Tag: software-engineering

Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 is available now, with notable gains on software engineering, knowledge work, and agentic tasks—while keeping the same price as Opus 4.8.

Cursor says its latest swarm system outperformed an earlier version on a Rust rewrite of SQLite, while using different planner-worker mixes to sharply reduce cost and coordination overhead.

A new controlled study suggests code cleanliness may not change whether a coding agent succeeds, but it does affect how much work the agent has to do.

A new analysis argues that AI spend is already rising fast enough at frontier labs to rival payroll — and that the rest of the market could follow a very different path depending on model prices, usage patterns, and open-weight alternatives.