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A new AIQ Rank Leaderboard ranks 57 users by their AI proficiency scores, with engineers dominating the top spots. User @charlie leads the board with a score of 946 out of 1000, followed by @jtsternberg at 942 and @sienn…
Datadog Director of Engineering Diamond Bishop outlined five key lessons for building production-ready AI agents at the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, based on the company's experience deploying its first 100 agents …
Simon Willison released a new Markdown rendering tool that treats fenced code SVG blocks as rendered images while also offering a code view tab. The tool accepts pasted Markdown or URLs to CORS-enabled Markdown files and…
A developer has achieved a 3.16x productivity multiplier by scaling out concurrent AI-assisted coding tasks rather than chasing the elusive 10x developer. The engineer found that focusing on structural constraints like T…
MacOS's built-in malware blocker, Xprotect, flagged the ChatGPT desktop app as malware and moved it to the Trash after OpenAI replaced the app's notarization certificate following a security issue involving a third-party…
TD Bank announced on its May 28 earnings call that agentic AI reduced mortgage pre-adjudication cycle times from roughly 15 hours to 3 minutes. The bank also reported that more than 40,000 employees use internal Copilot …
AWS announced the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub, a tool designed to help Site Reliability Engineers and development teams standardize resilience policies, identify failure modes, and demonstrate compliance across…
A senior engineer has identified a phenomenon called "Cognitive Debt," where teams lose deep understanding of their own systems as AI generates increasing amounts of production code. The engineer observed that even brill…
An issue with billing and subscription management on claude.ai and the Anthropic Console caused errors for users viewing subscription details, payment methods, or changing plans from 18:27 UTC to 19:05 UTC on May 28. Cha…
Starbucks has quietly scrapped its AI-powered inventory management system after only nine months, following reports that the tool frequently miscounted or mislabeled items and slowed down baristas. The coffee giant confi…
Joe Lonsdale, founder of 8VC and co-founder of Palantir, said artificial intelligence is enabling startup founders to achieve $100 million in revenue at an unprecedented pace, urging experienced investors to consider lau…
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 4.6 in February 2026, five months after Sonnet 4.5, with the same API pricing of $3 input and $15 output per million tokens. Sonnet 4.6 achieved an 80.2% SWE-bench Verified score, up from …
A developer built AgentGuard, a background daemon that monitors file changes made by AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, after experiencing approval fatigue that led to unauthorized file modifications. The tool …
A small auditing system spent three cycles debugging a single component, `external_pattern_hunter`, which had been failing due to a GitHub API quota issue. The first fix, which switched the preflight check from the `code…
GitHub reported a disruption affecting its Copilot Cloud Agent and Copilot Code Review services. Users can subscribe to email or SMS notifications for updates on the incident. The company will send alerts when the incide…
The University of Central Oklahoma's Forensic Science Institute is using Google's NotebookLM artificial intelligence tool to reduce the time required to analyze complex criminal case documents and construct timelines fro…
A company redesigned its software development lifecycle to delegate 40% of tickets to AI agents, moving tasks from planning to production with human gates. The system uses context lakes, guardrails, and visibility to let…
Marksmith, a VS Code extension for Markdown editing, has been updated to version 0.3.0 with features tailored for AI workflows. The update adds a heuristic token estimator for GPT, Claude, and Gemini, a Markdown minifier…
Agentic coding AI has transformed software development, but a senior frontend engineer with over a decade of experience argues the industry is awash in "software slop" as non-developers ship products that aren't producti…
An agent's effective intelligence is bounded by how fast it can verify its hypotheses, according to a developer who observed the same AI model produce markedly different work across two codebases. The project with an eig…