The Subscription Arbitrage Endgame
Anthropic tried technical blocks. Got their source leaked. Now they're shifting to billing enforcement. The four-month arc from hostile crackdown to 'use what you want, but pay for it.'
Read more →The Claude Code Leak: What the Harness Actually Looks Like
Anthropic accidentally published Claude Code's full source via npm. Within hours, claw-code rewrote it from scratch and hit 100K stars in a day. The interesting part isn't the leak - it's what the architecture reveals.
Read more →April's First 72 Hours: Cursor 3, Gemma 4, Free Qwen 3.6, and the Agent Push
Three major AI releases landed in 72 hours. A new Cursor built around agents, Google's first Apache 2.0 models, and a free model that found real bugs in my codebase.
Read more →npm Had a Very Bad Day
Axios got supply-chain attacked. Claude Code's source code leaked from a stray map file. Both happened on the same day. Both are pipeline failures. The pattern is getting louder.
Read more →The Workspace CLI: A Daily Driver for Multi-Repo Chaos
What happens when you build a single CLI to wrangle 40+ repos, Linear projects, timesheets, and AI agent config distribution. Lessons from six months as a daily driver.
Read more →DiffBeats: Turn Your Pull Requests Into Songs
Introducing DiffBeats - a GitHub App that generates original songs from your PRs. Comment /songify, get a custom track. Because shipping code should feel like something.
Read more →Claude Code Auto-Fix: The PR That Fixes Itself
Claude Code can now watch your PRs in the cloud, fix CI failures, and address reviewer comments while you're away. It's the logical next step after auto mode - and it raises the same trust questions, harder.
Read more →Claude Code Auto Mode: The Absent Human
Anthropic's new auto mode replaces manual permission prompts with an AI classifier. It's a clever solution to a real problem - but the problem it's solving is that the human in human-in-the-loop was never really there.
Read more →The Dependency You Didn't Install Just Stole Your Keys
The litellm supply chain attack exfiltrated SSH keys, cloud credentials, and Kubernetes secrets from 97 million monthly downloads. A security scanner was the entry point. The scariest part: it was caught by accident.
Read more →Channels: The Crab Eats the Lobster
Anthropic shipped Claude Code Channels - text your agent from Telegram. It's OpenClaw's core feature, rebuilt as a platform primitive. The absorption pattern completes its biggest cycle yet.
Read more →Impeccable: The Design Vocabulary AI Was Missing
The bottleneck isn't AI capability - it's that developers lack design vocabulary. Impeccable bridges the gap, and the Tessl benchmarks prove it: 1.59x improvement over baseline.
Read more →Your AI Tools Are the Attack Surface
Prompt injection through pull requests, GitHub Issues, and CI/CD pipelines is turning AI coding assistants into weapons against the developers who use them. The 2026 attack surface nobody's talking about.
Read more →The Enterprise Tax
Anthropic is locking AI capability behind enterprise tiers while competitors only gate compliance. Claude Code's individual users are funding the R&D for features they'll never access.
Read more →From Ralph Wiggum to /loop: The Absorption Continues
Claude Code shipped /loop - cron-based scheduled tasks. It's not Ralph Wiggum. It's what happens when the platform asks 'what's the simplest version of this pattern?'
Read more →GPT-5.4 and the Wall Nobody's Talking About
OpenAI launched its most capable model during the biggest credibility crisis in AI history. The technical gains are real. The trust deficit is bigger.
Read more →The 10x AI Developer is a Myth
Independent studies consistently show AI coding tools deliver modest gains at best. The real story is worse: developers are thinking less, learning less, and producing more debt.
Read more →Your AGENTS.md is a Liability
Frontier models top out at 68% compliance with 500 instructions. Every rule you add makes every other rule less likely to be followed. The research explains why.
Read more →March 2026 Tooling Roundup: Profiles, Proxies, and Free 744B Models
Updates across tether-cli, claude-launcher, and claude-tools - plus why NVIDIA NIM giving away GLM-5 at 40 RPM changes the math on local-vs-cloud.
Read more →Always Have an Agent Running
Mitchell Hashimoto keeps an agent working at all times. Not coding - just doing something. His workflow reveals what changes when you treat AI as a background process instead of a pair programmer.
Read more →Vinext and the $1,100 Rewrite
Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js in a week with one engineer and 800 Claude sessions. The real story isn't the speed - it's what happens when test suites become machine-readable specs.
