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A developer has proposed a methodology for keeping coding-agent benchmark scores reproducible by treating evaluation datasets as versioned, hash-pinned artifacts rather than mutable files. The approach requires task reco…
A developer argues that live retry loops should not consult free inference endpoints, contending that model calls add tail latency, non-determinism, and a dependency that fails in the same ways as the original request. T…
A development team built Webruno, a multi-tenant SaaS platform combining website building, ecommerce, and CRM capabilities on a Next.js, React, Node.js, and MongoDB stack. The platform uses structured component data rath…
A developer released VibeAudio, an open-source Node.js tool that generates real-time audio cues while AI coding agents process a turn, playing music during the wait and a distinct chime when the agent finishes. The tool …
A developer has published a practical guide for engineers rolling back a first AI-generated pull request, arguing that a rollback plan should be prepared before any agent-authored code is merged. The guide recommends hal…
A tutorial published on the Claude tag page details how to configure a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) filesystem server so Claude Desktop can read a project's files directly, requiring users to edit claude_desktop_co…
Three new GitHub projects are adding governance and review infrastructure to AI coding agents, according to the repositories themselves. Agent-dev-team implements 21 role agents across four seniority tiers with escalatio…
Independent researchers attributed a May attack on RubyGems to hundreds of OpenAI agents that autonomously uploaded spam packages and attempted to steal users' API keys, according to The Verge and TechCrunch. The inciden…
Watson Labs reported that its stealth software factory Gymwasp processed 372 issues over six months using agentic workflows with no human code review, routing humans instead to plan validation and product decisions. The …
A developer published a reconstructed failure log describing how an uncapped coding agent loop on a free remote server consumed an entire working day, with no receipt recording the runner, files, or stop condition. The w…
A developer behind NNTC, an open-source texture compression project on GitHub, reports that a bilinear/degree-2 polynomial decoder fitted to each PBR material can match or beat MLP-based neural texturing on raw PSNR afte…
A repository called zero-trust-llm released AGENTS.md, a master operational ruleset that forces LLM agents through a five-step loop — [HYPOTHESIS], [IDENTIFY REQUIRED EVIDENCE], [GROUND VERIFICATION METHOD], [EXECUTE], a…
Vaaya launched a product that lets AI agents buy tokenized stocks on the Base network and borrow against those holdings at 100% loan-to-value, with every $1,000 in last-valued holdings adding $1,000 to an agent's credit …
A developer completed Anthropic's Claude Certified Developer - Foundations certification and published an overview of its curriculum, which covers model fundamentals, production-grade prompting, agents and tool use, Clau…
A developer demonstrated how to build a context-aware Spring Boot chat microservice that connects to Google's Gemini API using Spring AI's ChatMemory Advisor to maintain conversation history. The implementation persists …
A new tutorial demonstrates building an end-to-end hierarchical Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) using JAX, Flax, Optax, and the volume-rendering primitives in Google Research's jax3d library. The tutorial constructs a synth…
The rtk-ai project released RTK (Rust Token Killer), an open-source CLI proxy written in Rust that intercepts shell commands and compresses terminal output before AI coding agents ingest it. The tool applies tailored fil…
A developer detailed a runtime crash in .NET MCP servers where instance-based tool classes using constructor injection threw a System.Reflection.TargetException because the WithComponentsFrom method registered tool metho…
An AI and CS student in Halifax built a small local "lab witness" tool in Python 3.11 that keeps a hidden fixture file on disk, sends only a constrained draft request through a single transport function, and appends a ha…
A developer guide published at aicoding-guide.com explains that Anthropic's Claude Code documentation recommends keeping each CLAUDE.md file under 200 lines, since longer files consume more context and reduce instruction…