, not ours, you fucking corporation.

A Survey of Vibe Coding with Large Language Models
Yuyao Ge, Lingrui Mei, Zenghao Duan, Tianhao Li, Yujia Zheng, Yiwei Wang, Lexin Wang, Jiayu Yao, Tianyu Liu, Yujun Cai, Baolong Bi, Fangda Guo, Jiafeng Guo, Shenghua Liu, Xueqi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12399

A Survey of Vibe Coding with Large Language Models
The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift from code generation assistance to autonomous coding agents, enabling a novel development methodology termed "Vibe Coding" where developers validate AI-generated implementations through outcome observation rather than line-by-line code comprehension. Despite its transformative potential, the effectiveness of this emergent paradigm remains under-explored, with empirical evidence revealing unexpected productivity losse…

Monorepo vs Multi-repo vs #Git submodule vs Git Subtree: A Complete Guide for Developers
https://levelup.gitcon…

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/dec/12/sko…

#ChatGPT Will Soon Have #Erotic Chats With Verified #Adults

So i've installed #CachyOS on my main PC and must say that it feels really great. After over a decade on #Ubuntu and/or #Debian based distros,

"Before we go into what is missing, let us take a moment to understand why this partial story is so popular. Many software engineers do not engage with the broad “software engineering literature” very much: through the act of reading this magazine you are placing yourself at the pinnacle of software engineering curiosity!"
https…

The Other Side Of The Card
If you ask many developers what a "user story" is, you will be told that it is a software requirement expressed using a prescribed formula: "As a category of person, I want to do a thing so that some goal is attained."

AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
Feiyang (Amber), Xu, Poonacha K. Medappa, Murat M. Tunc, Martijn Vroegindeweij, Jan C. Fransoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10165

AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
Generative AI solutions like GitHub Copilot have been shown to increase the productivity of software developers. Yet prior work remains unclear on the quality of code produced and the challenges of maintaining it in software projects. If quality declines as volume grows, experienced developers face increased workloads reviewing and reworking code from less-experienced contributors. We analyze developer activity in Open Source Software (OSS) projects following the introduction of GitHub Copilot.…

»A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one:
For most developers, the only time they touch colour values is when they copy them from a design file and paste them into their editor. We are developers and not designers, after all.«
— by @… on @…

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series, by Kevin Powell, is for you.

Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! #VisualStudio2026
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-st…

Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/deep-research-agent-gemini-api/

Build with Gemini Deep Research
We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever, now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API.

It's neat that #csharp 14 lets #dotnet developers override the operator. What use cases can you think of using this in?

“Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users!” — via FSFE
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251105-01.en.html

from my link log —
The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML.
https://techblog.topdesk.com/security/developers-need-know-reverse-tabnabbing/
saved 2020-10-28

What all Developers need to know about: Reverse Tabnabbing - TOPdesk Tech Blog
Reverse tabnabbing is a vulnerability in which the browser allows a linked page to control the page that opened it. This may lead to phishing attacks.

It appears that the latest version of Portainer has a significant bug that prevents access to the local server environment, meaning you cannot manage your containers.
Until the developers fix the problem, the temporary solution is to use version 2.20.2.
https://github.com/portainer/portainer

How Students Use Generative AI for Software Testing: An Observational Study
Baris Ardic, Quentin Le Dilavrec, Andy Zaidman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10551 https://

How Students Use Generative AI for Software Testing: An Observational Study
The integration of generative AI tools like ChatGPT into software engineering workflows opens up new opportunities to boost productivity in tasks such as unit test engineering. However, these AI-assisted workflows can also significantly alter the developer's role, raising concerns about control, output quality, and learning, particularly for novice developers. This study investigates how novice software developers with foundational knowledge in software testing interact with generative AI for e…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
Minjae Lee, Minsuk Kahng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1272…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
A long-standing challenge in machine learning has been the rigid separation between data work and model refinement, enforced by slow fine-tuning cycles. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) overcomes this historical barrier, allowing applications developers to instantly govern model behavior by editing prompt instructions. This shift enables a new paradigm: data-model co-evolution, where a living test set and a model's instructions evolve in tandem. We operationalize this paradigm in an int…

Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of “totally illegal” retaliation by Apple.

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

TALP-Pages: An easy-to-integrate continuous performance monitoring framework
Valentin Seitz, Jordy Trilaksono, Marta Garcia-Gasulla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12436 https://

TALP-Pages: An easy-to-integrate continuous performance monitoring framework
Ensuring good performance is a key aspect in the development of codes that target HPC machines. As these codes are under active development, the necessity to detect performance degradation early in the development process becomes apparent. In addition, having meaningful insight into application scaling behavior tightly coupled to the development workflow is helpful. In this paper, we introduce TALP-Pages, an easy-to-integrate framework that enables developers to get fast and in-repository feedb…

seemingly normal well adjusted software developers keep following me
actually now that I typed that I'm not sure if those actually exist

Good things developers never learned that DDT helps you code faster.

