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 →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 →Three Ways to Build Deep Research with Claude
From 20 lines of shell to production apps. Anthropic renamed Claude Code SDK to Agent SDK because deep research is now a first-class use case.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Microsoft Is Letting GitHub Die
Ghostty left after 18 years. Zig, cURL, and Godot are reducing reliance. 48 major outages in a year, no CEO since August, reporting into the Core AI team. Centralising the world's code was a bet on stewardship. The steward stopped showing up.
Read more →Opus 4.8: The Honest Model Is the Expensive Model
Opus 4.8's headline feature isn't a benchmark. It's that the model is 4x less likely to let a flaw in its own code pass unflagged. Self-correction, flagged uncertainty, and effort dials all cost tokens. Anthropic shipped a model that pays for confidence by the token, weeks before it starts billing automation by the token.
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 →