OpenAI has agreed to acquire Astral, a startup behind widely used Python development tools, in a deal designed to sharpen its Codex coding assistant as competition with Anthropic intensifies. The ...

Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

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Vibe coding is programming by gut feel. You have an idea for a tool, a website, or a repetitive task you want to automate… but instead of enrolling in a coding boot camp or slogging through YouTube ...

A year ago, I had no clue how to write an iPhone app. Now I’ve shipped a fully-fledged strength training app, built with AI coding tools, or “vibe coding” as it’s become known. A lot of people get ...

Artificial intelligence is entering the era of self-improvement. On Thursday afternoon, OpenAI released a new cutting-edge coding model that the company said assisted in its own creation.

A screenshot of Xcode 26.3 showing the IDE's new Intelligence menu for picking coding agent. (Apple) Apple has just released Xcode 26.3, and it's a big step forward in terms of the company's support ...

OpenAI just lobbed a grenade at vibe-coding startups like Cursor and Windsurf. The company behind ChatGPT has announced the Codex MacOS app, its take on an integrated development environment (IDE) ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I am not, by any definition, a coder, but when I started seeing people’s vibe-coded smart home projects all over ...