Citizen Devs: Everyone is an engineer now
Massdriver's blog post argues that citizen developers—employees outside IT who build software—have existed since Lotus 1-2-3 and are now more prevalent than ever, with Gartner finding in 2021 that 41%…
Massdriver's blog post argues that citizen developers—employees outside IT who build software—have existed since Lotus 1-2-3 and are now more prevalent than ever, with Gartner finding in 2021 that 41%…
A developer used Anthropic's Claude Code to reverse-engineer and write a macOS DriverKit driver for the Drobo 5D, rescuing data from the device after the original kext stopped working. The driver, whi…
Developer built Chngd, a hosted changelog tool that uses Claude Code to draft customer-facing changelog entries from GitHub commits and PRs. The tool filters internal-only commits before sending them …
Huzzah, an open-source experiment by developer Daniel Vaughn, lets developers write pseudocode in a side panel that an LLM translates into TypeScript/JavaScript source files on save, keeping the inten…
A developer reflects on the accelerating pace of AI-driven change in the tech industry, noting that the definition of competence is shifting faster than professionals can adapt. The post highlights gr…
Cumora's open-source project presents a team chat application where AI agents operate as first-class teammates, sharing direct messages, group chats, a Kanban board, and a calendar. The architecture e…
Anthropic launched Claude Academy on August 20, a free public catalog of courses and tutorials that turns its internal employee training into product onboarding for Claude.ai, the Cowork agent, Claude…
Anthropic is preparing to publicly file IPO paperwork as early as the end of this month, aiming to match or surpass SpaceX's record-setting $75 billion June IPO, according to Bloomberg. The AI startup…
Open-source and commercial 'unslop' tools that rewrite AI-generated text to sound human are emerging as a new software category, with at least three MIT-licensed projects on GitHub, a pip install unsl…
Anthropic is hiring a Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Commercial, a first-line leadership role reporting to the Head of Applied AI, Commercial, with a salary of $315k–380k/yr, based in San Francis…
AI coding agents have made building software cheap, but AdaL's developers found that cheap implementation increases the risk of building the wrong thing. After building a benchmark first, they discove…
Rabih Jabr, a developer, reports that AI coding agents like Claude Code can make locally correct decisions with non-local consequences, such as force-pushing to main, because they cannot see the full …
Ollama v0.32.0, released July 11, changed the bare `ollama` command from printing help text to launching a local coding agent, pivoting the project from model runner to agent runtime. The update intro…
A single governed context layer, such as Atlan's Nexset, can resolve discrepancies in agent answers by providing one shared definition, as illustrated by three different AI coding assistants returning…
X is the definitive platform for AI discourse, and avoiding it due to hatred of Elon Musk carries career consequences, according to an AI trainer who leads team transformations. Even Meta CEO Mark Zuc…
Claude Code, the agentic coding interface, can be routed to alternative models such as Kimi K3, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.7 Flash using environment variables or the Opper CLI. Opper, an EU-hosted gateway,…
Pacer, a free open-source macOS app by developer Eric Andrechek, tracks Claude Code token usage, costs, and rate limits in real time from the menu bar, with features including pace charts, per-project…
A developer's integration with Claude Code and markitdown falsely reported a PDF as empty because exit codes only indicate process completion, not content yield, and byte thresholds miss near-misses l…
Salesforce Inc. introduced Slack Code, a new feature that brings coding agents into Slack channels so entire teams can collaborate on code in an open, visible space. The feature supports agents such a…
Anthropic's Claude Code concise output mode reduces token usage by approximately 40%, cutting a typical 5-file refactor from 8-12k output tokens to 4-6k, according to a developer's report. The mode co…