The hidden skills behind the AI engineer

Artificial intelligence hides more complexity than any technology wave before it. Writing code, wiring APIs, and scaling infrastructure now feel effortless, but that ease conceals an expanding layer of invisible decisions beneath the surface. The hard problems have...

Microsoft lets shopping bots loose in a sandbox

Do you think it’s time to turn an AI agent loose to do your procurement for you? As that could be a potentially expensive experiment to conduct in the real world, Microsoft is attempting to determine whether agent-to-agent ecommerce will really work, without the risk...

Kong Insomnia 12 bolsters AI, MCP tools

Kong has released Insomnia 12, an update to the company’s open-source API development platform. The update is intended to accelerate API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server development with AI-powered collaboration and testing. Unveiled November 4 and generally...