Application Development Trends (ADT)

1 week ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

You might’ve missed it amid the spectacle of Gemini demos and AI ethics panels, but Google quietly rewired the front end of the web at its annual I/O conference—and it’s worth your attention. Not just because they streamlined carousels or snuck multimodal prompts into Chrome Canary. No, this is Google laying the groundwork for the next decade of web-native AI. This year’s updates—ten of them, tucked into a deceptively cheery dev blog post—aren’t just UX candy.

2 weeks ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

News CodeRabbit has released a new integration that brings its AI-based code review system directly into Visual Studio Code, along with support for the Cursor and Windsurf IDEs. The extension allows developers to access real-time, in-editor code reviews at no cost, offering a secondary review layer alongside existing Git-based workflows. The move is intended to embed AI support earlier in the development lifecycle. Previously, CodeRabbit operated primarily on GitHub pull requests.

3 weeks ago | adtmag.com | Chris Paoli

News Microsoft marked the inaugural World Passkey Day (formerly World Password Day) by reaffirming its push toward a passwordless future—signing the FIDO Alliance’s Passkey Pledge and joining other major tech players in accelerating adoption of modern, developer-friendly authentication standards. For engineers, it’s a signal that passkeys are moving from optional to inevitable—and it’s time to start building with them in mind.

3 weeks ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

News Application delivery platform Harness, in collaboration with recently acquired API security company Traceable, has unveiled Traceable Cloud WAAP, a next-generation Web Application and API Protection platform. The product, launched Tuesday, aims to provide full-stack, context-aware security for cloud-native environments and microservices architectures.

3 weeks ago | adtmag.com | John K. Waters

OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf—formerly known as Codeium—for about $3 billion. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, marks OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and places the maker of ChatGPT squarely in the heart of the code editor. For developers, this isn’t just news. It’s a direct shift in the tools and platforms that shape your daily workflow. Windsurf has been popular with devs for a reason. It’s fast, context-aware, modular, and built for serious, team-scale software development.