· 1 min · tooling
Your agent is only as good as your repo
Teams keep grading the model on codebases that would fail any new human too. The preparation argument, with the checklist I actually run.
· 1 min · tooling
Teams keep grading the model on codebases that would fail any new human too. The preparation argument, with the checklist I actually run.
· 1 min · tooling
Anthropic's Python SDK v1.0 shipped August 20 and deleted temperature, top_p and top_k from Messages calls. On Opus 4.7 and later the API already rejected them. Migration notes.
· 3 min · agents
The orchestrator, the critic, the researcher and the planner walk into your architecture. One model with good tools was already doing the job. The math and the exceptions.
· 5 min · tooling
Plain fetches get div soup and cookie walls. Stripe, Cloudflare, Vercel and the Claude docs now answer Accept: text/markdown, and copying them takes an afternoon.
· 2 min · architecture
Frontier output pricing is down roughly 88% since early 2023. The clever cost engineering from two years ago is now complexity you pay to keep.
· 2 min · tooling
The 2026-07-28 spec release candidate kills sticky sessions, adds real auth, and makes remote MCP servers deployable like any other web service. Finally.
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