Talking about #neomutt today. Hopefully, it'll be easier to read than it was to write :)
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/cli_neomutt

I host my own Mastodon instance, and my (retired) blog.
https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosting-digital-independence/

Said no one ever... 🙂
I switched from Docker Compose to Kubernetes at home, and it's been awesome
https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-docker-compose-to-kubernetes-thoughts/

I switched from Docker Compose to Kubernetes at home, and it's been awesome
Kubernetes might not be your first choice for home use, but I did it anyway

Enshittification starts here
"Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI"
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-…

🪞 Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities
https://www.fullstory.com/blog/inside-a-global-campaign-hijacking-open-source-project-identities/

Inside a global campaign hijacking open-source project identities
Fullstory’s security team uncovered 165 fraudulent domains impersonating open-source projects, revealing widespread risks for developers, users, and maintainers.

🤔
"Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino"
#Arduino #Qualcomm

Three suspected developers of Meduza Stealer malware arrested in Russia https://therecord.media/meduza-stealer-malware-suspected-developers-arrested-russia

“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…

Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

Google führt ein, dass Devoloper von Android-Apps sich identifizieren müssen
Alle Hersteller von LLM GPT führen Vibe Coding ein.
Wie funktioniert das? Der GPTbot identifiziert sich bei Google und verantwortet die App mit allen Modifikationen des menschlichen "Developers"?
Der menschliche Developer identifiziert sich und haftet für alle Halluzinationen des vibe-bots, die er weder versteht noch kennt?

Google führt ein, dass Devoloper von Android-Apps sich identifizieren müssen
Alle Hersteller von LLM GPT führen Vibe Coding ein.
Wie funktioniert das? Der GPTbot identifiziert sich bei Google und verantwortet die App mit allen Modifikationen des menschlichen "Developers"?
Der menschliche Developer identifiziert sich und haftet für alle Halluzinationen des vibe-bots, die er weder versteht noch kennt?

A great replacement for Putsmail HTML email testing! https://htmltest.email/

Michael @… wins Innoexplorer Grant!
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/12/11/michael-wins-innoexplorer-grant/

I always find it interesting to compare my work with other developers' work. In this case I built a migration utility for Mastodon written in Python. After I posted to the "Support Post Migration" thread on Github someone else posted with their solution.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

from my link log —
MPTCP / multipath TCP for Linux.
https://www.mptcp.dev/
saved 2025-10-14 https://dotat.at/:/0CAFI.html…

We're gathering momentum for slipmux, a transport of #CoAP over serial ports. That specification allows #embedded developers on simple boards that just have a UART to use the same tools with it as for talking to devices across the Internet. This includes security: I guess I just sent the first encrypted…

Welcome to the world of the field, engineering.
For a long time, we've hired very few into sales, mktg, support or consulting that don't already gobs of experience elsewhere.
✅ How #Microsoft’s developers are using #AI - The Verge

How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
Microsoft is pushing its software developers to use AI internally. It’s part of an effort to get more AI agents doing the boring developer tasks.

What is #auth? It's more complicated than you probably thought, even though #software #developers sling the word around all the time.
🎅 Since it's the holiday season, give yourself an eas…

Security Lingo Explained: Auth
Learn and understand the key difference between Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ)

GCVE-BCP-02 Published - Version 1.3 (2025-12-09)

We’re pleased to announce the publication of GCVE-BCP-02 – Practical Guide to Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure, now available in its version 1.3.
This Best Current Practice document provides actionable guidance for organisations, researchers, and GCVE Numbering Authorities (GNAs) on managing and disclosing vulnerabilities effectively, both within the GCVE ecosystem and beyond

First talk of the day: @… introducing us to #HTMX for PHP developers

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html

Tonight, my sleigh is powered by Tux! 🐧 Streaming LOTRO as Linux Santa and spreading open-source cheer across Middle-earth. Hope you've all been good little kernel developers! Stream starts soon! #LOTRO #Linux

The HTML-First Approach: Why htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizing Web Development
📊 #html

The HTML-First Approach: Why htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizing Web Development
After years of Single Page Application dominance, more and more teams are rediscovering the power of the HTML-first approach. With htmx and other server-driven frameworks, we return to the simplicity of the original web without sacrificing modern interactivity. Let's explore why this paradigm is winning over developers and companies.

Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runw

Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers | TechCrunch
Runware lets developers integrate realtime image generation in their apps, with an affordable pricing model.

No surprised.
"The government published its planning and infrastructure bill in March. Before and after the bill’s publication the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have met dozens of developers in numerous meetings. The body representing professional ecologists, meanwhile, has not met one minister despite requests to do so."
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out.

CodeWatcher: IDE Telemetry Data Extraction Tool for Understanding Coding Interactions with LLMs
Manaal Basha, Aime\^e M. Ribeiro, Jeena Javahar, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Gema Rodr\'iguez-P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11536

CodeWatcher: IDE Telemetry Data Extraction Tool for Understanding Coding Interactions with LLMs
Understanding how developers interact with code generation tools (CGTs) requires detailed, real-time data on programming behavior which is often difficult to collect without disrupting workflow. We present \textit{CodeWatcher}, a lightweight, unobtrusive client-server system designed to capture fine-grained interaction events from within the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. \textit{CodeWatcher} logs semantically meaningful events such as insertions made by CGTs, deletions, copy-paste action…

Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2…

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image now ready for production with new aspect ratios- Google Developers Blog
Our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model which has captured the imagination of the wo...

"We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe
Alexandra Klymenko, Stephen Meisenbacher, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00909

"We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe
The proliferation of AI has sparked privacy concerns related to training data, model interfaces, downstream applications, and more. We interviewed 25 AI developers based in Europe to understand which privacy threats they believe pose the greatest risk to users, developers, and businesses and what protective strategies, if any, would help to mitigate them. We find that there is little consensus among AI developers on the relative ranking of privacy risks. These differences stem from salient reas…

Demystifying #AutomaticInstrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works
https://www.causely.ai/blog/demystifying-automatic-instrumentation

Is that an open source alternative to Framer/WebFlow? #Frappe #webdevelopment

Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening
Gerg\H{o} Balogh, D\'avid K\'osz\'o, Homayoun Safarpour Motealegh Mahalegi, L\'aszl\'o T\'oth, Bence Szak\'acs, \'Aron B\'ucs\'u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12294

Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening
Understanding how software developers think, make decisions, and behave remains a key challenge in software engineering (SE). Verbalization techniques (methods that capture spoken or written thought processes) offer a lightweight and accessible way to study these cognitive aspects. This paper presents a scoping review of research at the intersection of SE and psychology (PSY), focusing on the use of verbal data. To make large-scale interdisciplinary reviews feasible, we employed a large languag…

Nvidia says it will begin selling the DGX Spark mini PC for AI developers on October 15 on Nvidia.com and select third-party retailers for $3,999 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-to-start-selling-3999-dgx-spark-mini-pc-this-week…

advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or "self-contained" experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/apple-halves-commissions-for-m…

Apple halves commissions for mini app makers | TechCrunch
Apple introduces a new program for app developers offering a reduced 15% commission on qualifying mini app transactions.

eye2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Eye Movement for Program Comprehension Analysis
Haruhiko Yoshioka, Kazumasa Shimari, Hidetake Uwano, Kenichi Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11722 …

eye2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Eye Movement for Program Comprehension Analysis
This paper presents eye2vec, an infrastructure for analyzing software developers' eye movements while reading source code. In common eye-tracking studies in program comprehension, researchers must preselect analysis targets such as control flow or syntactic elements, and then develop analysis methods to extract appropriate metrics from the fixation for source code. Here, researchers can define various levels of AOIs like words, lines, or code blocks, and the difference leads to different result…

Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300 employees, and its in-house models "generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/cursor-ai-startup-funding-round-valuati…

AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation
Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a "no-reasoning" mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-for-developers

(R)evolution of Programming: Vibe Coding as a Post-Coding Paradigm
Kevin Krings, Nino S. Bohn, Thomas Ludwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12364 https://arxiv…

(R)evolution of Programming: Vibe Coding as a Post-Coding Paradigm
Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), particularly large language models, have introduced new possibilities for software development practices. In our paper we investigate the emerging Vibe Coding (VC) paradigm that emphasizes intuitive, affect-driven, and improvisational interactions between developers and AI systems. Building upon the discourse of End-User Development (EUD), we explore how VC diverges from conventional programming approaches such as those supporte…

Please don't upload my code on GitHub
This is a call to free/libre and open source software developers to not upload the work of others to GitHub.
🚫 #NoGitHub

This week, I received an interesting task: dusting off a legacy #Java application. The application analyzes specific #XML files in proprietary format. I know XML doesn’t sound sexy to junior developers, but it has an amazing benefit. One can validate a file against a grammar. Such grammar is called an

How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/how-developers-are-u…

How developers are using Apple's local AI models with iOS 26 | TechCrunch
As iOS 26 is rolling out to all users, developers have been updating their apps to include features powered by Apple's local AI models.

