AI has lowered the barrier to building. Here’s what that means for engineers.
For most of software’s history, building meant writing code. Not just understanding it, but producing it. The entry point was steep by design: fluency in at least one language, working knowledge of...
View ArticleEmployees are vibe-coding their own apps. Cloudflare open-sources Void to...
Many companies are keen to let employees build their own applications using AI, even those with little or no programming experience. Just yesterday, Gergely Orosz of The Pragmatic Engineer highlighted...
View ArticleRunning local AI models on Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra: What we found
Microsoft is positioning the new Surface Laptop Ultra as an alternative to Apple’s MacBook Pros for creatives and developers — and especially AI developers. Built on Nvidia’s N1X-based RTX Spark...
View ArticleHackers hijacked 1,900 GitHub accounts. Then they went after 30,000 repos.
Hackers accessed roughly 1,900 GitHub accounts, then used them to slip credential-stealing workflows into more than 30,000 repositories. The malicious GitHub Actions jobs targeted CI/CD secrets, cloud...
View ArticleVercel adds always-on workers to run more of your backend
Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Daemons, a new service for continuously...
View ArticleMeta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models
Meta on Thursday launched Muse Spark Open, a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues is the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” The new model is available...
View ArticleNvidia squeezed a 74B agent model into 24GB so it can run on your laptop
Nvidia on Thursday announced a few new additions to its Nemotron family: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B vision-language model for enterprise agents and two small Bolt models (Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B...
View Article“Everybody with a $20 account is now a researcher”: How Akrites is tackling...
AI is making it easier than ever to find potential security vulnerabilities in open source software. But finding something that looks like a vulnerability isn’t quite the same as finding a genuine...
View Article“Take work away from frontier LLMs”: Subquadratic’s decision model claims 12x...
Jev has a lot to answer for. Ever since AI startup TypeSafe unveiled the decision model in mid-September, the industry has been awash with alternatives, with OpenAI, Perplexity, Cloudflare, Amazon...
View ArticleGemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit
On Tuesday, Google made Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s new flagship model, available to developers on the paid tier of the Gemini API through Google AI Studio, as well as in several of the company’s...
View ArticleWorkday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents
Workday is opening up its platform and allowing developers to build their own HR and finance agents in Claude Code, Cursor, and other tools, as long as those agents follow the same rules as the people...
View ArticleWorkday is using TypeSafe’s Jev to build user interfaces on the fly
Workday on Tuesday made Sana, its AI assistant, the new home screen for its HR, finance, and IT software. If you’re not an HR pro, that may not be all that exciting for you, but the way the team built...
View ArticleThe X Subscription bundles Cursor with Grok and X Premium. But Claude now...
Elon Musk’s mission to unify his sprawling tech empire continues apace, with the news that X, Grok, and Cursor are being bundled together as a single plan dubbed The X Subscription. Taking to X late...
View Article“A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on...
OpenCode 2.0 is getting a formal unpacking today, some three months after its public beta launch. The sizable architectural upgrade introduces a shared background service connecting its terminal, web...
View ArticleCoding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are...
Build-or-buy is usually framed as an engineering trade-off, where developer time is weighed against integration and migration overhead, and control against the maintenance burden of a bespoke build....
View ArticleClaude Code found my app’s shared contract in two MCP calls. Then the records...
Every Claude Code user has watched a new session start from zero. You open it on a system you built last week, ask for a small feature, and the agent begins by rediscovering your own architecture:...
View ArticleClaude found 29,000 possible bugs in open source. Only 516 have been fixed.
Anthropic’s new OSS Scanner, launched last week as part of its broader Cyber Mission, exposes a problem inside the company’s security research operation. Claude is finding potential vulnerabilities...
View ArticleCloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless...
Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version of Cloudflare’s serverless computing platform. The...
View Article“Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on...
The AI industry has enthusiastically embraced the language of open source, even as some of its most prominent “open” models offer developers only a fraction of what that term has traditionally...
View ArticleClaude can now build your dashboards
A month after OpenAI gave ChatGPT Work a data agent that builds dashboards, Anthropic on Thursday shipped its own version. Claude Dashboards, now in beta, lets users build live dashboards to see the...
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