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Fraud Prevention in the Age of AI Agents

A major challenge for almost every online service is reliably identifying users, and knowing whether a given user or agent can be trusted. Historically, web services lean

GitLab and the Evolution of DevSecOps

AI coding agents can already reach well beyond the code in front of them. Through connections to tools like Slack, Jira, and Sentry, an agent can pull in issues, discussi

SED News: PHP’s Megabug, a Hidden Mic at OpenAI, and Dead AI Products

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silic

Demis Hassabis and the Race to Build AI with Sebastian Mallaby

Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in 2010, before machines could reliably tell a cat from a dog. He believed that artificial general intelligence was achievable, and that i

AI Regulation and What Every Tech Company Should Know

The rapid rise of AI has set off a flurry of legal and regulatory activity. There is no single AI law to follow. Instead, there are overlapping circles of regulation, whe

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

Over the past couple of years, companies raced to get their employees using AI, often encouraging them to lean on it as much as possible. However, as AI coding tools spre

Blitzy and Autonomous Software Development for Enterprise

Codebases in enterprise organizations often span hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of lines of code. In many cases, changes must follow established patterns precis

Physical AI at NVIDIA

In recent years, the main impact of AI has been on the digital world, and most notably software engineering. However, its longer-term effect on the physical world may pro

Software Verification in the Age of Coding Agents

Software testing is widely understood as essential to building reliable systems, and it’s one of the hardest things to get right. A fundamental issue is that tests are go

SED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silic

Steve Jobs in Exile

The popular story of Steve Jobs is that he co-founded Apple, was pushed out, wandered through a failed venture called NeXT, then returned to save the company and usher in

Security in the Age of Instant Exploits

In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment attackers could exploit it. Th

The State of Browser Testing

Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Firefox, and Safari the same way,

Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of dozens of

Chroma and Agentic Retrieval

Data retrieval is a fundamental challenge in AI systems, and the approaches for solving it are still evolving. Vector search was an early answer to the retrieval problem,

Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres

Many real-world processes produce data as a continuous stream rather than as isolated records. Sensor readings, financial markets, and application telemetry all generate

Scaling Agent Workloads at Vercel

Most AI agent setups today are built around a single session, where one user interacts with one agent at a time. However, that model breaks down when an agent has to serv

Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era

Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending that contract in a new direction.

A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems

A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have to grapple with problems such

SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silic