Val Town, a platform for hosting internal tools and websites, published a newsletter summarizing 10 blog posts from the past few months, including updates on OAuth connectors, AI answer engine optimiz…
Val Town released a self-building Slackbot powered by Claude and the Vercel AI SDK, enabling the coding agent Townie to read, write, run, and query internal tools via the Val Town MCP in 9 lines of co…
The inaugural Santa Cruz PyTorch Meetup, organized by Red Hat's Steve and UCSC OSPO's Stephanie Lieggi, drew 45 local engineers, students, and leaders for GPU/CUDA talks and lightning presentations on…
Dylan Reed launched VellumProof on August 3 to give novelists a dated record of manuscript development, turning his fear of being falsely accused of using AI into a version-control product for writers…
Frameworks like LangChain or CrewAI add abstraction but not magic, according to a developer who built a sarcastic senior engineer agent called 'Steve' in Node.js using a simple for loop to prevent inf…
A developer built an AI agent in about 80 lines of code, challenging the notion that frameworks like LangChain or CrewAI are necessary. The agent, named Steve, reviews local Git diffs using the Gemini…
The FBI reported roughly 59,000 romance scam victims in 2024, with generative AI making scams more convincing through deepfake videos and voice clones, according to The Women's Tech & Telecom Partners…
Steve released Architecture A2, a new standard neural network recipe for modeling guitar and bass amps, on Neural Amp Modeler. The update enables users to train A2 models through TONE3000 or open-sour…