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Angel Espinoza on why a per-project CLAUDE.md (plain rules for the AI assistant) often beats repeating context every session—write the rules down once, not every time.
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Ownership Debt: The Hidden Risk of AI-Generated Code
Maish Saidel-Keesing names ‘ownership debt’: shipping AI-written code you never truly authored, then gambling on the model when it breaks—why responsibility, not just velocity, is the missing metric.
10 min · 2,361 words
Graft, Metatron, and the two kinds of context coding agents need
Pavel Kerbel contrasts Graft’s recoverable WHAT/WHERE code maps with Metatron’s reviewed WHY/WHY NOT engineering memory, arguing stronger models still need both layers—and proposing a factorial eval to prove it.
9 min · 2,075 words
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated cost through multi-model orchestration.
7 min · 1,635 words
Architectural visualization with Astra
I started with a simple brief for a house: minimalist but detailed furniture, a garden, and a cinematic atmosphere. I asked Astra in Codex to turn that brief into an editable 3D scene in Blender.
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How I Test MCP Tools and MCP Apps
An MCP tool can pass normal tests and still fail when an agent tries to use it. The implementation may be correct, but the model may choose the wrong tool. It may send the wrong arguments. The tool description may be too vague.
8 min · 1,915 words
Launching Vespper DOCX MCP: 3× faster, 2× cheaper, more accurate
Vespper launches a DOCX MCP fine-tuned for Word editing, claiming 3× faster, 2× cheaper, and more accurate agent document edits than the closest alternative on their internal benchmark.
13 min · 2,954 words
We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages
Jimmy Miller argues AI-era coding makes language macros newly practical, introduces Sweetener for TypeScript, and asks why we still fear customizable programming languages.
2 min · 535 words
Building a product in the age of AI
Joao Carvalho describes building Open Poker after hours with coding agents: owning product direction, splitting development and production agents, a three-hour end-to-end rehearsal, and controls that survive model churn.
8 min · 1,910 words
AI didn't write our SDK. It changed how we built it.
AI was involved at every stage of building Stripe's extensibility SDK, but the story isn't that it wrote code faster. Here's how prototypes, agent-drafted specs, and persistent guidance got ideas into reviewable shape sooner.
8 min · 1,904 words
How I managed multi-agent worktrees in a large Rust codebase
Manuel Tumiati walks through six failure modes of running many AI agents across git worktrees in a large Rust repo—shared targets, locks, orphaned artifacts—and the fixes that made it workable.
18 min · 4,149 words
Anthropic’s guide to prompting Claude Opus 5.5: how the model behaves, patterns that work for complex agentic and coding tasks, and practical prompt-engineering advice for builders.
17 min · 3,906 words
Benoît Devilliers hardens a Hermes assistant for client data: Tailscale-only VPS, least-privilege bot accounts, spending caps, per-user agents, and Infisical Agent Vault so credentials never sit in the model context.
5 min · 1,118 words
Reviewing code in the agent era
Reviewing code in the agent era Last week we launched Diffs, a new way to review PRs directly inside Linear. Since then we’ve had a lot of questions about it, so we wanted to share more about why we built the feature and how we use it ourselves today. Like a lot of people who build software, I f...
4 min · 870 words
Magic Switch: Share a Magic Keyboard & Trackpad Between Two Macs (Free)
Joshua Rogers explains how he built Magic Switch, a free open-source macOS app that shares Apple Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse between Macs without Apple ID or USB re-pairing.
11 min · 2,633 words
Giving Your Home AI Agent Real Tools: MCP Servers on a Mac mini M6
A walkthrough of the MCP servers James M runs on a Mac mini M6—filesystem, email, calendar, notes, home automation—and the permission choices that keep an always-on home agent from becoming a liability.
8 min · 1,743 words
Mozilla.ai introduces cq, a shared commons where AI coding agents can query past learnings and contribute new knowledge—Stack Overflow-style shared memory for agent workflows.
6 min · 1,330 words
Software is still about thinking
Cursor’s head of design argues AI coding creates an illusion of speed without structure: unclear systems thinking now produces slop at scale, while clear architecture compounds into 100x leverage.
2 min · 468 words
Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agentsUnattended coding agents that produce more than a thousand merged PRs a week at Stripe.
Stripe’s Minions are fully unattended coding agents that one-shot tasks end-to-end. Humans review the PRs; the agents write the code—here’s how the harness works.
7 min · 1,510 words
Notes on switching to Helix from vimOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A Vim user's account of trying Helix, with attention to built-in language-server support, contextual search, keyboard help, and multiple cursors. The post describes the everyday tradeoffs of changing editors.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written