AI for Coding
AI is reshaping software development faster than any other profession — from Copilot autocomplete to agents like Claude Code and Cursor that write, fix and refactor whole projects. "Vibe coding" — building software through natural-language dialogue — has entered the mainstream. Here is everything on AI coding tools: releases, benchmarks (SWE-bench) and the debate over quality and productivity.
Hebbian Learning Without Backprop Collapsed Into k-means and Lost on Every Front
A Habr author trained a hidden layer using only local Hebbian rules. The rule collapsed into k-means and beat backprop on accuracy, on few-label performance and on…
I Wrote 61 Tests for My AI Mentor. Then I Found Out You Can't Trust the Tests Either
A developer built 61 tests to check an AI mentor on a coding education platform. But the test bench itself had bugs: it marked cut-off answers as passing and let…
A Habr Essay Reopens the Debate Over Who Owns Open Source Code in the Age of AI
A Habr essay revives the licensing debate: from the Redis and Terraform forks to the 700 million-user threshold in the Llama license and the GitHub Copilot lawsuit.
Crunchbase: AI and Energy Lead the Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds
Torvalds explains where AI helps him and where it endangers the Linux kernel
Goldman Sachs moves to the third phase of AI: from saving money to making it
Trump Awards National Medal of Science to Musk, Huang, Su and Brin
Debian Opens Art Contest for Forky Release — Debian 14 Is Looking for Artists
Debian has opened submissions for Forky artwork, the future Debian 14. The last release, Trixie, shipped on 9 August 2025, and the project's release cycle runs…
NTU Singapore Researchers Cut Decision-Software Development From Months to an Hour
NTU Singapore researchers built an AI framework that automates complex decision-making software, cutting months of engineering work to about one hour.
Russia Unveils Prototype AI Textbook Covering 28 Topics on Artificial Intelligence
Avito Built Aviflow: An ML Platform for Distributed LLM Training on HGX
Programmer Mikhail Singatullin Files Offline Memory System for AI Agents With Russia's Software Registry
Developer releases an overlay that lets AI agents draw arrows and boxes on your screen
LLM Development in 2026: RAG, Agents, and Choosing Models
A senior engineer at Finam shares the practice of LLM development: the main direction is integration through RAG and agents. In 90% of cases, small models are…
NVIDIA Physis-Lang Describes Physics in Words and Takes First Place on Physics-IQ Verified
NVIDIA's Physis-Lang uses text descriptions of physical processes, such as melting butter, to help a video model reproduce physics more accurately. NVIDIA says it…