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How Leaders Can Use “Vibe Coding” For Business Solutions

As a marketing guy with zero technical skills, I "vibe coded" a production app for my company over the weekend—and it worked.
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VS Code 1.109 Deemed a Multi-Agent Development Platform

The January 2026 release of Visual Studio Code expands AI-assisted development with structured planning agents, parallel ...
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Beyond the Magic Word: Testing VS Code 1.109's New Agentic AI Workspace Priming

The January 2026 update to VS Code (v1.109) transforms the editor into a multi-agent orchestration hub, allowing developers ...

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the new macOS desktop app. (No API ...

Want local vibe coding? This AI stack replaces Claude Code and Codex - and it's free

Want local vibe coding? This AI stack replaces Claude Code and Codex - and it's free ...

ChatGPT 5.3 Codex Moves Ahead on Code, While Claude’s 4.6 AI Banks on Reliability

On a 2.0 terminal benchmark, OpenAI’s model scores about 10% higher, guiding users toward stronger results on long, complex ...