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Meta Built a 50-Agent AI Swarm That Mapped 4,100 Files
Meta's AI agents wrote broken code because undocumented conventions lived only in engineers' heads
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
170 entries · latest 2026-09-11
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Shopify April 2026 Breaking Changes: What Developers Must Fix
Shopify now requires expiring offline access tokens for all new public apps as of April 1
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GitHub Got Hit With 475 Malicious PRs in 26 Hours
Attacker opened 475+ malicious PRs across GitHub in 26 hours using AI-generated payloads
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Gemma 4: Google Open Models Just Made Agentic AI Free
Gemma 4 ships 4 model sizes under Apache 2.0 with native function-calling built in
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Developer Jobs Are Growing, Not Dying: What the Data Actually Shows
Software engineer job listings on Indeed are up 11% year over year, outpacing overall job growth
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Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: MCP and A2A Built In
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 shipped April 3 with stable APIs for .NET and Python
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Anthropic's Advisor Strategy: Opus Intelligence at Sonnet Prices
Anthropic's Advisor Strategy lets Sonnet or Haiku consult Opus mid-task, keeping near-Opus quality at executor-level pricing
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Claude Managed Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents at Scale
Managed Agents is Anthropic's new hosted agent infrastructure, now in public beta
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How I Built a Viral Web Game That Got 156K Views
Center This Div hit 156K views in 48 hours from one Reddit post. The full breakdown: tech stack,…
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The Best AI Coding Tools for Solo Developers in 2026
I shipped 6 products this year with AI coding tools. Here is what works, what costs what, and…
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How to Make Your Website Visible to AI Search
Most websites are invisible to AI search engines. Here is how to fix that with llms.txt, Schema.org markup,…
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How I Built an Anti-Cheat System for a CSS Game
Three versions of anti-cheat for a CSS centering game with 3,000+ attempts. HMAC tokens, pattern analysis, and HTTP…