Block unveils Builderbot and says AI now writes 15 percent of its production code

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Block has unveiled Builderbot, an internal AI platform that the company says is already responsible for roughly 15 percent of its production code changes. The system can write code, open pull requests, monitor CI pipelines, and work across Block’s massive codebase, highlighting how AI is becoming an increasingly important part of modern software development.

Cloudflare now controls a huge piece of the open source web

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Cloudflare has acquired VoidZero, the company behind Vite and several major JavaScript development tools. The company promises everything will remain open source and vendor neutral, but developers may still have concerns about growing consolidation in the AI-native web stack.

Microsoft open sources GitHub Copilot Chat for VS Code so you can finally see how the AI sausage is made

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Microsoft has released the source code for its GitHub Copilot Chat extension for Visual Studio Code under the MIT license, giving developers a rare look inside one of its most prominent AI tools.