Is AI the 4GL we’ve been waiting for?

When I was a young engineer, there was a gruff old programmer named Larry who often imparted his wisdom to us young’uns. A man in his forties, he had that gritty, seen-it-all manner that bespoke years of hard-fought battles in the coding trenches. His was a heart of...

The rise of AI-ready private clouds

The conversation around enterprise AI infrastructure has shifted dramatically in the past 18 months. While public cloud providers continue to dominate headlines with their latest GPU offerings and managed AI services, a quiet revolution is taking place in enterprise...

Software developers aren’t buying it

When I was just starting out writing code, the market for developer tools was small. It mainly consisted of compilers, debuggers, and IDEs. The advent of visual development brought about the sale of component sets, but ultimately, the market wasn’t all that big and...

Visual Studio 2026 doubles down on AI-assisted coding

Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio 2026 IDE through the company’s new Insiders channel, which replaces the old Preview channel for early access to upcoming features. The new IDE offers deeper integration of the GitHub Copilot AI coding...