DevToolsDigest: Issue #330
This week's digest includes news and resources from Wiz, Tessl, and more.
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The Week in Developer Tools
Announcing AI Native Dev
AI Native Dev is built by and for developers who want to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI-powered software engineering. AI Native Dev will continue to expand with news articles, deep dives on AI development tools, and perspectives on AI Native Development.
Here’s How I Use LLMs to Help Me Write Code
Using LLMs to write code is difficult and unintuitive. If someone tells you that coding with LLMs is easy they are (probably unintentionally) misleading you. They may well have stumbled on to patterns that work, but those patterns do not come naturally to everyone.
From Physics to AI: Building a 200ms Coding Assistant
In this episode of Fun Fun Function, Guy Gur-Ari, co-founder of Augment Code and former Google AI researcher, shares how his fascinating journey from theoretical physics to AI led him to build one of the fastest coding assistants in the industry, achieving 200ms response times while maintaining full codebase awareness.
Industry Research
Tech Debt is An Outdated Concept
The term technical debt was coined over 30 years ago by Ward Cunningham. It was invented to help business stakeholders in a financial institution understand the costs of not investing extra time and skill in writing high-quality, maintainable code. It doesn’t help that engineers frequently disagree on what tech debt is.
Product Strategy for Open Source Projects and Companies
More open source projects should proactively think about their product strategy. Product strategy is not a release plan or roadmap. It's a framework for how you decide what gets on your roadmap and, perhaps even more critically, what does not get on your roadmap.
The State of AI in the Cloud 2025
85% of organizations are using some form of AI. As this technology cements itself, its potential for innovation—and disruption—has never been greater. Wiz Research's findings reinforce: AI software brings massive opportunities—but also serious risks.