Category: Software Lifecycle Engineering

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises
March 11, 2026

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines OpenAI's acquisition of Promptfoo and what it signals about the security and governance requirements blocking AI agents from enterprise production....
Did GitHub Agent HQ Quietly Show Up in Microsoft VS Code 1.110
March 10, 2026

Did GitHub Agent HQ Quietly Show Up in Microsoft VS Code 1.110?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how VS Code 1.110’s agent plugins, hooks, and Git-based distribution embed agent development control surface capabilities directly into the...
Microsoft Leaders Have an Answer To AI Gutting the Developer Pipeline
March 4, 2026

Microsoft Leaders Have an Answer To AI Gutting the Developer Pipeline

Mitch Ashley, VP and Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Microsoft leaders' warning that AI productivity gains are gutting the developer talent pipeline and how their preceptorship model...
Elastic Q3 FY 2026 Strong Quarter, but Reacceleration Thesis Unproven
March 3, 2026

Elastic Q3 FY 2026: Strong Quarter, but Reacceleration Thesis Unproven

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum reviews Elastic Q3 FY 2026 earnings, highlighting sales-led subscription momentum, AI context engineering adoption, and agentic workflow expansion across...
Google ADK Is Not a Toolkit – It Is an Agent Execution Framework
March 3, 2026

Google ADK Is Not a Toolkit – It Is an Agent Execution Framework

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on how Google ADK’s new integrations turn agent frameworks into an execution layer, connecting GitHub,...
February 26, 2026

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IBM vs. Anthropic A Tale of the COBOL Modernization Tape
February 26, 2026

IBM vs. Anthropic: A Tale of the COBOL Modernization Tape

Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the IBM vs. Anthropic COBOL modernization debate and explains why choosing the right AI tool is the wrong...
Claude Found 500 Zero-Days. Who Patches Them Before Attackers Arrive
February 24, 2026

Claude Found 500 Zero-Days. Who Patches Them Before Attackers Arrive?

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on AI-driven zero-day discovery and why Anthropic’s Claude Code Security exposes a race condition between vulnerability discovery and patch...
AWS's Deploy-to-AWS Plugin Frictionless Deployment or Developer Honeypot
February 24, 2026

AWS’s Deploy-to-AWS Plugin: Frictionless Deployment or Developer Honeypot?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines AWS Agent Plugins for AWS and why the deploy-to-AWS plugin is less a developer productivity tool and more a strategic move to...
Rovo MCP Server Formalizes AI Access to Enterprise Work Data
February 12, 2026

Rovo MCP Server Formalizes AI Access to Enterprise Work Data

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Atlassian’s Rovo MCP Server GA and how it formalizes AI agent access to enterprise work data across Jira...
Is Entire's Agent-Native Platform the Blueprint for Software Development
February 12, 2026

Is Entire’s Agent-Native Platform the Blueprint for Software Development?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes Entire's $60M launch, rethinking software development for AI agents. Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's platform captures agent context in Git, signaling that...
Truth or Dare What Can Claude Agent Teams And Developers Create Today
February 10, 2026

Truth or Dare: What Can Claude Agent Teams And Developers Create Today?

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines what Anthropic’s Claude agent teams reveal about AI-driven software development today, separating experience reports from externally credible capability...

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