The New Stack
DevOps, open source, and cloud native news with resources and insights for developers
Is Your Internal Platform Ready to Keep Up With AI-Accelerated Development?
AI‑powered coding assistants are pushing developers to ship code faster than traditional Continuous Delivery pipelines can reliably serve. As a result, platform engineers are inundated with ad‑hoc requests, manual handoffs, and inconsistent delivery across teams. The New Stack promotes an upcoming April 23 online event that will showcase how an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) can turn existing delivery infrastructure into a self‑service experience while preserving guardrails. Attendees will learn practical strategies to scale platforms without adding operational complexity.
OpenAI’s Agents SDK Separates the Harness From the Compute
OpenAI unveiled a major upgrade to its Agents SDK, introducing sandboxed workspaces that separate the agent harness from the compute layer. The new toolbox lets developers run agents in containers or virtual machines from providers such as Cloudflare, Modal, Vercel,...
Claude Code and the Rise of Personal Software
Anthropic’s Claude Code, an agentic AI coding assistant, has surged to $2.5 billion in annualized revenue by February 2026, more than doubling its November‑2025 figure. The tool lets non‑technical staff in marketing, finance and other functions describe desired functionality and receive fully...
What Engineering Leaders Get Wrong About Data Stack Consolidation
IBM's $11 billion acquisition of Confluent underscores a growing trend of open‑source data tools being folded into large vendor platforms. The article warns that such consolidation creates hidden architectural debt, eroding engineering autonomy and long‑term portability. It urges leaders to evaluate...
Why Observability Platforms Are Becoming AI Auditing Tools
Enterprises are moving AI workloads from labs to production, exposing gaps in traditional monitoring. Observability platforms are evolving into AI auditing tools that trace prompts, LLM reasoning, token usage, and final decisions. HPE OpsRamp exemplifies this shift, offering an "AI...
Anthropic’s Redesigned Claude Code Desktop App Lets You Burn Through Tokens Even Faster
Anthropic unveiled a major redesign of its Claude Code desktop app, adding a built‑in terminal and a flexible pane system for managing multiple coding agents. The update introduces side‑chat windows that let users ask questions without halting an active session,...
Spring Creator Wants Java’s Type System to Tame Agentic AI
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, unveiled Embabel, an Apache‑licensed agentic AI framework for the JVM, at Microsoft’s JDConf. Built on Spring Boot and written in Kotlin, Embabel leverages Java’s strong type system and GOAP planning to deliver deterministic,...
Claude Mythos Preview Completes Full Cyberattack Simulation for the First Time
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, released in early April, has become the first AI model to autonomously execute a full 32‑step corporate network takeover in a controlled simulation. In tests conducted by the UK AI Security Institute, the model completed an...
Can You Make Kubernetes Invisible? Here’s Why AWS Is on a Mission to Do It.
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service principal product manager Jesse Butler outlined a mission to make Kubernetes effectively invisible to developers. He highlighted that roughly 80% of enterprises now run Kubernetes in production, yet operational complexity remains a barrier. Butler showcased AWS‑backed...
From Clobbered Drafts to Real-Time Sync
Suga’s early canvas used a naive last‑write‑wins model that repeatedly clobbered teammates’ drafts, prompting a shift to real‑time synchronization. The team adopted Rocicorp’s Zero sync engine, which gives each client a local SQLite cache that syncs with a PostgreSQL backend...
Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex Are Merging Into One AI Coding Stack Nobody Planned
AI coding tools are coalescing into a composable stack rather than consolidating around a single winner. In early April 2026 Cursor released version 3 with an Agents Window that orchestrates parallel AI agents, OpenAI published a Codex plugin that runs inside...
HPA-Managed Workloads: Why the Obvious Waste Stays
Kubernetes teams often overprovision resources for HPA‑managed services, especially model‑serving workloads, because request settings double as scaling triggers. While the waste is visible, changing requests risks altering scaling behavior, leading teams to accept excess headroom for predictability. Standard rightsizing loops...
Karpathy Says Developers Have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone Else Is Next.
Andrej Karpathy warned that developers are undergoing an "AI Psychosis" as frontier models like OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code solve programming problems in minutes that once took weeks. The same agentic capabilities are now spilling into broader enterprise functions...
Why Data Governance Is the Secret to AI Agent Success
The article warns that AI agents can magnify weak DevOps and data‑governance practices, turning minor flaws into large‑scale risks. While 70% of IT leaders believe strong DevOps aids AI adoption, only 39% have automated audit trails, exposing a governance gap....
Replit Taps RevenueCat to Help Vibe-Coders Make Money
Replit has integrated RevenueCat’s subscription infrastructure directly into its AI‑driven coding platform, allowing users to add monetization features with simple natural‑language prompts. The partnership brings RevenueCat’s billing, pricing analytics, and compliance tools—used by over 80,000 apps handling roughly $1 billion in...
