How to inline methods using MethodImplAttribute in C#
The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is a component of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET that converts Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code into the native code that is executed by the computer. The JIT compiler compiles the CIL code at run time...
NLWeb: Tapping MCP for natural language web search
Technologies like Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping both how we build AI-powered applications and what we can do with them. By providing a standard way of describing and accessing information stored in our applications, MCP makes it easier to...
Google releases Gemma 3n models for on-device AI
Google has released its Gemma 3n AI model, positioned as an advancement for on-device AI and bringing multimodal capabilities and higher performance to edge devices. Previewed in May, Gemma 3n is multimodal by design, with native support for image, au...
Get started with Google Agent Development Kit
A common use case in generative AI is developing an agent, which is a system users interact with in plain language to accomplish a given task. Creating AI agents can require a lot of heavy lifting, even when you’re leveraging an existing commercial ...
The ultimate software engineering abstraction
Really big changes don’t happen in the programming world very often. I’ve been lucky to be around long enough to see a couple of them. And we are all lucky enough to be seeing one today. I remember well the heady days in the mid-1990s when rapid ...
Clarifai AI Runners connect local models to cloud
AI platform company Clarifai has launched AI Runners, an offering designed to give developers and MLops engineers flexible options for deploying and managing AI models. Unveiled July 8, AI Runners let users connect models running on local machines or...
ECMAScript 2025 JavaScript standard approved
ECMAScript 2025, the latest version of the ECMA International standard for JavaScript, has been officially approved. The specification standardizes new JavaScript capabilities including JSON modules, import attributes, new Set methods, sync iterator h...
Metadata: Your ticket to the AI party
Agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping how software interacts with the world. New frameworks for agent-to-agent collaboration and multi-agent control planes promise a future where software acts with more autonomy and shared context than ever before. Ye...
Nvidia doubles down on GPUs as a service
Nvidia’s recent initiative to dive deeper into the GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) model marks a significant and strategic shift that reflects an evolving landscape within the cloud computing market. As enterprises increase their reliance on artificial in...
What you absolutely cannot vibe code right now
LinkedIn has become the new Twitter now that Twitter is… well, X. LinkedIn is a place of shockingly bold claims. One person claimed to be so confident in agentic development that they are going to generate their own operating system on the level of ...
How Deutsche Telekom designed AI agents for scale
Across 10 countries in Europe, Deutsche Telekom serves millions of users, each with their own questions, needs, and contexts. Responding quickly and accurately isn’t just good service; it builds trust, drives efficiency, and impacts the bottom line....
Deno 2.4 restores JavaScript bundling subcommand
Deno 2.4, the latest version of Deno Land’s JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, has been released with the restoration of the deno bundle subcommand for creating single-file JavaScript bundles. Announced July 2, Deno 2.4 also stabilizes Deno’s buil...
Advanced unit testing with JUnit 5, Mockito, and Hamcrest
In this second half of a two-part introduction to JUnit 5, we’ll move beyond the basics and learn how to test more complicated scenarios. In the previous article, you learned how to write tests using the @Test and @ParameterizedTest annotations, val...
Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI
Brendan Falk didn’t set out to become a cautionary tale. Three months after leaving AWS to build what he called an “AI-native Palantir,” he’s pivoting away from enterprise AI projects altogether. In a widely shared X thread, Falk offers some o...
Developing JavaScript apps with AI agents
There is a phenomenon in low-code and 4GL systems called the inner platform effect. Essentially, you take a tool and build an abstraction on top designed to make it simpler and end up creating a less powerful version of the same underlying system. Art...
