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Explore the latest in cloud coding agents, autonomous development, and open-source engineering.

Velocity Is Dead: AI-Generated Compilers and the Future of Software

What really matters in a world where velocity of code creation is no longer the bottleneck in software engineering?

SWE-fficiency: Evaluating How to Fix Code, Not Just What to Fix

Introducing SWE-fficiency, a new benchmark that evaluates AI agents on performance engineering—measuring not just if code works, but if agents can make it fast and efficient like senior engineers.

OpenHands Partners with Toad: A Universal Terminal Interface for AI Agents

OpenHands is sponsoring the development of Toad, a universal terminal interface for AI agents. Toad provides a polished, consistent experience for agentic coding tools, and OpenHands is one of its recommended agents.

Refactoring COBOL to Java with AI Agents

Learn how to use AI agents to modernize legacy COBOL codebases to Java. We walk through an iterative refinement approach that uses multiple agents to convert and verify code quality until it meets your standards.