How AI is changing open source

Open source has become less of a “thing” in the last few years. Oh, sure, you’ll find the usual suspects waving their “open source is always better” flag, even as the AI community keeps releasing ambitious (and very closed) models and other tools (and as the very...

Migrating from Apache Airflow v2 to v3

During the 2025 holidays, I had some downtime and decided to migrate one of my pet projects from Apache Airflow 2.10.3 to 3.0.6. This article is based entirely on my hands-on experience with that migration and captures my initial takeaways of what worked well, what...

How to build an AI agent that actually works

Everyone is building “agents,” but there is a large disagreement on what that means. David Loker, VP of AI at CodeRabbit, which runs one of the most widely deployed agentic code review systems in production, has a practical definition that cuts through the hype: The...

Microsoft accelerates pace of VS Code development

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer,  the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but starting from March 9 the changes will come weekly, it announced on...