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A developer outlined "graph engineering" as a way to bring backend predictability to multi-agent AI systems, describing it as modern backend architecture — like microservices — applied to agents. The approach treats node…
A developer rebuilt Shadow's 24fps multimodal synthesis pipeline around a bitemporal CIEDE2000 calibration substrate, treating each frame as an immutable event to eliminate colour drift across 90-minute renders. The syst…
Lowdefy released v6, replacing Next.js with a Hono server and a Vite-built React client while leaving existing YAML app definitions unchanged. The release adds WebSocket channels, notification emails, cron schedules, LLM…
Developer Runyte released an open-source terminal workspace built around a modal text editor and written in Rust, currently pre-1.0 but fully usable on Linux and macOS. Runyte combines files, terminal panes, and Git view…
A developer using Cursor v0.42.x eliminated repeated hallucinated import paths in a feature-sliced design project by adding a project-specific .cursorrules file that forbids imports from top-level /components or /hooks f…
A developer built and shipped dsh-model-pricing, a plugin for DeepSeek Harness that adds per-million-token cost comparisons and cheapest-route badges to the harness's Settings page, after testing the tool for a week. The…
A developer argues that utility APIs should adopt payment-as-authorization using the x402 protocol, an open HTTP payment standard led by the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation, rather than requiring AI agents to …
Developer Daniele Scasciafratte, known as Mte90, released linus-torvalds-skill, a reproducible pipeline that distills Linus Torvalds' code-review style from 31,397 kernel mailing-list emails into an AGENTS.md-style skill…
A deep-research pass conducted through four LLMs — ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and GLM — concluded that TRIZ should not be applied to software debugging until a failure's cause is established through evidence. The research fo…
OtoDock released version 1.6.0, a Fair Source self-hosted platform that wraps Claude Code and Codex CLI into a multi-tenant app, running each agent as a persistent process inside a bubblewrap sandbox with pasta network i…
A developer published a step-by-step guide for deploying Google's 2B Gemma 4 model to Cloud Run with an NVIDIA L4 GPU, using vLLM for serving and a single-file Python MCP server to stage weights, deploy, health-check, be…
Open-source project Nightshift, published at github.com/openslop/nightshift, runs a coding agent overnight to perform 10 job types — including security, bugs, maintainability, performance, conventions, architecture, smok…
A new open-source tool called homestead-memory logs every Claude Code tool call in a hash-chained, tamper-evident local ledger at a median cost of about 124ms per call (138ms p95, measured on an M3 Pro with a 4KB tool re…
Vercel increased storage for every Vercel Sandbox to 64 GB, up from 32 GB, according to a changelog post by Andy Waller and Luke Phillips-Sheard. The change applies to sandboxes created from a Vercel Managed Image or cus…
A developer built the Couples Shared Account Engine, an MCP server that uses deterministic tools to handle proportional, income-weighted expense splitting for shared households, avoiding the arithmetic errors common in L…
A developer detailed the "AI integration illusion," the systematic gap between AI features that work flawlessly in demo sandboxes and crash under production conditions. The writeup attributes failures to distribution shi…
A developer built Phokus, a distraction-free markdown notepad that tracks how often a user's focus slips and responds with roasts or praise. The bare-bones tool deliberately omits accounts, menus, and AI writing assistan…
XAI's Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) model, released 2025-11-19 with a 128k context window and 30k max output, has been marked deprecated with no announced retirement date, according to a provider announcement tracked by mode…
Agent-Native Analytics launched as a product that places an AI agent inside the analytics application alongside dashboards, metric definitions, and connected data sources, allowing it to write BigQuery SQL, dry-run queri…
OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 as a developer API, a full-duplex speech model that listens and talks simultaneously and is already running inside ChatGPT, priced at $0.05 per minute. On OpenAI's benchmarks, GPT-Live-1 scores…