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A developer shares techniques for improving their use of Claude Code, an AI coding tool, in a new article on Towards AI.

XAI trained its Grok V9 model on private coding data from Cursor, not just public GitHub repositories, using 1.5 trillion parameters to understand how developers actually code.

A developer released an open-source CLI tool called whoburnedmore that aggregates token usage and cost estimates from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor into a single dashboard, and includes a public lea…

A product manager at a Series A startup is requesting to ship code to customer-facing applications using AI coding agents, despite lacking an engineering background. The team's engineers are uncertain about the practice …

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 defeated Kimi K2.7 Code 37-31 in a head-to-head coding benchmark, demonstrating superior precision and judgment across most tasks. The only tie occurred on a rigid data transformation task, hi…

OpenCode, an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent, surpassed Claude Code with 172,000 GitHub stars, but a comparison test showed it is 78% slower than its rival.

A developer on Hacker News reports losing their ability to maintain a flow state while coding with slow AI agents like Claude, a problem they never faced before using agentic coding tools. The user is asking the communit…

The European Commission published a voluntary Code of Practice outlining steps for providers and deployers of generative AI to comply with the AI Act's transparency obligations, which take effect on 2 August 2026. The Co…

Users of Claude Code Desktop cannot select Fable from the model picker, as the option is currently unavailable. The issue affects those who rely on Fable for AI-powered code generation within the desktop application. Cla…

A blog post outlines three methods for reducing token usage when coding with AI agents, including using a script to suppress verbose command output, providing only class and function names instead of full code, and commu…

Y Combinator launched Paxel, a free tool that analyzes local AI-coding sessions from Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor to create founder building profiles, the accelerator announced Friday on X. The tool has already pro…

A developer has published a minimal agent loop built on the Anthropic SDK, demonstrating that the core logic for a custom AI agent fits in roughly 40 lines of code. The implementation reveals that most agent frameworks a…

A Hacker News user asked the community to share the most creative or amusing "thinking word" they have observed from the AI coding tool Claude Code. The user offered their own example, "Photosynthesizing," as a humorous …

A developer created Klavex, a CLI tool that eliminates plaintext `.env` files by storing secrets in an encrypted vault and injecting them only into child processes. The tool prevents coding agents like Cursor and Claude …

Google is paying select Android app developers for access to their Play Store code, according to a 404 Media report based on an email sent to a developer with millions of downloads. The program, described as a "confident…

Cognition launched Devin Desktop on Tuesday, transforming its Windsurf IDE into an "Agent Command Center" that lets developers manage local and cloud coding agents from a single editor. The new app defaults to a Kanban-s…

Factory AI launched Factory Router, a model selection system that automatically chooses the most cost-effective large language model for each coding task to reduce token spending without sacrificing performance. The feat…

A Hacker News user posed a comparative question about the pricing and quality of Amp versus Claude Code. The post asks whether Amp is more or less expensive than Claude Code and which tool is superior. The query seeks di…

A new AI agent token cost calculator estimates monthly spending and waste for coding loops like Codex and Claude Code, allowing developers to input token counts, run frequency, and provider rates. The tool includes a was…

A security researcher reproduced a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Claude Code 2.1.118, which was disclosed by researcher Joernchen. The bug has since been fixed, but the underlying parsing anti-pattern that…