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Apple Sends Siri Staffers to Coding ‘Bootcamp’ in Latest Shakeup For Organization

By Aaron Tilley and Amir Efrati · Apr 15, 2026 12:44pm PDT · 2 comments
Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant, people familiar with the team said. The company plans to send a significant chunk of people working on Siri—a group that totals in the hundreds—to a... Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before...
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A Coding Assistant’s Bet on Ads Seems to Be Paying Off

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Nov 17, 2025 7:00am PST
Before we get to today’s column, it’s worth pointing out that Google CEO Sundar Pichai strongly hinted on X that Gemini 3, the long-awaited next update to Google’s line of Gemini models, would be coming out this week. Google has done an impressive job of catching up to the other labs when it comes to conversational AI models, and Gemini 3 will... Before we get to today’s column, it’s worth pointing out that Google CEO Sundar Pichai strongly...
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Which Coding Assistants Retain Their Customers and Which Ones Don’t

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Shane Burke · Jun 25, 2025 7:00am PDT · 4 comments
The explosion in AI coding assistants, used by developers to make apps and websites, has raised questions about whether developers will be loyal to any of them or if they’ll switch around based on which one has access to the best coding model or capabilities at the moment.But new data from research firm Indagari, based on credit card transaction... The explosion in AI coding assistants, used by developers to make apps and websites, has raised...
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Google’s ‘Always-On’ Coding Agent Is Coming. Where Is OpenAI’s?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · May 13, 2025 7:00am PDT
AI coding assistants today have saved software engineers lots of time. The CEOs of Amazon, Google and many others can’t stop talking about it during their earnings calls.But even the most popular AI coding tools today often work side-by-side with human engineers and require a lot of prompting and hand-holding.That’s about to change.Google, for... AI coding assistants today have saved software engineers lots of time. The CEOs of Amazon, Google...
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The Three Classes of AI Coding Assistants

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 18, 2025 7:10am PST
The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said... The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large...
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How Eight AI Coding Assistants Stack Up

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 16, 2023 7:00am PDT · 2 comments
Hello!One of the earliest companies to commercialize generative AI was GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code repository, which released its AI coding assistant Copilot under preview in June 2021. Powered by OpenAI’s technology, the assistant quickly captured the hearts of developers by giving them a tool that suggests code fragments while they type,... Hello!One of the earliest companies to commercialize generative AI was GitHub, the Microsoft...