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Factory ‘Droids’ AI agents tackle entire development lifecycle

1 week ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Factory’s new ‘Droids’ aren’t typical AI coding assistants, they’re billed as full-blown software development agents. Instead of just focusing on code completion or simple generation tasks, Factory claims to have built AI agents that can handle the often messy reality of the entire development lifecycle. The most eye-catching claim is that these AI agents can build entire production-ready features from just a ticket or specification.
Qt bridges the language barrier gap

1 week ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Earlier this month, Qt pulled back the curtain on its new “Bridges” technology at Qt World Summit 2025. As its name suggests, it aims to build bridges between Qt’s UI capabilities and a host of popular programming languages, without forcing developers to abandon their existing codebases. “Our ethos with Qt and cross-platform development has always been ‘build it once, use it everywhere,’” said Juhapekka Niemi, SVP of Product Management at Qt Group.
Mistral Agents API: Transforming complex AI workflows

1 week ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Paris-based Mistral has just rolled out their Agents API, through which it aims to make AI “more capable, useful, and an active problem-solver.”Today’s AI can talk a good game, but often falls flat when you need it to take real action. This new API gives AI the ability to do things like search the web or generate images, remember your previous conversations, and even coordinate multiple tasks.
60 malicious npm packages caught mapping developer networks

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

The npm registry is once again in the spotlight, this time battling a malware campaign using malicious packages to map developer networks. Expert threat intelligence analysts over at Socket have flagged a coordinated attack involving at least three publisher accounts. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill malicious efforts; these actors have managed to distribute 60 different packages, all embedding the exact same host-fingerprinting code. This isn’t about immediate chaos.
Java at 30: Still brewing success or evaporating?

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Java, which first blinked into existence in 1995, is 30 years old this week and continues to be a stalwart in modern programming. Brian Fox, Co-founder and CTO of Sonatype, puts it perfectly.
JetBrains reveals Kotlin 2.2, Amper, AI tools at KotlinConf 2025

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

At KotlinConf 2025, JetBrains showcased Kotlin advancements including language enhancements, the maturation of the K2 compiler, tooling like Amper, strides in KMP, and a push into AI. Eyes are on Kotlin 2.2, which is set to bring some rather useful features to the table. Developers can start getting ready for guard conditions in when-with-subject, multi-dollar string interpolation for more elegant templating, the ability to use non-local break and continue, and context parameters.
I/O 2025: Google arms developers with fresh AI models and tools

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

Google unveiled a flood of AI announcements during I/O 2025 designed to arm developers with next-generation models and tools. Mat Velloso, VP of Product for the AI Developer Platform at Google DeepMind, said: “We believe developers are the architects of the future.
GitHub Copilot automates DevOps loops with agent capabilities

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

During the Microsoft Build conference, GitHub announced they’re giving Copilot agent capabilities to automate DevOps loops. When needed, Copilot will be able to essentially take the wheel – that’s the gist of their new asynchronous coding agent, now embedded directly within GitHub and chattable from VS Code. It’s all about creating what they’re calling a “powerful Agentic DevOps loop” for developers. Alongside this new agent, GitHub announced they’re open-sourcing Copilot Chat in VS Code.
Rust developers offered $20k for rav1d to reach C performance

2 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

The folks behind Rust-based AV1 video decoder rav1d are looking for developers to get it running as fast as its C-based cousin, dav1d. It all kicked off back in March 2023. The plan? Build a high-performance AV1 decoder, but with all the memory safety goodness Rust brings. They teamed up with Immunant for the heavy lifting on the engineering side. Fast forward to September 2024, and rav1d was pretty much there – “basically complete,” as they put it.
DappRadar: Blockchain gaming is ‘growing up’

3 weeks ago | developer-tech.com | Ryan Daws

While research from DappRadar shows a dip in blockchain gaming metrics, the broader view is of an industry “growing up”. Let’s get the slightly gloomy numbers out of the way first. Daily Unique Active Wallets (think of these as daily players jumping in) dropped to 4.8 million in April, a 10% dip over the previous month. That’s the lowest we’ve seen this year. Cash injections weren’t exactly booming either, with a modest $21 million raised.