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-launche…

OpenAI launches AgentKit to help developers build and ship AI agents  | TechCrunch
“AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production, it is everything you need to build, deploy and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Sam Altman said Monday at OpenAI's Dev Day.  

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?
Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.
🧑‍💻 https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance? | DebugBear
Find out how web performance changed in 2025, and what changes are coming up in the future.

Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/goog

Google's Jules enters developers' toolchains as AI coding agent competition heats up | TechCrunch
Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.

AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Rob DeLine, Brian Houck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00762

AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Generative AI is reshaping software work, yet we lack clear guidance on where developers most need and want support, and how to design it responsibly. We report a large-scale, mixed-methods study of N=860 developers that examines where, why, and how they seek or limit AI help, providing the first task-aware, empirically validated mapping from developers' perceptions of their tasks to AI adoption patterns and responsible AI priorities. Using cognitive appraisal theory, we show that task evaluati…

Prompting in Practice: Investigating Software Developers' Use of Generative AI Tools
Daniel Otten, Trevor Stalnaker, Nathan Wintersgill, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06000

Prompting in Practice: Investigating Software Developers' Use of Generative AI Tools
The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools has fundamentally transformed software development. Although prompt engineering has emerged as a critical skill, existing research focuses primarily on individual techniques rather than software developers' broader workflows. This study presents a systematic investigation of how software engineers integrate GenAI tools into their professional practice through a large-scale survey examining prompting strategies, conversation pat…

Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/26/developers-can-make-android-apps-with…

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift
The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official...

Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories (Rohan Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.

OFP-Repair: Repairing Floating-point Errors via Original-Precision Arithmetic
Youshuai Tan, Zishuo Ding, Jinfu Chen, Weiyi Shang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09938 https://…

OFP-Repair: Repairing Floating-point Errors via Original-Precision Arithmetic
Errors in floating-point programs can lead to severe consequences, particularly in critical domains such as military, aerospace, and financial systems, making their repair a crucial research problem. In practice, some errors can be fixed using original-precision arithmetic, while others require high-precision computation. Developers often avoid addressing the latter due to excessive computational resources required. However, they sometimes struggle to distinguish between these two types of erro…

[Thread] GPT-5.2 is now available in the API, priced at $1.75/1M input and $14/1M output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro is priced at $21/1M input and $168/1M output tokens (@openaidevs)
https://x.com/openaidevs/status/1999184802755354954

OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) on X
GPT-5.2 is now available in the API—our most advanced frontier model for long-running agents. https://t.co/J5i4czpKsL

Developers' Perspectives on Software Licensing: Current Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Nathan Wintersgill, Trevor Stalnaker, Daniel Otten, Laura A. Heymann, Oscar Chaparro, Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. German, Denys Poshyvanyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01096

Developers' Perspectives on Software Licensing: Current Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Most modern software products incorporate open-source components, requiring development teams to maintain compliance with each component's licenses. Noncompliance can lead to significant financial, legal, and reputational repercussions. While some organizations may seek advice from legal practitioners to assist with licensing tasks, developers still play a key role in such a process. To this end, it is essential to understand how developers approach license compliance tasks, the challenges they…

Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers "have built with OpenAI", and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-…

Sam Altman says ChatGPT has hit 800M weekly active users  | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday at Dev Day that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments.  

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Modeling Developer Burnout with GenAI Adoption
Zixuan Feng, Sadia Afroz, Anita Sarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07435

Modeling Developer Burnout with GenAI Adoption
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping software development workflows. While prior studies emphasize productivity gains, the adoption of GenAI also introduces new pressures that may harm developers' well-being. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the adoption of GenAI and developers' burnout. We utilized the Job Demands--Resources (JD--R) model as the analytic lens in our empirical study. We employed a concurrent embedded mixed-methods research design, integrating quantit…

Repository-Aware File Path Retrieval via Fine-Tuned LLMs
Vasudha Yanuganti, Ishaan Puri, Swapnil Chhatre, Mantinder Singh, Ashok Jallepalli, Hritvik Shrivastava, Pradeep Kumar Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08850

Repository-Aware File Path Retrieval via Fine-Tuned LLMs
Modern codebases make it hard for developers and AI coding assistants to find the right source files when answering questions like "How does this feature work?" or "Where was the bug introduced?" Traditional code search (keyword or IR based) often misses semantic context and cross file links, while large language models (LLMs) understand natural language but lack repository specific detail. We present a method for file path retrieval that fine tunes a strong LLM (Qwen3-8B) with QLoRA and Unslot…

