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AI coding assistants are only as good as the context you give them

AI coding assistants have quickly become part of everyday development. Teams now rely on them to explain unfamiliar code, suggest configuration files, debug errors, and accelerate delivery across the stack. But as these tools move from experimentation into real production workflows, a consistent pattern is emerging: AI breaks down at the platform boundary.

A buyer's guide to engineering intelligence platforms in 2026

You're in a planning meeting when someone asks a simple question. How long does it actually take your team to ship a feature? You've got spreadsheets, Git logs, and Jira exports scattered across three tabs, and you still can't give a confident answer. It's a question you should be able to answer instantly, but the data lives in too many places to stitch together on the fly.

HVAC Software Explained: What It Is and How HVAC Businesses Use It

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning businesses operate in an environment where timing, accuracy, and coordination matter every day. Service calls are time-sensitive, technician availability changes quickly, and customer expectations continue to rise. To manage these demands, many contractors now rely on hvac software to organise operations, reduce administrative strain, and maintain consistency as workloads grow.

What the Latest Google "AI Mode" Means for Users Who Care about Privacy and Better Experiences

When Google introduced its AI highlights above the main search results, we thought that was all the company would push to prove its determination to turn traditional Google Search, praised by businesses for expansive SEO opportunities, into an AI-powered experience. But if you live in the U.S. and have recently paid attention to the Google homepage, there's a new button called "AI Mode." Well, it turns out the company is still working hard not to lose its dominance to competitors.

X Downloader and Twitter Downloader: Save Videos, Audio, and Broadcasts in HD

Whether you still call it Twitter or have switched to saying X, finding content worth keeping happens daily. A viral clip catches your attention. A musician shares an unreleased track. A live broadcast delivers breaking news. Without a reliable Twitter downloader, that content exists only as long as the original poster decides to keep it online.

IT Observability in 2026: Lessons From the Past Year

As IT organizations enter 2026, many of the assumptions around monitoring and observability have already been tested. Throughout 2025, infrastructure teams made it clear that visibility alone is not enough. Alerts without context, short data retention, and fragmented tools limited teams’ ability to explain behavior, validate changes, and plan with confidence. This article looks at what emerged from those experiences and how observability expectations continue to shift.

Top tips: RAG isn't the problem, context is. Here are 3 fixes.

Top Tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll be talking about how we can improve our retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using contextual engineering. Prompt engineering has gained a lot of attention in the past year, and it’s finally time to move on to a better experience that transforms the way AI results are provided to us.

Deploy a serverless Python API to Scaleway Functions using CircleCI

Serverless platforms have revolutionized the way developers build and deploy APIs, eliminating the need to manage servers or underlying infrastructure. With serverless, you can focus entirely on your application logic and let the platform handle scaling, availability, and maintenance. Scaleway Serverless Functions is a flexible serverless platform that makes it easy to deploy lightweight APIs and background jobs in the cloud.

Sending Custom Application Metrics to MetricFire's Hosted Graphite

In this article, we’ll show how easy it is to send custom application metrics directly to MetricFire's public carbon endpoint. We’ll build a small Flask application, emit a handful of practical metrics, and generate local traffic to demonstrate how quickly meaningful data can flow from your code to your dashboards.

Key Insights from the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Container Networking

In 2025, as modern applications became ever more distributed and the use of Kubernetes continued to proliferate, the role of container networking was critical. Today’s enterprises demand networking solutions that can scale, secure, and connect services reliably, whether those services run across multiple clouds, hybrid environments, or on-premises clusters.