Abstract: Code smells violate best practices in software development that make code difficult to understand and maintain. Code smell detection tools help practitioners detect maintainability issues ...

We ventured into dangerous waters for some underwater metal detecting, but what we didn’t expect was to be surrounded by crocodiles and a massive python. This video takes you into the wild, where we ...

On January 5, employees at Cursor returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time.” During the break, employees playing with Anthropic’s latest model, Opus ...

As agentic coding spreads, the working life of a software engineer has become dazzlingly complex. A single engineer might oversee dozens of coding agents at once, launching and guiding different ...

Cursor announced updates to its AI coding agents as the startup works to fend off competition from rivals. The updated agents can test their own changes and record their work through videos, logs and ...

Abstract: Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little ...

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VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

All three editors successfully generated and extended a multi-page static website from identical natural-language prompts. Cursor emphasized production-oriented polish and executed large redesigns and ...

Strengthen your agency’s edge by using AI code detection to spot risky AI-generated sections early and protect quality, security, and client trust. Build a repeatable review process by scanning repos, ...

Code editor provider Cursor has acquired Graphite, a startup with a tool that helps developers check software updates for bugs before releasing them to production. The companies announced the ...