Visual Studio Magazine

Low-Code Report Says AI Will Enhance, Not Replace DIY Dev Tools

Along with replacing software developers and possibly killing humanity, advanced AI is seen by many as a death knell for the do-it-yourself, low-code/no-code tooling industry, but a new report belies ...
Variety

Marvel’s Visual Department Director Andy Park Exits After 16 Years Amid Disney Layoffs: ‘I Couldn’t Be Prouder of the History We Made’

Andy Park, Marvel’s director of visual development, has left the studio after 16 years as part of Disney’s layoffs. Park took to social media to announce his departure. He wrote, “Marvel Studios ...
AV Club

Disney just laid off the team responsible for giving the MCU its shared visual identity

Disney announced big layoffs earlier this week, reporting that roughly 1,000 employees across the company had just had their jobs eliminated. While the cuts were company-wide, reports from Forbes ...

Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool

A new startup called Dessn has raised $6M to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.
Gizmodo

Disney’s Massive Layoffs Have Seemingly Hit Marvel Hard

About 1,000 people are facing layoffs at Disney—with Marvel Studios reportedly facing big cuts that include almost wiping out its visual development team. Reading time 2 minutes As Disney prepares to ...
Stark Insider

Three Models of Agentic Development, and Why the IDE Still Wins

A tool I’ve been using for a while, Roo Code, an extension for Visual Studio Code, recently made a decision that got me ...
nerdist

Marvel Lays Off Andy Park, Head of Visual Development Team

Artist Andy Park, who had been the lead director of visual development at Marvel Studios since 2010, has been let go. His dismissal comes as part of mass layoffs that the Walt Disney Company initiated ...
bleedingcool

Marvel Studios Visual Development Layoffs "The End of an Era": Park

With The Walt Disney Company rolling out layoffs across New York's Marvel Entertainment and Burbank's Marvel Studios, we've been hearing more personal stories from artists and creative talent impacted ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Generative AI VS Code Tool Now Does Unit Testing

With generative AI being all the rage these days, Tabnine has updated its AI-powered code completion tool for Visual Studio Code with new functionality: unit testing. The Tabnine VS Code extension in ...
Polygon

Former Marvel Studios artists speak out on Disney layoffs and possible AI use

This week, The Walt Disney Company initiated company-wide layoffs that affected departments across the entire organization, targeting everything from the home video team to ESPN. One division was hit ...
Comic Book Movie

Marvel Studios Has Laid Off Director Of Visual Development Andy Park, One Of The MCU's Architects

Andy Park has been with Marvel Studios since work started on Captain America: The First Avenger in 2010. He's responsible for many of the most iconic costumes and moments we've seen in the MCU, and ...