Month March 2026

Last month, a popular npm package with 10M+ weekly downloads got compromised. Teams scrambled to check if their projects were affected. Most used npm audit — but that only catches known vulnerabilities in your lockfile. What if you could programmatically…

AI is beginning to change how software is produced. Instead of just assisting developers inside the editor, AI agents now investigate issues, generate code, run tests, and execute multi-step workflows. As this work scales, software development extends beyond individual tools…

“Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.” — Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of Test-Driven Development. I believe the Java language architects didn’t exactly hit the mark when designing the API for the original JDBC library…

Cuando los agentes de IA tienen muchas herramientas similares, a menudo seleccionan la incorrecta y consumen tokens excesivos al procesar todas las descripciones de herramientas. Este articulo demuestra como la seleccion semantica de herramientas filtra tools antes del procesamiento del…

By Aman | Team Clarion | Code Mentor AI “Six of us. Same loop problem. Same wrong answer. And the platform LeetCode, Scrimba, take your pick gave us all the same hint. The issue wasn’t just that these platforms forgot…

How to Generate an Audit Trail for AI Agent Actions (With Visual Proof) You’ve deployed an AI agent to handle customer refunds. It works perfectly in testing. But your compliance officer asks: “How do we prove what the agent actually…

What does an IP address mean? Every device that is connected to a computer network has a unique number called an IP address (Internet Protocol address). An IP address is like a home address in that it tells the internet…

On March 19, OpenAI announced that it would acquire Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. The Astral team, led by founder Charlie Marsh, will join OpenAI’s Codex team. The deal is subject to regulatory approval. First and foremost:…

Last week, in the first part of this series, we explained why two analysts can produce two different answers from the same data, and why that problem gets worse with AI agents. Without a shared semantic layer defining metrics and…

“There’s never been a better time to be a JVM or Spring developer.” Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long is the first Spring Developer Advocate, starting in 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including Reactive…