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mabl Adds Harness to AI Testing Automation Platform

Mabl today extended its test automation platform with a harness that, in addition to enforcing guardrails and testing standards for artificial intelligence (AI) agents, enables application development teams to better understand the impact of code changes before a pull request (PR) is made. Announced at a mabl Experience event, the extensions to the test automation […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 21, 2026
AI

Beyond SLSA and Sigstore: Securing the Developer Origin in the Age of Agentic Coding

SLSA, Sigstore and SBOMs have strengthened software supply chain security, but attackers are increasingly targeting developer workstations before code reaches the CI/CD pipeline. With autonomous AI coding agents installing dependencies, executing commands and accessing sensitive credentials, endpoint security is becoming a critical cloud-native concern. Securing the software supply chain now requires protection from the developer’s IDE all the way to Kubernetes production workloads.

Giri Radhakrishnan · Oct 20, 2026
AI

AI Agents Can Now Take Software Apart. DevOps Teams Need a Plan

AI-powered reverse engineering is making it easier to understand and rebuild software without source code. Tools such as REA and increasingly capable AI models create opportunities for legacy modernization while raising fresh concerns about intellectual property, application security and functional correctness.

Tom Smith · Oct 20, 2026
AI

Microsoft Foundry Puts AI Agents on a Schedule and Under Watch

Microsoft’s September Foundry updates focus on making AI agents production-ready with automated routines, lower token costs, trace-based insights and improved resilience. For DevOps teams, the changes bring agent operations closer to familiar CI/CD and observability practices.

Tom Smith · Oct 20, 2026
Blogs

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 19, 2026
Blogs

Dean Hall Open Sources Brutal to Give Game Studios a Way Out of Engine Lock-In

DayZ creator Dean Hall has unveiled Brutal, a free C# framework designed to give game developers greater control over their technology and reduce dependence on commercial engines. Already used in projects including RimWorld’s new engine, Brutal promises flexibility and performance while raising familiar questions about licensing, maintenance and open source sustainability.

Tom Smith · Oct 19, 2026
Video Interviews

What’s Blocking Fully Autonomous Vibe Coding?

Assaf Sauer joins Alan Shimel to examine why production-ready AI code depends on understanding application relationships, infrastructure configuration, security controls and validation.

Alan Shimel · Oct 16, 2026
AI

Blitzy Adds Chat-to-Prompt Interface to Agentic AI Engineering Platform

Blitzy this week added a chat interface to a platform that enables DevOps teams to employ artificial intelligence (AI) agents by expressing their intent in natural language. Dr. Neeraj Deshmukh, Field CTO for Blitzy, said the Chat to Prompt interface makes it possible for a software engineer to describe a desired outcome that is then […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 16, 2026
AI

ScienceLogic Extends Observability Reach and Control Deeper into AI Agents

ScienceLogic has added additional tools and capabilities to its observability platform that provide deeper visibility and control over artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are being used to automate IT operations. The latest 2.7 update to the Skylar AI platform provides visibility into agent routing and tool selection via a catalog that uses traces to surface […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 16, 2026
Blogs

Claude Platform Now Sends Agent Traces Straight to Your Observability Stack

Anthropic is making it easier to see what Claude-based agents do in production. The company has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform. Developers can now send traces from the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and the Claude SDKs to the observability tools they already use. The feature launched in public beta on October […]

Tom Smith · Oct 15, 2026
Blogs

Apple Brings Whole-Program C++ Hardening to Clang

Apple has added a new tool to the upstream LLVM project that could change how teams harden large C++ codebases. The clang-ssaf-driver, merged into LLVM Git this week, analyzes an entire project as it builds and then rewrites source code based on what it finds. The driver is part of Clang’s Scalable Static Analysis Framework […]

Tom Smith · Oct 15, 2026
Blogs

One Bill for Grok, Cursor, and X: What SpaceX’s Bundle Means for Developers

SpaceX wants to be the single line item for your AI coding tool, your chatbot, and your social media account. On October 12, SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI), the AI unit formerly known as xAI, introduced The X Subscription. It folds Grok, the Grok Bot agent, the Cursor AI code editor, and X Premium into one […]

Tom Smith · Oct 15, 2026
AI

BAND Desktop Application Streamlines Management of AI Coding Agents

BAND today made available a desktop application through which application developers can more easily manage and collaborate with multiple coding agents. Company CEO Arick Goomanovsky said the BAND for Developers application, in addition to providing more context and coordinating handoffs between disparate AI agent sessions, also makes it simpler for developers to intervene whenever an […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 15, 2026
Blogs

GitHub Narrows App Permissions to Pull Teams Off Classic PATs

GitHub is giving DevOps teams more ways to limit an automation job to only the access it needs. A batch of GitHub Apps updates released Oct. 13 adds narrower permissions, relaxes a long-standing install restriction for repository administrators, and makes it easier to move users to expiring tokens. GitHub says the goal is to help […]

Tom Smith · Oct 14, 2026
Blogs

npm Puts a 48-Hour Clock on Unused Trusted Publishing Configurations

GitHub has added an expiration date to unused npm trusted publishing configurations. Any configuration that doesn’t complete a successful publish within 48 hours of creation now expires and can no longer authorize a release. It’s a small change. But it closes a gap that matters to anyone who publishes packages from a CI/CD pipeline. How […]

Tom Smith · Oct 14, 2026
AI

Anthropic Builds Its Own Source Control After AI Agents Outgrow Git

Anthropic has moved its internal monorepo off Git and onto a version control system it built from scratch. The reason is simple. Its AI agents now write code faster than Git-based infrastructure can handle it. In a post on its engineering blog, the company said it averaged about 2,500 merged code changes a day in […]

Tom Smith · Oct 14, 2026
AI

AI Is Automating Code. The Job Is Engineering

AI is automating coding, but software engineering still requires human judgment. Explore what shifting developer demand means for DevOps, QA and software delivery.

Alan Shimel · Oct 13, 2026
AI

LocalStack Extends Emulation Reach to Microsoft Azure Services

LocalStack has made available a public beta of its platform that enables application developers to emulate Microsoft Azure cloud services on their local machines. Colin Neagle, head of marketing for LocalStack, said LocalStack now enables application developers to build software locally that can run across more than 40 Azure services. Following initial support for cloud […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 12, 2026
Blogs

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]

Mike Vizard · Oct 12, 2026