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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
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
Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around ChangesetsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A proposal to organize GitHub pull requests around explicit changesets. Mitchell Hashimoto examines how mutable branches can disrupt reviews and describes a workflow that would preserve clearer review context.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written