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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…

  • The Register: AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/ Source: The Register Title: AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds Feedly Summary: Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the…

  • CSA: Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/understanding-security-risks-in-ai-generated-code Source: CSA Title: Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolving role of AI coding assistants and their impact on software security. It highlights the significant risks posed by AI-generated code, including the repetition of insecure patterns, optimization shortcuts, omission of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Feedly Summary: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement promises…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My First Open Source AI Generated Library

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/my-first-open-source-ai-generated-library/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Feedly Summary: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines…

  • Slashdot: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/149238/how-do-olympiad-medalists-judge-llms-in-competitive-programming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a newly established benchmark demonstrating that large language models (LLMs) are not yet capable of outperforming elite human coders, particularly in problem-solving contexts. The findings indicate limitations in the…

  • Slashdot: AI Startups Revolutionize Coding Industry, Leading To Sky-High Valuations

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/0820246/ai-startups-revolutionize-coding-industry-leading-to-sky-high-valuations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Startups Revolutionize Coding Industry, Leading To Sky-High Valuations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rapid growth and investment in code generation startups following the launch of ChatGPT, highlighting their innovative approach to software development through natural language. It notes a significant shift…