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New trend: programming by kicking off parallel AI agents
More devs are experimenting with kicking off coding agents in parallel. Also: comparing interviews at Meta, Amazon, Uber, and 5 other large tech companies
Cognition | Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model
Today we’re releasing SWE-1.5, the latest in our family of models optimized for software engineering. It is a frontier-size model with hundreds of billions of parameters that achieves near-SOTA coding performance. It also sets a new standard for speed: we partnered with Cerebras to serve it at up to 950 tok/s – 6x faster than Haiku 4.5 and 13x faster than Sonnet 4.5. SWE-1.5 is now available in Windsurf!
With custom instructions, you can guide Copilot on how to understand your project as well as how to build, test, and validate its changes. Copilot coding agent, our autonomous background…
I’ve had a version of this post in draft mode for over a year, but today Jean Boussier (@byroot) has a great post about Frozen String Literals in Ruby. Serio...
Custom images for GitHub-hosted runners are now available in public preview - GitHub Changelog
Custom images for GitHub-hosted runners are now available in public preview. This feature allows you to start with a GitHub-curated base image and build your own virtual machine image tailored…
1 vCPU Linux runner now available in GitHub Actions in public preview - GitHub Changelog
GitHub Actions 1 vCPU Linux runners are now in public preview. Customers looking to run lightweight operations can take advantage of these lower cost runners. These runners are optimized for…