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A laid-off software developer used the 83 topics in Dan Vanderkam's book "Effective TypeScript" as hints fed to the opencode LLM agent to convert a personal JavaScript project to TypeScript, removing roughly 80% of the t…
Agentwire launched as a curated index of existing agent tooling, cataloging MCP servers and agent harnesses from other developers. The index lists 62 curated lists and 127 language entries, with featured projects includi…
Asad Khan, a Forbes Councils member, argues in a Forbes Innovation piece that engineering quality must be treated as a design decision made alongside system architecture when AI writes code, assembles interfaces and runs…
Apple's iOS 27, shipping September 14, gives every app targeting it free access to an on-device 3-billion-parameter language model through the Foundation Models framework, with no API key or inference bill required. The …
The MCP server com.keptbits/keptbits, which turns long videos into captioned vertical clips, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-11 as version 1.0.0 and is distributed as a hosted remote over streamable…
A developer re-ran an identical A/B test of 41 AI tool descriptions and found the same 89/96 score both times, yet two individual cases flipped in opposite directions, revealing a noise floor of about 2 cases that the ag…
A local TypeScript CLI called ASU, published to npm as @allixsenos/asu and now at version 0.7.0, lets users check remaining usage on their Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot coding-agent subscriptions directly from each p…
The MCP server io.github.javalenciacai/mcp-reportia reached version 0.3.2, published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-11 and distributed as @james.valencia/mcp-reportia on npm, according to the mcpindex registry i…
The MCP server io.github.yaminbkk/nexusmem, a local-first memory tool for AI coding agents, was published at version 0.10.5 to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-11 and distributed as nexusmem on npm. The mcpindex inde…
A new npm package called 190proof provides a unified interface for calling models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, OpenRouter, and AWS Bedrock through a single `provider:model-id` string format. The package handles …
A developer built ClinicLive, a Blazor Server clinic-booking app with PostgreSQL, SignalR live-queue and chat surfaces, auth, a nine-test suite, CI, and deploy artifacts, for roughly $6.20 in API spend and about an hour …
A developer's weekly Dev Opportunity Radar newsletter highlights three open opportunities: the AI for Education Fellowship from Worldwide Studios, AWS Student Rewards through the AWS Builder Center, and the Multi-App AI …
Rinkia released bastiontrace, an open-source, dependency-free Python tool that analyzes JSONL agent traces to locate prompt injections, identify the first forbidden tool call, and map the injection's blast radius. The to…
Mercemur launched a Shopify competitor built around agent-first commerce, offering 571 API operations across catalogue, orders, customers, pricing, and money, plus an MCP endpoint at https://mcp.mercemur.com/mcp and a CL…
Shopify is rebuilding its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin, six years after moving them to React Native, with its engineering blog crediting coding agents for cutting the cost of maintaining two platforms in sync. The pos…
Cisco principal architect Bruce McDougall built an open-source software emulator for Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), the OpenAI-developed transport protocol for large-scale AI training networks, after Cisco was abse…
Chamilo 3.0 has been released as an open-source learning management system with a native MCP server and PAuth2.1 support, according to the project's changelog. The release includes fixes across display, course, document,…
Artifactkit is a zero-dependency UI kit that lets AI agents produce reports, dashboards, kanbans, wikis, scorecards and decks as a single self-contained .html file that opens by double-click with no server, build or netw…
Kage launched on Hacker News as a tool that turns design inspiration from real product interfaces into prompts for coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The site lists 160 designs, 780 components, 88 pr…
A guide published on an AI-focused site recommends seven alternatives to Reddit for AI coding discussion: Hugging Face, the Cursor Discord, Stack Overflow's AI-tagged section, Dev.to, PromptCube, X, and GitHub Discussion…