How to get a job as a game developer in 2025 – Part 2: Insider advice from a studio game director

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June 25, 2025

Where to next? A quick update about Visual Assist's future from our GM

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June 24, 2025

C++ Pattern Matching: Should C++ Embrace Functional Programming Constructs?

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Visual Assist 2026.4 release post

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June 30, 2026
The first thing you do with Visual Assist is install it. The first thing you do with it on a project is wait for it to parse. VA 2026.4 makes both smoother. Download it now. This is a smaller build between larger ones — a few bigger efforts are running in parallel, shaped by your feedback on recent updates. In the meantime, 2026.4 refreshes the installer, smooths out the initial parse, and…
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AI Coding Tools for C++ Teams: What Leaves Your Machine in 2026

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May 27, 2026
AI coding tools are now part of the conversation in almost every software organization. Sometimes the push comes from developers experimenting on their own. Sometimes it comes from management asking teams to ship faster without increasing headcount. Either way, the discussion quickly runs into the same wall: trust. What leaves the machine? Who can access it? What gets logged, retained, indexed…
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C++26 Reflection: What It Actually Changes for Large Codebases

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May 1, 2026
Reflection landed in C++26 last year, GCC trunk and the Bloomberg-maintained Clang fork already implement most of it. Many conference talks is making it sound like it’s the most important thing to happen to the language in a generation. If you ship production C++ on MSVC, the more useful question is what reflection actually changes about the code you write, and when you’ll be able to…
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Visual Assist 2026.3 release post

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April 3, 2026
Visual Assist 2026.3: Expanding AI Workflows & Improving Performance AI in IDEs is evolving quickly, but for many the hype might feel artificial. For most C++ developers, the question isn’t “can AI write code?” — it’s: “how can I fit this…
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AI in Your IDE: What's Real, What's Hype, and Where C++ Fits In

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March 25, 2026
It’s been roughly three years since AI tools and large language models (LLMs) hit the mainstream in a real, unavoidable way. In that time, people have put them to work writing emails, summarizing legal documents, generating marketing copy, composing music, tutoring students, answering medical questions, planning vacations — and yes, generating entire recipes for whatever’s left in…
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