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Conare conjures context for Claude Code

Conare promises to improve Claude Code by enabling developers to manage project context, providing reusable elements and a live overview.

Paul Sawers

7 min read

20 Oct 2025

AI Tools & Assistants

Developer Experience

Last Month on the Landscape: 8 Tools in the Spotlight

Explore eight standout AI development tools, each uniquely enhancing workflows through trust and adaptability, as the rapidly evolving landscape prompts developers to rethink their approaches to integration.

Baptiste Fernandez

13 min read

17 Oct 2025

AI Tools & Assistants

Google puts the 'eye' in AI with Chrome DevTools MCP

AI coding assistants can write and reason about code, but they can’t see it. Google wants to change that with Chrome DevTools MCP, a public-preview release that lets AI agents connect directly to a live browser environment through Chrome’s built-in developer toolkit, DevTools.

Paul Sawers

5 min read

15 Oct 2025

AI Tools & Assistants

DevOps & Platform

Chat and code converge as GitHub brings Copilot to Microsoft Teams

How about this for a concept: the IDE of the future is a chat thread, embedded in whatever enterprise messaging app you and your company use. We're not there yet, but the lines between chat and code interfaces are starting to blur.

AI Tools & Assistants

A look at Spec Kit, GitHub’s spec-driven software development toolkit

Spec Kit offers a way to capture and organise software requirements so that AI agents can actually work from them without trying to read the developer’s mind. It turns specifications into a living blueprint: something both humans and machines can interpret, refine, and execute.

Spec Driven Development (SDD)

Rulebook-ai wants to ‘elevate vibe coding to vibe engineering’ by generating assistant-specific configs

Rulebook-AI transforms AI coding assistant configs into structured guidance, eliminating fragmentation and inconsistency. This command-line tool aims to streamline development workflows, enhancing productivity and collaboration across diverse tools.

GitHub’s MCP Registry targets the trust gap in AI interoperability

The GitHub MCP Registry provides a centralized platform for developers to discover and connect to various MCP servers -- it's designed to enhance AI interoperability across tools and workflows.

Why Codeplain is betting on spec-driven software development

Codeplain is one of the early players in the burgeoning spec-driven software development space, shifting from code-centric methods to natural-language specifications.

Paul Sawers

18 min read

3 Oct 2025

Spec Driven Development (SDD)

Code Generation

Taming AI agents with specs: what the experts say

Experts discuss the critical disconnect between intent and implementation in AI-driven coding, emphasizing the need for streamlined markdown specifications to enhance code quality and preserve institutional knowledge.

Simon Maple

18 min read

2 Oct 2025

AI-Native Development

Spec Driven Development (SDD)

Replit puts AI coding agents on a leash with plan mode

Replit's new "plan mode" promises to improve AI coding assistance by restricting direct code changes, enabling developers to collaborate on ideas and designs while mitigating operational risks and ensuring system governance.

AI-Native Development

Anthropic’s eye-watering $183B valuation: the ripple effect for AI, industry and the developer ecosystem

Anthropic’s $183 billion valuation highlights how downstream startups and developers could be exposed to the volatility of multi-billion-dollar bets being made much farther upstream.

GitHub brings Copilot ‘next edit suggestions’ and ‘code review’ to JetBrains

GitHub has extended Copilot’s Next Edit Suggestions to JetBrains’ suite of IDEs, taking the AI-powered editing feature beyond Microsoft’s own developer tools for the first time.