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A developer ran the same 47 buying questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode on the same day and classified every citation across the resulting 141 answers, finding Perplexity averaged 16.7 citations per a…
Wenker Router, an open-source, self-hosted AI gateway from WENKER-AI, centralizes access to more than 181 LLM providers and models behind a single local entry point. The project, released under the MIT license, is instal…
A technical comparison examines the tradeoffs between Ollama and llama.cpp for local LLM inference, framing the choice as one between a managed model service and a toolkit operated directly. The guide argues Ollama suits…
A developer built an open-source autonomous Discord AI companion in Python that uses probabilistic skipping via discord.ext.tasks.loop to let an LLM spontaneously post messages without spamming servers. The bot employs a…
Developer mikepapadim opened pull request #1083 against the TornadoVM project, adding a CUDA Tile (cuTile) execution path to the CUDA backend as a TileContext API across 30 commits. The change introduces PartitionView.at…
A developer known as zigster64 published atari.zig, a repository that enables an LLVM m68k backend to produce a bare-bones Zig toolchain on macOS, and used DeepSeek tokens to have an LLM generate a Space Invaders clone a…
A developer released ai-sdk-threads, an npm package that persists AI SDK chat threads and messages directly into an existing Postgres or SQLite database via Drizzle, replacing the copy-and-maintain persistence pattern us…
A developer demonstrated how to build a custom agent in about five minutes using Microsoft's M365 Agent Builder, requiring an M365 Copilot license but no per-use cost. The walkthrough covers selecting a genuine use case,…
A developer known as Kaiji outlined six rules for writing /goal text that lets an AI coding agent run unattended overnight, sharing the approach in a post tagged with AI, Codex, programming, and productivity. The writeup…
A developer is building API Hero, an API client designed to go beyond single HTTP requests by modeling executable API workflows. The tool links collections, variables, authentication, and dependencies so that requests su…
An agent harness is the runtime layer around a model — comprising a tool registry, model, context management, guardrails, an agent loop and a verify step — that makes an agent reliable, according to a technical explainer…
A developer's experiment across eighteen coding-agent sessions found that compaction can cause models to answer from a stale summary rather than re-reading source files, with seven of sixteen compacted sessions reporting…
Rage4J, a Java library for evaluating LLM applications, is now available at version 1.0.4 through Maven, according to its project page. The tool measures accuracy, relevance, and faithfulness of AI responses and offers a…
Developer lencx, creator of the open-source ChatGPT desktop client, has released Minke, a local-first desktop agent workspace powered by DeepSeek Harness under the Apache-2.0 license. The Electron app unifies conversatio…
A developer has published a tutorial showing how to add a verification loop to an AI agent in about 30 minutes, separating the component that generates work from the one that judges it. The approach builds a verifier as …
Cursor launched Origin Code Hosting on August 17, 2026, letting paid users host repositories directly inside its AI IDE with pull requests, CI integrations, and bidirectional GitHub sync. The company, which has passed $2…
Pydantic AI released a dedicated ImageGenerator API that lets developers generate images directly without running an agent, supporting OpenAI GPT Image, Google Gemini via both the Gemini Developer API and Vertex AI, and …
OpenCV, the computer vision library first released in 2000 as an Intel Research project, has reached version 5.0, a significant cleanup and reorganization of the toolkit with a modernized API structure and better compati…
Software developer Stacknaut published a detailed breakdown of his agentic coding setup, built around three coding agents — Factory's Droid, Anthropic's Claude Code, and OpenAI's Codex — that share a single AGENTS.md con…
LinkBunny launched a marketplace that lets site owners use coding agents to exchange nofollow backlinks, charging $20 per month for up to 10 active sites with no per-backlink fees. The service matches sites within a Doma…