SD Times News Roundup: Oct. 9, 2026 — OpenAI adds speed capabilities; Functionalize’s new MCP server; Lower SMB pricing for Java SE Universal Subscription

This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.
The Daily Star

Meta releases Code Llama, code writing AI

Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads, has recently released Code Llama, an AI model that can write and generate computer codes.

[Definitive Guide] The '5 Debugging Steps' That Stopped Me From Freezing at Error Screens in My First Year After Changing Jobs

Introduction: The story of how I wasted 3 hours on my first dayOn my first day, I was given my first task."Run this Python ...
How-To Geek

8 super-popular VS Code extensions you don't actually need anymore

You don’t need it anymore because VS Code added native bracket pair colorization in version 1.60 and turned it on by default ...

After upgrading macOS, Flutter release builds stopped at 3 points (Rosetta, Java, Crashlytics) [Personal Development]

A story about how Flutter release builds stopped at 3 points after I upgraded macOSHello. I am a solo developer building smartphone apps with Flutter.This time, it's a story about trouble that ...
How-To Geek

Writing bad code made me twice as productive—but it came with a catch

"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...