Taming the Code Gremlin

by Gavin Smith | Sep 14, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

AI coding agents can be gloriously useful little code gremlins: they will explore your repository, suggest fixes, run tests, and occasionally redecorate the attic. The secret is not to ask them for more code, but to teach them manners. A good workflow gets better...

Atlassian Teaches Its Robots to Work the Night Shift

by Gavin Smith | Sep 12, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

Atlassian has declared that the next era of software development is not a chatbot you prompt like a vending machine, but an always-on agentic AI that hums along while your stand-up meeting pretends to have a plan. The company announced new upcoming Jira features...

Kotlin Grows a Brain and Learns to Answer the Pager

by Gavin Smith | Sep 11, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

There is a moment when developers stop pretending they can manage every messy detail by hand and let the machine handle the boring heroic parts. For Kotlin, Java, and Android folks, ADK for Kotlin 1.0 general availability is that machine in a freshly ironed shirt. It...

When Developers Move Above the Code

by Gavin Smith | Sep 11, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

For decades, software development has played musical chairs. Waterfall gave way to agile, DevOps shortened distances, CI/CD sped releases, and low-code abstracted parts of coding. Now agentic coding lets AI plan, write, test and modify software. The question is not...

Small Biz, Big Algorithm: How AI Became the 2026 Office Intern Who Never Sleeps

by Gavin Smith | Sep 9, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

In 2026, small and medium-sized businesses are not waiting for AI to turn into a chrome-plated oracle. They are using it like a caffeinated intern who can read a spreadsheet without blinking. The most common moves are refreshingly mundane: automating repetitive tasks,...

When the Robot Writes Code But Can’t Leave the House

by Gavin Smith | Sep 7, 2026 | AI Solutions, Technology News

Every enterprise technology announcement eventually faces the same question: will it help developers move faster, or will it help security teams move their coffee mugs away from the fire? Coder Agent Relay, launched with SpaceXAI as its first partner, tries to do both...