Read more →One Year of Claude Code
The tool was rewritten five times. The discipline to use it wasn't rewritten once. A year of daily AI-assisted development, what it changed, and what it didn't.
Read more →The Polyglot Stack: Why Developers Stopped Picking One AI
Gemini 3.1 Pro's animated SVGs are impressive. But the bigger story is what they reveal: developers now route tasks to specialized models the way they once chose frameworks.
Read more →The Week AI Went Full Throttle
Five major releases in 72 hours. An acqui-hire war that closed in days. $2 trillion wiped off software stocks. The pace itself is now the story.
Read more →The Silicon Race
OpenAI just shipped their first model on non-Nvidia hardware. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark runs on Cerebras wafer-scale silicon at 1,000 tokens per second. The AI coding war is now a chip war.
Read more →The Quiet Features That Shipped With Opus 4.6
Auto memory, fast mode, and agent team refinements all shipped in the same week as Opus 4.6. They tell you more about where Claude Code is heading than the headline model.
Read more →Agents Can't Do Design Systems
AI agents excel at code generation but struggle with visual consistency. Pencil.dev shows a better pattern: give agents tools, keep humans in the design loop.
Read more →GPT-5.3-Codex: The Counter-Punch
GPT-5.3-Codex is a genuinely strong model that deserved its own headline. Instead, Sam Altman's 400-word Super Bowl rant stole launch day from his own product.
Read more →Opus 4.6: The Vibe Working Inflection
Anthropic's latest model didn't just improve benchmarks. It crashed software stocks, found 500 zero-days, and coined a term that tells you where this is heading.
Read more →Playground: When Text Prompting Isn't Enough
Claude Code's playground plugin generates interactive HTML explorers for visual configuration. Six modes for design, data, concepts, code review, architecture, and document review. The copy-prompt-back loop as a new interaction pattern.
Read more →10 Tips from Inside the Claude Code Team
Boris Cherny followed up his personal workflow with tips from across the team. Same tool, different people, different approaches. The patterns worth stealing.
Read more →The Framework Trap
100k+ GitHub stars across frameworks that reimport waterfall, simulate org charts, and fight how LLMs actually work. The Claude Code ecosystem is speed-running a mistake every dev paradigm makes.
Read more →The Speedrun That Broke Open Source
AI tools that democratize code creation are DDoSing the review layer. Creation now runs at machine speed. Review remains human speed. The asymmetry is crushing maintainers.
Read more →From Beads to Tasks: Anthropic Productizes Agent Memory
Anthropic credits Steve Yegge's Beads as inspiration for Claude Code's new task system. The pattern-to-product cycle continues.
Read more →Running Claude Code Fully Local with Ollama
For compliance, privacy, or just freedom from cloud dependencies - here's how to run Claude Code with local models via Ollama. No API calls leaving your machine.
Read more →GasTown and the Two Kinds of Multi-Agent
I wrote that 19-agent scaffolding is a trap. Then Yegge shipped Gas Town with 20-30 Claude Code instances. Are these the same thing?
Read more →The Context Wars: Why Your Browser Tools Are Bleeding Tokens
Playwright MCP's 26 tools are killing your context window. Vercel's agent-browser shows a better way: fewer tools, smarter snapshots, 93% less overhead.
Read more →Flux: A Kanban Board That Speaks MCP
Task management designed for AI coding agents. CLI-first, git-native sync, and Model Context Protocol integration.
Read more →Anthropic's Walled Garden: The Claude Code Crackdown
Anthropic blocked third-party tools from using Claude subscriptions overnight. OpenCode, xAI, and power users caught in the crossfire. The era of subscription arbitrage is over.
Read more →The Junior Dev Pipeline Problem
Stanford data confirms experienced devs are safe. But if AI replaces the on-ramp, where do future seniors come from?
Read more →Claude Code 2.1: The Pain Points? Fixed.
Skills controllability, hooks limitations, plan mode friction - 2.1 addresses the documented pain points. Here's what changed and what's still missing.
Read more →Claude Code Hooks: Guardrails That Actually Work
Real footgun stories and the deterministic hooks that would've prevented them. From $30k API key leaks to nuked home directories.
Read more →The 19-Agent Trap
Complex AI scaffolding tools appeal to people who understand traditional SDLC. But AI collapses the phases that made those models useful.
Read more →How the Creator of Claude Code Uses Claude Code
Boris Cherny shared his workflow for the tool he built. The setup is surprisingly vanilla. The philosophy is worth studying.
