This week in AI dev tools: GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, and more (August 8, 2025)

OpenAI launches GPT-5 OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according to …

Melissa brings its data quality solutions to Azure with new SSIS integration

Melissa, a provider of data quality solutions, is making it possible for customers to run its SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components in Azure Data Factory through the Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime. This brings the power of Melissa’s data quality features to the cloud, providing customers greater flexibility in where their data is stored. SSIS is …

OpenAI launches GPT-5

During a livestream today, OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger repositories. Early testers said that it made better design choices in terms of spacing, typography, and white space, according …

Elastic simplifies log analytics for SREs and developers with launch of Log Essentials

Elastic has announced the release of Log Essentials, providing SREs and developers with capabilities for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and alerting on logs. It is designed to enable developers to access observability capabilities without needing to manage the operations, upgrades, or tuning.  “SREs need a hassle-free, scale-as-you-go, high-availability logging solution that empowers them to focus entirely …

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Accelerate tool adoption with a developer experimentation framework

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OpenAI releases two open weight reasoning models

OpenAI is joining the open weight model game with the launch of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.  Gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production, high reasoning use cases, and gpt-oss-20b is designed for lower latency or local use cases.  According to the company, these open models are comparable to its closed models in terms of performance and capability, but …

.NET Aspire’s CLI reaches general availability in 9.4 release

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet.  .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to build distributed apps with observability built in.  With this release, Aspire’s CLI is now generally available and includes four core …

African training program creates developers with cloud-native skills

With cloud native technologies becoming foundational for software development and deployment, and finding developers skilled in those areas a challenge, talent marketplace provider Andela and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation have partnered to create the Kubernetes African Developer Training Program that more than 5,600 Africans have completed. Andela and the CNCF are looking to train …

Is Agile dead in the age of AI?

Since the 2001 Agile Manifesto, software development has thrived on principles like “individuals and interactions over processes,” continuous delivery, and embracing change. Over the following decades, we watched Agile disrupt heavyweight, documentation-driven SDLCs by enabling iterative value delivery and adaptive planning. Now, fast forward to 2025, and AI is drastically changing software development. Models like …

The hidden crisis behind AI’s promise: Why data quality became an afterthought

Companies rushed into AI adoption without building the data foundations necessary to make it work reliably. Now they’re discovering that even the most sophisticated algorithms can’t overcome fundamentally flawed information, and the consequences extend far beyond poor performance metrics.  The problem is strategic. Companies are building AI applications on data foundations that were never designed …

July 2025: All AI updates from the past month

Google’s new Opal tool allows users to create mini AI apps with no coding required Google has launched a new experimental AI tool designed for users who want to build apps entirely using AI prompts, with no coding needed at all. Opal allows users to create mini AI apps by chaining together AI prompts, models, and …

Understanding the code modernization conundrum

Like many large enterprises, we must navigate the beauty and chaos of legacy code. In our case, decades of SQL procedures and business logic that underpin a platform capable of handling over 3 million concurrent users and hundreds of micro code deployments per week. It’s a complex machine. Touch one part, and you risk breaking …

AI-generated code poses major security risks in nearly half of all development tasks, Veracode research reveals   

While AI is becoming better at generating that functional code, it is also enabling attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in that code more quickly and effectively. This is making it easier for less-skilled programmers to attack the code, increasing the speed and sophistication of those attacks — creating a situation in which code vulnerabilities …

Stack Overflow: Developers’ trust in AI outputs is worsening year over year

More and more developers are adopting AI, but the trust they have in its outputs is getting worse and worse over the years. This is according to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which gathered responses from 49,000 developers across 177 countries. This year, 84% of respondents say they are using or plan to use AI …

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