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Based on Databricks' own experience and conversations with engineering leaders at Stripe, Coinbase, Uber and Ramp, the post lays out four cost levers: chase the "efficiency frontier" (best price for a given quality bar) rather than the…
OpenAI gave a presentation at Black Hat USA on August 5 about what it calls "the Hugging Face Incident," and Willison built a dated timeline from the video. An agent given an impossible task (a Google Drive link with no internet access)…
The essay argues that once producing code is nearly free, the only thing that still separates good work from bad is judgment, what the author calls taste, and that the market currently fails to reward it: "Taste is slow. It says 'no,…
Read from the on-disk transcript rather than watched. The captions are auto-generated, so everything below is paraphrase cited to a timestamp, and nothing is quoted.
LangChain draws its own product boundaries along lines the corpus argues about. LangGraph is called the agent runtime, LangChain the agent framework, Deep Agents the agent harness, and the harness is defined by function: "The job of an…
The agent host is the structural change. It runs agent harnesses "such as Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process" on a published Agent Host Protocol, lets you reach one agent session from several windows, and puts a harness…
The object being named is what happens when you are misled by a confidently wrong AI debugging diagnosis and slop follows. The ballot is vibe debugging (derogatory), thrashmaxxing, vibe coping, rebugging, closing around 10:48 EDT August 8.
A hosted, API-first runtime for the open-source Deep Agents harness, still private beta by waitlist. It keeps the project shape practitioners already write, AGENTS.md, skills/, subagents/ and tools.json, versions those files server-side,…
The notashelf.dev essay under this thread is still unread, so nothing about its argument appears here. The discussion is decelerating for the first time: 627 points and 497 comments at roughly 26.2 hours old as of 15:16 EDT today, an…
The pipeline reads incoming bug reports, reproduces them in sandboxes, diagnoses the root cause, and ships preview releases for the reporter to verify. First-party figures: open issues went from "over 200 to about 30," and Phillips…
Wauters built a browser game in which you play the human-in-the-loop for a coding agent, approving or denying commands under a clock, and has published the data from over 40,000 runs and 409,000 decisions. Read the headline as carefully…
Two lines in today's release change harness configuration. The deprecated codex exec --full-auto flag is removed, with --sandbox workspace-write named as the replacement, so any script invoking Codex non-interactively needs editing.
A counter-argument, and this feed is short of them. Balić asks why the team was slow to begin with, and answers that in the mid-sized companies he has worked in it was never coding capacity: "nobody could say what 'done' meant, or who owned…
Six models go away across all Copilot experiences on September 1: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5 and 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 4.6, Raptor Mini. Sonnet 4.6 survives for individual subscribers on annual plans only.
The notashelf.dev essay behind this thread has not been read, so nothing about its argument is reported here. The discussion has.
Databricks built an internal benchmark out of recent merged PRs across a multi-million line codebase spanning Scala, Rust, TypeScript, Go, Python, Bazel and Protobuf, then ran models and harnesses through it out of the box. The…
Three changes matter for anyone running a fleet. claude self-hosted-runner "turns your own machines or containers into a place Claude Code web, mobile, and desktop sessions can run," on Team and Enterprise plans. Cross-session SendMessage…
Gorman's model has two terms, not one. Errors compound: "Take a wrong turn at step N, and step N+1, N+2, N+3 could well build on that mistake." Verification is the correction: "Mistakes aren't a problem if they're caught before they…
The follow-up, and it names this publication's subject directly. Gorman generalises mutation testing, which tests a test suite by injecting defects, into a class he calls Brown M&M tests, after the Van Halen rider clause used to check…
Meta's first terminal coding agent, in beta for macOS and Linux. Its runtime uses a local append-only event log of "every model call, tool run, approval, and edit" that makes the agent "replay-exact and restart-safe" after a crash.