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A production playbook for orchestrating AI agents in enterprise .NET applications outlines how a U.S. retail platform cut latency from 1.2 seconds to under 150 ms per SKU and reduced token usage by 40% by adding an orche…
A developer shipped GitTrends AI v5.0, an open-source registry and real-time star-velocity tracker for GitHub repositories that adds a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so coding agents like Claude Code and Curs…
An engineer's experiment on Orca, a desktop tool for organizing terminals and agent work, traced a runaway remount bug to a cleanup predicate that consulted the wrong index: terminal rows and unified UI tabs live in sepa…
A developer built an architecture connecting Google Cloud Run Sandboxes (gVisor) directly to Google Apps Script, enabling deterministic Python and Bash execution inside Google Workspace in 200–450 ms with zero-trust micr…
Researchers introduced Φ-Bench, a new benchmark designed to test whether large language models can engineer the infrastructure that powers them, according to the paper's headline and abstract. The work argues that existi…
Busabase released @busabase/dsh-plugin, a plugin that connects DeepSeek Harness to Busabase so an agent can read approved Docs, Files, Bases, and Records and submit every proposed write as a ChangeRequest for human revie…
The vanna-ai/vanna repository, a 23.8k-star text-to-SQL library, was archived by its owner on 29 March 2026, leaving production users without dependency updates, security patches, or issue support. Developer Ashish Sinha…
A hobbyist developer documented learning the mathematics behind machine learning and implementing a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) from scratch in the Julia programming language, covering both CPU and GPU versions. After c…
A developer discovered that 71 of the 223 keys in Claude Code's settings reference are scope-restricted, meaning placing them in a project's .claude/settings.json silently does nothing — no error, no warning. The develop…
A developer writing as Riven Desk outlines a verification sequence for reviewing AI agent-generated pull requests, arguing that a green CI check from an agent is a claim rather than a merge signal. The recommended order …
A developer describes a practice of attempting to falsify the core assumption behind a decision before writing code, citing cases where early tests killed ideas cheaply. On a project called ShrekOS, an assumed standard i…
ChatGPT users are reporting that Developer Mode MCP connectors work in new conversations but later fail with the error "FORBIDDEN: This conversation does not support developer MCPs," according to a support thread posted …
A security researcher identified a CSV injection vulnerability in Dify, an open-source AI platform, where user-supplied cell values in the XLS spreadsheet parser were not properly quoted when written to CSV, allowing cra…
A developer replaced a custom SSRF protection implementation in a PyTorch torchtitan PR with the requests-hardened library after maintainer @shuhuayu advised against re-implementing safety guards. The custom code, which …
A developer published a practical checklist for making APIs safe for AI agents, arguing that an MCP server alone does not fix ambiguous side effects, retries, data limits, or recovery paths. The checklist recommends tagg…
Envoy AI Gateway has been renamed Agent Router and has joined the Agentic AI Foundation, giving agent builders a single integration point for every model and MCP tool. The project grew out of a 2024 collaboration between…
Playship launched a tool that generates a working web app from a one-line idea, deploys it to the user's own Firebase Hosting project, and automates Android Play Store listings, build uploads, staged rollouts, and Play B…
Rayrun launched as an MCP gateway that handles hosting, data governance, secrets, OAuth rotation, and organization-wide visibility for teams ranging from solo developers to 500 people, according to its creator's Show HN …
A developer built Aggrete, an open-source governance layer for AI assistants that deliberately keeps language models out of the decision path, using deterministic rules instead of a guard model to allow or deny actions a…
A developer published a todo-list application demonstrating the Postgres + Elm + Go (PEG) stack in which every seam is machine-generated: sqlc produces the database-to-Go layer, protoc generates the Go-to-Elm bindings, a…