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  Agentic AI and MPC are coming on strong in the database market. After the likes of Postgres and Oracle, now it's MongoDB's turn to incorporate MCP. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18540-mongodb-now-does-mcp.html

  NODES is the biggest graph community gathering dedicated to applications, data intelligence, knowledge graphs, and AI.  Let's find out what happened this year. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18536-the-gist-of-the-nodes-2025-dev-conference.html

  Claude Scientific Skills give Claude super powers, not just on coding, but about any science. We try them out to see what's on offer. But first of all what are Claude Skills. If you're familiar with CustomGPTs then Skills is something similar. They both enable the LLM to access specialized agents. In the Skills case, they are shaped as plugins which comprise of a mix of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load dynamically when trying to perform a task.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18534-turn-claude-into-your-personal-research-assistant.html

  In cooperation with the Nebius AI cloud platform, JetBrains has launched a set of ten free courses for developers that demonstrate how to incorporate AI in their workflow to become 10X productive. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18528-jetbrains-work-with-ai-effectively.html

  A new Advent calendar had joined those for Java, Kotlin and Rust. We now have  Advent of AI, a series of AI engineering challenges from Goose, that is already underway. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/204-challenges/18518-the-goose-advent-of-ai-has-commenced.html

  Connect to PostgreSQL database instances, run queries, create and manage connections and more, all from inside VSCode. Just announced, the extension simplifies talking to and managing PostgreSQL databases from the ease of the most popular IDE. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18512-postgresql-extension-for-visual-studio-code.html

  Hour Of Code has been renamed. This year and from now on it will be called "Hour Of AI", giving in to this AI-dictated era. Another indication that coding has shifted from a task of manual labor to one of automated generation. Code.org is a trend setter and crucial to kids' education relating to Computer Science, so the rebranding is highly significant. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18502-hour-of-ai-2025-about-to-start.html