A Project Mulled Over for Eight Years, Built in Three Months with AI
A moving developer account: SyntaqLite, a project nurtured in the author's head for eight years, became reality in three months with the help of AI coding.
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Just How Many Copilots Does Microsoft Have?
Someone seriously counted every thing named Copilot across Microsoft's product lines, and turned it into a piece that's both funny and useful—the number is so big even Microsoft itself may not be able to keep it straight.
Superpowers: A Love Letter to a Claude Code Plugin
An enthusiastic usage report praises Claude Code's Superpowers plugin to the skies: it fits the agent with a methodology—thinking things through before working, and doing a retrospective afterward.
Claude Code Digs Up a 23-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability
A researcher used Claude Code to find a vulnerability that had lurked in the Linux kernel for 23 years. AI auditing old code went from theoretically feasible to a track record.
Running Tests With Hundreds of Agents at Once: mngr Field Report, Part Two
The second field report in the mngr series: the author put hundreds of AI agents in parallel on real testing tasks and recorded the problems that only surface after you scale up.
We Replaced RAG With a Virtual Filesystem
An engineering retrospective: the team tore out their doc assistant's entire RAG architecture and replaced it with letting the model browse files itself in a virtual filesystem—and the results went up instead.
AMD Lemonade: Running Local Models on GPU and NPU Together
AMD's open source Lemonade project aims to lower the barrier to local inference: unified scheduling across GPU and NPU, so running large models on consumer AMD hardware no longer depends on arcane configuration.
Claude Code Illustrated: Taking It Apart for a Look
A visual guide lays out Claude Code's inner workings: how context is managed, how tools are dispatched, how the agent loop turns—read it and you'll have a better feel for the tool in your hands.
Claude Code Source Leak: Fake Tools, Anti-Frustration Regexes, and an "Undercover Mode"
After the Claude Code source leaked, people digging through the code compiled a batch of interesting findings: fake tools used for testing, regular expressions that detect user frustration, and undisclosed run modes.
A Sourcemap on npm Leaked the Claude Code Source
Claude Code's source code was reconstructed from a leftover sourcemap file in its npm package—a textbook release-process blunder.
GitHub Copilot Reported to Write Ads Into PRs
Multiple developers report that pull requests generated by GitHub Copilot carried promotional content. The commercializing hand of a dev tool reaching into code commits touched off widespread anger.
"Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR"
A developer posts a first-hand account: Copilot edited promotional content into his pull request, complete with screenshots and links. The first-person version hits harder than a news report.
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