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What if you could automate the most tedious parts of coding while maintaining full control over your projects? André Mikalsen breaks down how Auto Claude, a free and open source AI coding assistant, ...

The well-funded and innovative French AI startup Mistral AI is introducing a new service for enterprise customers and independent software developers alike. Mistral's Agents application programming ...

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

If you want to run VS Code AI Mode to boost coding performance, this article will be handy for you. It explains how you can enable the agent mode in VS Code, set up an agent, and use the AI Mode to ...