Read more →Guardrails by Default: Why AI Coding's Next Evolution Isn't Smarter Models
Factory AI's Luke predicts the future isn't more powerful models - it's AI that enforces software engineering best practices by default. Here's why that matters more than you think.
Read more →Claude Code's Hidden MCP Flag: 32k Tokens Back
ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_MCP_CLI eliminates MCP tool schema overhead entirely. Undocumented, untested in the wild, but it works. Here's what I found.
Read more →The Alien Tool With No Manual
Andrej Karpathy built the neural networks inside coding assistants. He taught deep learning to a generation. He feels dramatically behind. If the experts are lost, what does that tell us?
Read more →The $0 SaaS Stack: Ship Fast, Pay Later
Convex, Vite, Clerk, shadcn, Cloudflare, Resend. A modern stack where every component has a generous free tier, agents do the heavy lifting, and you don't touch infrastructure until you have paying customers.
Read more →claude-launcher: Model Freedom for Claude Code
A CLI wrapper that lets you swap Claude Code's backend between Anthropic and OpenRouter with a single command. Pick any model, configure role-specific models, and switch between them instantly.
Read more →The Open Source Agentic Moment
Two major open source coding models dropped in 48 hours. Both target Claude Code compatibility. Both MIT licensed. The economics of agentic AI just changed.
Read more →Claude in Chrome: Close the Dev Loop Without Leaving Your Terminal
Claude Code can now control your actual Chrome browser. Not a headless session, not a fresh login - your Chrome, with your cookies and sessions. Build, test, and debug without context switching.
Read more →Claude Code: The Details That Compound
Claude Code is evolving on two fronts: expanding scope and polishing ergonomics. The combination makes it feel less like a CLI tool and more like a complete dev environment.
Read more →Tether: Encrypted Dotfile Sync for Multi-Machine Developers
Stop manually copying .zshrc between machines. Tether syncs dotfiles and global packages with end-to-end encryption.
Read more →The Terminal Renaissance
The real revolution isn't AI in your terminal. It's moving at the speed of thought from a single interface. When friction exists, build a CLI.
Read more →Visual Verification: Making Agents Prove Their Work
Screenshots as source of truth, reference comparison to catch agent lies, and video capture for temporal bugs. How multimodal validation changes coding agent workflows.
Read more →Beads: Memory for Your Coding Agents
Steve Yegge's open-source framework gives coding agents session memory and task management. Four weeks old, hundreds of contributors, and already changing workflows.
Read more →GPT-5.2: The Delegation Era Begins
OpenAI's latest model isn't about better prompting - it's about better delegation. What that means for 2026, and how it compares to Opus 4.5.
Read more →claude-tools: A Plugin Marketplace for Claude Code
Six plugins that extend Claude Code with specialized external tools: Gemini for visual analysis, Codex for architecture thinking, Headless for browser automation, Mobile for native app testing, DNS for multi-provider management, and Miro for board reading.
Read more →Divers and CNC Machines: Yegge and Kim on What's Coming
Steve Yegge and Gene Kim explain why Claude Code 'ain't it' yet, why senior engineers are resisting, and what next year's tools will actually look like.
Read more →Claude Code Gets Path-Specific Rules (Cursor Had This First)
Claude Code 2.0.64 adds .claude/rules/ with path matching. It's a welcome addition, but Cursor's had .cursor/rules/ for months. Here's the comparison.
Read more →Denial, Then Admission: Why LLM Quality Drops Are Real
Anthropic denied issues for weeks, then published a postmortem admitting three bugs degraded 16% of Claude requests. The pattern keeps repeating.
Read more →The External Scaffolding Era Is Ending
BMAD, Spec-Kit, Cline - frameworks that compensated for tool limitations. Plan Mode, Cursor 2.0, and Antigravity absorb the patterns natively.
Read more →Anthropic Bought Bun
Anthropic's first acquisition ever. A $183B AI company just bet their fastest-growing product on a JavaScript runtime. Claude Code hit $1B in 6 months - built on Bun.
Read more →Plan Mode Is Now Mandatory. Auto-Compact Should Be Enabled.
Opus 4.5 shipped Plan Mode as a core workflow. The workarounds are obsolete. And the case for auto-compact finally tips in favor of enabling it.
