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A developer's three-month comparison of Cursor and Kimi K2 on a TypeScript dashboard project found that constraining context, rather than switching models, drove the biggest gains: explicit file tagging cut Tailwind 3.4 …
A developer known as KyuRish has released mcp-dashboards, a free MCP server that renders interactive charts, dashboards, flow diagrams, and timelines directly inside AI chat replies rather than as prose. Built on the MCP…
A developer launched Ridge, a tool that gives coding agents common operations for accessing data and running commands across local, SSH, Docker, and S3 environments through MCP, a CLI, or Python. The developer built Ridg…
Researchers Li, Zhang, Hou and coauthors published an arXiv supply-chain study of AI agent harnesses including Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenHarness and WorkBuddy, describing an attack framework…
A staff software development engineer in test with more than eight years of automation framework experience published a decision framework for determining when AI should write software tests, arguing that the most expens…
A developer's 30-day experiment running a multi-agent Claude Code "company" shipped nine products and over 280 posts but generated $0 in revenue, a post-mortem concluding that multi-agent systems can build anything but c…
Cursor and Claude Code users have no single official forum, with Cursor discussions centered on the Cursor Forum at forum.cursor.com and the Cursor Discord, while Claude Code talk is scattered across X, Reddit, and the A…
A developer built ReadmeRank, an AI-powered SaaS tool that evaluates, scores, and optimizes GitHub README files with smart code validation and instant feedback. The app is built with Python and Streamlit and is available…
GitHub deprecated the MAI-Code-1-Flash model across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026, directing users to switch to MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. Copilot Enterprise administrators may need to enable access to th…
Cognition released SWE-2, a 2.8T-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model built on the Kimi K3 base, which scored 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 — the highest figure in the published table — and 50.0 on FrontierCode 1.1 Mai…
A developer argues that as AI coding agents make implementation cheaper, verification becomes the bottleneck, because agents and their tests can share the same incomplete assumptions about what "correct" behavior means. …
A developer traced a silent vector search failure to pgvector's HNSW ef_search parameter, whose default of 40 limits the candidate list the graph walk keeps in flight, causing relevant chunks to be missed even when prese…
A Hacker News submission asks why AI-based decompilation remains unsolved despite the availability of thousands of source-executable pairs for training and the compiler being a parameter AI can identify and weight. The p…
AgentGuard, an Apache-2.0 Linux eBPF LSM supervisor for coding agents, launched at version 0.1.2 as an early prototype that enforces security policy at the kernel level rather than inside the agent. The tool loads YAML p…
A developer released Nola, a TypeScript superset that makes LLM inference a native language feature, built around three concepts: 'infer' to define the LLM inference context, 'Intent' to encapsulate data and instructions…
Netlify has integrated with Cursor's Origin Git hosting platform, letting Origin repositories build, preview, and deploy on Netlify the same way GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories do. The integration is in beta a…
A solo operator running 42 domains and several SaaS platforms from Diakopto, Greece, has published a rulebook for letting AI coding agents work on a live production server without breaking it. The core principle is that …
Google announced the google-cloud-developer plugin for AI coding agents, published in the open Google Agent Skills repository and built to the vendor-neutral Agent Plugins specification. The plugin bundles skills for aut…
A developer built Loop Engine, an open-source Rust CLI that runs a repository-aware AI coding workflow of plan, edit, verify, review, and reflect against a local codebase. The tool uses OpenRouter for model access, allow…
Cognition released SWE-2, a coding model built on Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3, which scores 50.0% on the company's FrontierCode 1.1 Main benchmark — within one point of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 at 64% lower…