I've been using Claude Code for all kinds of things lately, but I'm always worried about my token usage, even on the Max plan. Especially with Opus 4.7, where my allocation seems to get burned through ...

If you’ve been programming for any number of years, you’ve pretty much lived through a bunch of hype cycles. Whether it’s a new development environment, a new language, a new plugin, or some new ...

This is the local LLM-related news for the week of October 5 (Mon) to October 11 (Sun), 2026.This week, models were released ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Being able to understand the intricacies of your code when you are writing it is a major part of learning a new programming language. Thanks to the explosion in AI technology, it is now possible for ...

StarCoder2 is an advanced open-source coding language model designed for developers, is being made offering three variants with different parameter sizes: 3 billion, 7 billion, and 15 billion. It is ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

The free large language model, which was jointly developed by the two companies under the BigCode Project, was trained on licensed source code covering over 80 programming languages. ServiceNow and ...

Meta is adding another Llama to its herd—and this one knows how to code. On Thursday, Meta unveiled “Code Llama,” a new large language model (LLM) based on Llama 2 that is designed to assist ...

A 42-of-42 failure rate in our LLM benchmark was a parser bug. How we found it, fixed our scorer without fudging results, and ...