Will software engineering profession die in the age of AI? IBM stock bleeds as Claude Code writes COBOL scripts. What it means for techies

AI agents like Claude Code are reshaping software development by automating legacy modernisation and routine coding. A recent ‘casualty’ of this was the legendary firm IBM, whose stocks fell.
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OpenAI Introduces Harness Engineering: Codex Agents Power Large‑Scale Software Development

OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line ...
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Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Multi-Cloud Support

Platform Engineering Labs today announced a major update to its open source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, ...

Chainguard Customers Have 94% Python Ecosystem Coverage for Their Environments

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, today announced it has expanded Chainguard Libraries coverage across Python, Java, and JavaScript, with customers seeing 94% coverage across the Python ...
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Eclipse Foundation unveils full agenda for OCX 2026

BRUSSELS, Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software organisations, has announced the full agenda for Open Community Experience (OCX 2026 ...
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Synechron Partners With Cognition to Bring Autonomous AI Engineering to Global Financial Institutions

Synechron, a leading digital transformation consulting firm, and Cognition today announced a strategic partnership to help global financial institutions modernize critical software faster using ...

NVIDIA starts listing jobs for Linux gaming with Valve's Proton in mind

NVIDIA job listings point to deeper Linux investment, with Vulkan and Proton performance now clearly part of the company’s broader graphics strategy.

IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...

Eclipse Foundation Canada: Eclipse Foundation unveils full agenda for OCX 2026

Europe's cross-industry open source event expands with five high-impact collocated communities across AI, automotive, compliance, research, and toolingBRUSSELS, Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The E ...

Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed ...

Prem Kireet Chowdary Nimmalapudi Announces New AI Research, ML Role at JPMorgan Chase, and Social-Impact Platform Launch

COLUMBUS, MD, UNITED STATES, January 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Prem Kireet Chowdary Nimmalapudi, an AI engineer, ...

AWS: Why agentic AI marks an inflection point for enterprise modernization

Every conversation I have with enterprise leaders today carries an unmistakable urgency about AI transformation. The economics have changed, possibilities have expanded dramatically, and the pressure ...