Software-development is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Rabobank plans a €2 billion investment to strengthen its IT/data foundation for AI, launching an Agentic Hub to scale AI across over 1,100 software teams.
Epoch AI’s MirrorCode benchmark shows AI can reimplement entire programs end-to-end under long-horizon, sandboxed conditions, with multi-day runs and thousands of dollars in cost, achieving partial to strong success on a 30-task, multi-language leaderboard.
Cognition acquired Poke to bring a conversational UX to its coding agent Devin, betting that interaction style is becoming a critical competitive moat.
Elastic to acquire DeductiveAI, a CRV-backed AI bug-detection startup, for up to $85 million.
Claude wrote ~3,000 lines to reimplement libraries instead of pip installing them, then trimmed to 1,259 lines after migration, revealing a strong bias toward reinventing rather than reusing existing tooling.
RPCS3 warns against AI-generated code PRs, highlighting that ~70% of the PS3 library is now playable and noting broader AI PR flooding in open-source projects like Godot.
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