Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Cutting corners: The code looked harmless. A GitHub repository, a small freelance task, and a standard request sent over LinkedIn to a blockchain engineer: run this snippet, fix a few bugs, get paid.

GitHub, a Microsoft (MSFT) unit, said on Tuesday it was introducing “Agent HQ,” which would transform GitHub into an open ecosystem that unites every coding agent on a single platform. “Over the ...