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AI’s impact on software engineering continues, and more and more of that AI is packaged as agents as results from our newest pulse survey show agentic usage has almost doubled (59%) since we last asked about it in our annual Developer Survey
Here’s a problem I kept running into: I need a company’s brand assets — their logo, their colors, maybe a hero image — and there’s no API for it. You’re building a white-label dashboard. Or a proposal generator. Or an integration that sends branded emails on behalf of customers. Every time, you end up on their website, right-clicking “Inspect Element,” eyedropping hex codes, and downloading a pixelated PNG from their footer. It’s tedious, it breaks when they redesign, and it doesn’t scale.
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee should do: finding faster ways to work. Across most organizations today, employees are running three to five AI tools on any given day. Most were never reviewed by IT. A significant portion connects
The Glassworm botnet targeting developers in software supply-chain attacks has been disrupted after researchers took down its resilient command-and-control infrastructure relying on Solana blockchain transactions and the BitTorrent DHT network. [...]
The database provider is eyeing a public debut within the next few years.
There is a specific kind of silence that falls in a war room after a breach. I've been in two of them. Not as the person responsible, but as the journalist who got the call. The first was at a mid-sized fintech in 2019. The second, more recently, was at a SaaS company that had been operational for less than eighteen months. In both cases, the root cause wasn't sophisticated. No nation-state actor. No zero-day that nobody had ever seen. In both cases, someone had built an API without thinking ser
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