AI News

September 24, 2025

• An interesting AI article from the LangChain blog today on how to make Claude Code more effective. They studied the most effective ways to improve Claude Code's performance and found the best way to improve code quality was project-specific instructions in the claude.md file. The overall best way was pairing Claude Code with claude.md and an MCP server to search the project docs. But, Claude Code + claude.md had the biggest single jump in improvement. Interstingly, they did the code quality assessments with an LLM-as-judge style test harness.
• With the recent release of Java 25, the GitHub Copilot App Modernization tool seems really powerful for migrating Java and .NET applications to newer versions of those platforms. (Hat-tip, John!)