Articles about software development

Two pizzas and a prototype: How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions

Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services. They’ve been using the tools themselves to quietly change how they work — starting with one of Amazon’s most sacred processes. Read More

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The Trap of Accidental Design in Digital Products

Digital products rarely become fragmented because of one major mistake. More often, complexity and inconsistency build gradually through hundreds of… Read More

AWS targets AI slop with new spec check in Kiro coding tool, amid scrutiny of agent reliability

Amazon Web Services is adding a feature to its Kiro AI coding tool that uses mathematical proofs to check whether software requirements contradict each other or leave gaps before AI agents start writing code. Read More

Ai2 cooks up open-source coding agents with tech equivalent of ‘hot plate and frying pan’

The Seattle nonprofit built its new open-source coding agent with 32 GPUs and five researchers, a fraction of the resources used by big tech companies. Read More

AWS CEO Matt Garman thought Amazon needed a million developers — until AI changed his mind

AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon’s biggest constraint is no longer hiring engineers — it’s coming up with the right ideas. In a re:Invent conversation with the Acquired podcast, he detailed how AI is reshaping development, revealed Bedrock’s scale, and explained why Amazon is “particularly bad” at copying competitors. Read More

Amazon’s surprise indie hit: Kiro launches broadly in bid to reshape AI-powered software development

Amazon’s Kiro development tool is launching broadly with new features and a unique branding strategy, as the company pushes deeper into the booming market for AI-assisted software development. Read More

Orange Crabs in the Machine: How Rust is rewriting the rules of modern software

At RustConf 2025 in Seattle, Microsoft, Amazon, and the broader developer community marked key milestones for Rust — an open-source programming language that has quickly gone from cult favorite to critical infrastructure. Read More

Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees ‘upper limit’

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich cautioned that “vibe coding” and AI-driven software development tools aren’t capable of… Read More

Nadella and Zuckerberg: Microsoft and Meta see surge in AI-generated code at their own companies

Even Satya Nadella seemed taken aback by Mark Zuckerberg’s introduction of him Tuesday evening for their one-on-one chat at LlamaCon… Read More

New study on coding behavior raises questions about impact of AI on software development

Software development is one of the early use cases for generative AI. Thousands of companies big and small are already… Read More

Valve and Picnik vets Hatch new idea — a no-code web design platform for ‘tech curious creators’

The news: Longtime Seattle software developers and entrepreneurs Darrin Massena and Mike Harrington have officially launched Hatch, an online makerspace… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Online video publishing leader thePlatform continues hiring spree

thePlatform, a subsidiary of Comcast, is a leading provider of online video publishing and management, used by global video streaming services. The… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Imprintable product supplier SanMar seeks IT Development Manager

Founded in 1971, SanMar Corp. is a national supplier of apparel and accessories for marketing, promotional, and athletic products. The family-owned company… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Seattle Sounders seeking Senior App Developer to join the team

Technology is being embraced all over Seattle, including on the soccer pitch. The Seattle Sounders FC are currently seeking a… Read More

An Ode to Code: ‘The Windows Thread that Wouldn’t Go to Bed’

There is plenty of drama in the process of software development, yet little theater or poetry about it. Poems are… Read More

6 questions for … Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum

Software developer and industry consultant Ken Schwaber is one of the creators of Scrum software development techniques, and a widely… Read More

How Microsoft’s Developer Division changed its workspace, and transformed how it works

The employees in Microsoft’s Developer Division spend their days creating a virtual environment for software development — making Visual Studio… Read More

Kinect-controlled water fountains? Student contest focuses on fluid interfaces

Next stop, the Bellagio? Computer-controlled water fountains are giving an unusual twist to an annual student contest that explores new… Read More

Microsoft ‘Imagine Cup’ finals: Ballmer and students on CNN

Microsoft’s Imagine Cup student technology competition has grown into a massive event in less than a decade of existence, with… Read More