The New Stack

When OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy speaks, even Elon Musk reacts.

Karpathy had just recorded a two-and-a-half-hour interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. And their wide-ranging discussion challenged conventional wisdom, with Karpathy pointing out roadblocks on any road to artificial general intelligence (AGI), and arguing that we’re 10 years away from AI agents.

Right off the bat, Karpathy said “there’s some over-prediction going on in the industry.” And later, on X.com, he provided specifics on his own…

Linux has been slowly gaining popularity over the past few years for both end users and developers. There are many reasons for that, such as the end of Windows 10, ease of use, flexibility, reliability, gaming and … development.

That’s right, Linux is an outstanding platform for development. Not only does it have all of the tools you need, but those tools are generally free, open sourc, and easy to install. On top of that, you have Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, virtual machines (VMs) and much more.

Generally speaking, it’s easy to list…

Things are changing over at Lodash and the project is starting a new chapter, according to Ulises Gascón, who is a member of the Express Technical Committee, a Node.js core collaborator and releaser, and a TC39 delegate.

Lodash is a popular open source JavaScript utility library that provides helpful, efficient and consistent functions for common programming tasks. It simplifies working with core JavaScript data structures, such as arrays, objects, numbers and strings. More than 9.3 million live websites use it, including a third of the top…

“The ChatGPT app ecosystem is built on trust,” OpenAI’s guidelines for app developers proclaim.

As the AI ecosystem expands, OpenAI’s ChatGPT needs help drilling down on local information — and this is primarily what the OpenAI Apps SDK, introduced at the beginning of the month, is for. The problem for OpenAI is that it is actually the web that is built on trust; but for all intents and purposes, OpenAI wants to bypass that.

The development process is relatively austere and unapproachable, so this post just focuses on the basic…

Frontend developer Sam Selikoff, who recently joined Vercel as staff engineer, had a pressing question for the Next.js team: Why couldn’t developers have snappy navigations while using React Server Components (RSC)?

“I love the DX of the app router, and server components were a great addition to React, especially for just fetching data and rendering it on the page,” he told audiences at the Next.js Conference, held Oct. 22. “I just didn’t understand why using RSCs meant we had to give up on the snappy client navigation that we’re…

Core Web Vitals (CWVs) are some of the most standardized, user-experience-based telemetry we have for monitoring frontend performance. They’re incredibly useful for getting a snapshot into fundamental performance aspects of a website, like load time and interactivity. But user expectations and industry tooling have both moved beyond static metrics, and CWVs, in isolation, aren’t enough to keep up with performance demands.

Often, these metrics are treated like SEO scores. And while CWVs are critical for website ranking and discoverability,…

The October 20 AWS outage was a powerful reminder of just how interconnected today’s applications and services have become. From banking to streaming, healthcare to logistics, organizations of all sizes and industries rely on a complex web of public cloud and other third-party services. As we saw, a single disruption can quickly cascade, affecting not just one company but entire industries and millions of end users.

Faced with such disruption, it’s natural to ask: Why aren’t more companies able to build effective redundancies to shield…

For this episode of The New Stack Agents, TNS Publisher Alex Williams and I talked to Keith Ballinger, the vice president and general manager of the Google Cloud Platform Developer Experience group.

Ballinger is one of those rare executives who still frequently codes and who is also deep into building and using the latest agentic coding tools. Unsurprisingly, we spent some time talking about Gemini CLI, Google’s direct competitor to products like Claude Code and Gemini’s Codex, and one of the key products Ballinger is currently…

Context is king in the agentic world. Pairing a performant reasoning model like Claude, DeepSeek or GPT-5 with the right context drives efficient planning and tool usage and improves multistep reasoning, leading to personalized conversations, higher task accuracy and relevant responses.

In this article, we present the need for context engineering and associated benefits, identify challenges developers face as they use it for developing AI agents, and propose a high-level architecture to help address them.

Solving the Context Dilemma: Too Much…

The elephant in the engineering room right now is that most AI failures aren’t about model accuracy or even the quality of your training data. Instead, many organizations aren’t getting what they want (or expect) out of AI because they’re trying to serve real-time predictions from a batch-processed data pipeline.

I’m hands-on with a lot of enterprises that have built impressive machine learning (ML) models that deliver sub-second inference times … and then feed them data that’s already hours old. The Ferrari engine has square…