Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code. I've spent the past several months reading my colleagues' ...

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VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...

Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.

VS Code update also introduces assisted permissions for agent tool calls in the agent host and clickable file links in Git ...

Full-stack geospatial software engineering and applied machine learning. I tested all three on real full-stack work: a Next.js feature, a backend API bug, a legacy refactor, and a test-writing ...