Read more →Ralph Wiggum: Autonomous Loops for Claude Code
The official Claude Code plugin that lets agents work autonomously for hours. When to use it, when not to, and the philosophy behind letting AI fail repeatedly until it succeeds.
Read more →Claude Code Plugins: Breaking the AI Slop Aesthetic
277,000 installs later, Claude Code's plugin system is becoming the app store for AI development. The frontend-design skill was just the opening move.
Read more →AI-Generated UI Mockups in Your Coding Workflow
Design systems from mockup to code in a single Claude Code session. Use Gemini 3 Pro to generate UI concepts, then implement them directly.
Read more →Opus 4.5 and Tool Search: The Native Fix for MCP Context Bloat
Claude's new model ships with defer_loading for tools. The MCP isolation patterns I built are now (mostly) obsolete.
Read more →From Single Model to Specialized Tooling: Adding React Grab to the Stack
My AI workflow evolved from 'Claude does everything' to specialized tools for each task. React Grab fills the UI extraction gap I didn't know I had.
Read more →The SDLC Is Collapsing Too
The PM/Eng split dissolved into product engineering. Now the traditional software development lifecycle is following suit as coding agents handle multi-hour tasks across planning, building, testing, and deployment.
Read more →The Quiet Advantage: Introverts in Tech
How modern tools transformed my experience as an introverted engineer and tech leader
Read more →Hybrid AI Workflows: Spawning Gemini from Claude Code
Claude Code for development, Gemini 3 Pro for visual analysis, research, and deep thinking. A slash command that routes tasks to the right model.
Read more →Gemini 3: The First Unambiguous #1 in Months
Google's Gemini 3 just broke every benchmark that matters. What that means for the 'AI has hit a wall' narrative, and where it actually helps.
Read more →C# 14 and .NET 10: Less Boilerplate, More Clarity
The latest C# release continues its quiet war on ceremony with field-backed properties, extension members, and smarter spans. Here's what matters and what doesn't.
Read more →Product Engineering: The New Superpower
How AI and spec-driven development are fusing product management with engineering, creating a new hybrid role that's transforming how small teams ship software.
Read more →C# Scripts: The Python Killer You Already Know
.NET 10's shebang support and file-based apps turn C# into a scripting language. No more context-switching to Python for quick scripts.
Read more →Use Bun
I fought to move teams from npm to pnpm. I was all in. Then a friend said 'lol use bun' and I converted every project within days. Here's why I'll never go back.
Read more →Skills Auto-Activation via Hooks (Does It Solve the Problem?)
Hooks-based skill activation solves context selection (which guidelines? which tools?) but not workflow orchestration. Both patterns have their place.
Read more →Expressing MCP Tools as Code APIs (96% Less Context)
From Chrome DevTools experiment to universal MCP wrapper: progressive discovery works with any server, Skills integration, and smart deduplication
Read more →Claude Skills: The Controllability Problem
Skills are auto-invoked by Claude's judgment. For engineering workflows that need predictability, slash commands give you explicit control.
Read more →The Hiring Mismatch: When 20 Years of Experience Isn't Enough
Why coding interviews optimized for 2010 fail to identify great engineers in 2025, and why orgs can't adapt fast enough.
Read more →When Claude Needs a Second Opinion: Strategic Thinking with Codex
Claude Code loves to jump straight into implementation. Sometimes you need a model that thinks first. Here's how I use Codex for systems thinking and architecture decisions.
Read more →Isolating MCP Context in Claude Code with Slash Commands
How to use slash commands to keep specialized MCP tools isolated from your main conversation context.
Read more →Few-Shot Learning for Document Parsing: Training AI on Human Corrections
How I built a self-improving document parser that learns from corrections without fine-tuning. The pragmatic alternative to model training.
Read more →When Not to Use AI: Two Approaches to Building AI-Powered Products
Real-time AI generation vs curated libraries: lessons from building the same product twice with radically different architectures.
Read more →Building Trivista: What AI Coding Actually Solves (and What It Doesn't)
Building a multiplayer trivia app solo with AI coding tools. Here's what worked, what didn't, and the trade-offs no one talks about.
Read more →Stop Speedrunning Claude Code (Master the Core Loop First)
MCPs, subagents, and automation are tempting. But the developers getting the most from Claude Code aren't rushing to advanced features - they're mastering the fundamentals.
Read more →Flutter Auto-Reload for Terminal Workflows
Building automatic hot reload for Flutter without an IDE using file watchers and Unix signals - for terminal-based development and AI coding tools.
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