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

PyMigTool: a tool for end-to-end Python library migration
Mohayeminul Islam, Ajay Kumar Jha, May Mahmoud, Sarah Nadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08810 https://

PyMigTool: a tool for end-to-end Python library migration
Library migration is the process of replacing a library with a similar one in a software project. Manual library migration is time consuming and error prone, as it requires developers to understand the Application Programming Interfaces (API) of both libraries, map equivalent APIs, and perform the necessary code transformations. Due to the difficulty of the library migration process, most of the existing automated techniques and tooling stop at the API mapping stage or support a limited set of …

Fal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

What Types of Code Review Comments Do Developers Most Frequently Resolve?
Saul Goldman, Hong Yi Lin, Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Kla Tantithamthavorn, Zhe Wang, Ray Zhang, Ali Behnaz, Fan Jiang, Michael Siers, Ryan Jiang, Mike Buller, Minwoo Jeong, Ming Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05450

What Types of Code Review Comments Do Developers Most Frequently Resolve?
Large language model (LLM)-powered code review automation tools have been introduced to generate code review comments. However, not all generated comments will drive code changes. Understanding what types of generated review comments are likely to trigger code changes is crucial for identifying those that are actionable. In this paper, we set out to investigate (1) the types of review comments written by humans and LLMs, and (2) the types of generated comments that are most frequently resolved …

Saving SWE-Bench: A Benchmark Mutation Approach for Realistic Agent Evaluation
Spandan Garg, Ben Steenhoek, Yufan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08996 https://

Saving SWE-Bench: A Benchmark Mutation Approach for Realistic Agent Evaluation
Current benchmarks for evaluating software engineering agents, such as SWE-Bench Verified, are predominantly derived from GitHub issues and fail to accurately reflect how developers interact with chat-based coding assistants in integrated development environments (IDEs). We posit that this mismatch leads to a systematic overestimation of agent's capabilities in real-world scenarios, especially bug fixing. We introduce a novel benchmarking framework that transforms existing formal benchmarks int…

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices. Existing methods mostly offer high-level guidelines, which are time-consuming to implement and rely on team adaptability. Moreover, they focus on design or implementation, while sustainability assessment should start at the requirements engineering phase. In this p…

Data from 300K pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-catching-anthropi…

OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding
OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working.New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude ...

AI browsers, still far from making legacy browsers obsolete, are forcing web developers to rethink whether they are designing websites for humans or for robots (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Identifying Video Game Debugging Bottlenecks: An Industry Perspective
Carlos Pinto Gomez, Fabio Petrillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08834 https://arxiv.org…

Identifying Video Game Debugging Bottlenecks: An Industry Perspective
Conventional debugging techniques used in traditional software are similarly used when debugging video games. However, the reality of video games require its own set of unique debugging techniques such as On-Screen Console, Debug Draws, Debug Camera, Cheats and In-Game Menus, and Data Scrubbing. In this article, we provide insights from a video game studio on how 20 seasoned industry game developers debug during the production of a game. Our experiments rely on the recordings of debugging sessi…

Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI companies, call for international action to create "red lines" for AI development by the end of 2026 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/nobel-laureate…

Nobel laureates and AI developers call for ‘red lines’ on AI
Experts are calling for international agreements as the United Nations meets, but they face an uphill battle turning words into action

OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/openais-windows-play/

OpenAI’s Windows Play
OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.

The Linux Foundation will launch the React Foundation, a new home for Meta's React and React Native; founding members include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, others (Engineering at Meta)
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/

Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
Meta open-sourced React over a decade ago to help developers build better user experiences. Since then, React has grown into one of the world’s most popular open source projects, powering over 50 m…

Cloudflare combines a new Email Sending feature with Routing into a unified Email Service to let developers send emails from Cloudflare Workers, in private beta (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/

Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.

Docs: Oracle generated ~$900M from its Nvidia cloud server rental business, with a $125M gross profit, or a 14% margin, vs. its ~70% overall gross profit margin (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/internal-oracl…

Internal Oracle Data Show Financial Challenge of Renting Out Nvidia Chips
Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out specialized cloud servers to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers over the next ...

A live blog of OpenAI DevDay 2025, where the company is expected to announce a visual agent builder and other developer updates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/open-ai-devday-live-updates-altman-jony-ive.html

OpenAI DevDay live: Sam Altman set to give opening keynote
Fresh off an AI chip deal with AMD, OpenAI makes its case to developers about the latest in research, product and engineering.