The intuitive way to help a coding agent is to give it more. More context in the prompt, more documents in the window, and the whole project history pasted in before the real request. The more the agent knows, the better it should do. The catch is that an agent will use everything you give…
DetailsA sharp spec gets an agent building the right thing, but a deliberate review is what makes the result something you can stand behind. As agents generate more code, the challenge facing engineering leaders is remaining accountable for the output. Developers say it plainly: “The agent’s work has my name on it.” This puts review…
DetailsOracle on Tuesday described new EBCDIC character set compatibility features in Oracle AI Database for customers transitioning from legacy databases on IBM mainframes. In its post, Oracle noted that EBCDIC compatibility has historically been one of the top technical challenges for enterprises re-platforming to use newer, ASCII-based databases while continuing to use proven legacy applications. …
DetailsThe real risk in legal AI is not the lawyer who studies these tools. It is the associate who quietly pastes a client’s contract into a free chatbot at 11 p.m. because a brief is due and nobody gave them anything better. That lawyer exists at your firm right now. Survey after survey confirms it,…
DetailsAs enterprises grapple with governing growing fleets of AI agents, Snowflake has unveiled Cortex AI Gateway, a new runtime control plane designed to help organizations track agent actions, enforce policies, and manage AI spending across models and tools. Built on technology acquired through the purchase of Natoma earlier in May, Cortex AI Gateway “acts as…
DetailsForward-deployed engineering (FDE), has moved from being a niche delivery model to becoming one of the most important operating patterns for enterprise artificial intelligence. In traditional software programs, organizations could usually separate product engineering, implementation consulting, operations and governance into different teams. Agentic AI changes that separation. An agent does not merely answer a question;…
DetailsSocial media is more than a place to network or follow the latest headlines and trends. For CIOs, platforms like LinkedIn, X, and Bluesky offer direct access to technology executives, AI experts, economists, and business leaders who share ideas, challenge conventional thinking, and provide insights that can help shape tech strategy. Here, 11 IT leaders…
DetailsMedical technology companies have always been in the business of trust, and Abbott has been building it with AI for over 10 years. Long before gen AI entered the enterprise conversation, Abbott was using algorithmic AI to help diabetics manage their glucose, and imaging AI to guide surgeons in real time. Here, Sabina Ewing, Abbott’s…
DetailsThom Hornback has spent 20 years inside large organizations running the kinds of complex implementation projects that transformation programs are built around. He is a Six Sigma black belt, a project management professional and someone who thinks primarily about the people side of change. When he first encountered a process modeling approach that evaluated business…
DetailsMost CIOs have AI on the agenda. Most have started with pilots, some have moved to production. But there’s a quieter, more consequential shift underway that isn’t getting the boardroom attention it deserves: AI agents are no longer just a feature inside your applications. They are becoming an entirely new class of infrastructure consumer —…
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