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Gemini 3.7 Flash Makes Agent Cost the Feature

Reid Marlow5d ago • 4 min read

Gemini 3.7 Flash Makes Agent Cost the Feature

Google's new Flash model is interesting less because of another coding benchmark and more because it...

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GitGuardian Power for Amazon Kiro: Secrets Detection Built Into the Agent

Dwayne McDaniel12h ago • 4 min read

GitGuardian Power for Amazon Kiro: Secrets Detection Built Into the Agent

GitGuardian is now live on the Kiro Powers marketplace. Install the Power once, and Kiro's agent ca...

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Claude Code fork vs subagent: what /fork, /subtask, and subagent_type: "fork" each copy

Rulestack5d ago • 5 min read

Claude Code fork vs subagent: what /fork, /subtask, and subagent_type: "fork" each copy

If you have ever delegated work to a Claude Code subagent and then looked at your usage, you have...

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Auto mode is now Claude Code's default: what the classifier approves, and how to switch back

Rulestack6d ago • 5 min read

Auto mode is now Claude Code's default: what the classifier approves, and how to switch back

Starting today — August 14, 2026 — auto mode is the default permission mode for new Claude Code...

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We cut our CLAUDE.md from 548KB to 34KB: what loads when, measured — and the commit gate that keeps it small

Rulestack1d ago • 5 min read

We cut our CLAUDE.md from 548KB to 34KB: what loads when, measured — and the commit gate that keeps it small

Our CLAUDE.md was 548KB. Every session — including every subagent — loaded all of it before doing an...

#claudecode#ai#productivity#devtools

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GoFullPage got pulled. Here is how to take a full-page screenshot without any extension.

Alex @Bickov3d ago • 4 min read

GoFullPage got pulled. Here is how to take a full-page screenshot without any extension.

On 11 August the GoFullPage extension disappeared from the Chrome Web Store and got disabled in...

#webdev#chrome#devtools#ai

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When your MCP tool fails: errors, hangs, and empty results — what Claude Code actually does with each

Rulestack13h ago • 5 min read

When your MCP tool fails: errors, hangs, and empty results — what Claude Code actually does with each

Yesterday I posted a one-liner on Bluesky: an MCP tool that errors teaches the model something, one....

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Your MCP server is configured but Claude can't see it: reading claude mcp list status

Rulestack2d ago • 7 min read

Your MCP server is configured but Claude can't see it: reading claude mcp list status

You ran claude mcp add, it printed Added ..., and Claude still acts like the server does not exist.....

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I audited six token usage trackers. They disagree with each other by 2x to 8x.

Li Zhuojun1d ago • 8 min read

I audited six token usage trackers. They disagree with each other by 2x to 8x.

Over the past five months I took apart the folding logic in six token usage trackers and recomputed....

#ai#opensource#testing#devtools

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The Official DeepSWE Number Is Footnoted to DeepSeek Harness

Reid Marlow3d ago • 1 min read

The Official DeepSWE Number Is Footnoted to DeepSeek Harness

On August 13, DeepSeek shipped four things in one day. V4-Pro left preview. Peak and off-peak API...

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World Model Benchmarks Need Receipts, Not Just Scores

Reid Marlow1d ago • 5 min read

World Model Benchmarks Need Receipts, Not Just Scores

HarnessEval-W is a useful reminder that agent benchmarks need traces, evidence trees, and failure fa...

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OpenRouter vs Direct AI APIs: What Stripe's $7 Billion Acquisition Means for Developers

jamilxt2d ago • 9 min read

OpenRouter vs Direct AI APIs: What Stripe's $7 Billion Acquisition Means for Developers

Three days ago I wired DeepSeek V4 Pro into a Spring Boot app by pointing Spring AI at OpenRouter's....

#java#spring#ai#devtools

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Reid Marlow6d ago • 1 min read

DeepSeek's Harness Is the Price Signal

DeepSeek's new pricing is annoying. Its agent harness is the better signal about where AI tooling is...

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Don't trust "Done." — forcing AI agents to re-fetch reality before they report completion

hyuga3d ago • 7 min read

Don't trust "Done." — forcing AI agents to re-fetch reality before they report completion

"Inserted the rows. Done." — except not a single row had landed I hand a lot of my client...

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I got tired of setting up the same Python project over and over

Abhiix03d ago • 1 min read

I got tired of setting up the same Python project over and over

Create the folders. Set up src/ and tests/. Initialize Git. Create the virtual environment. Install....

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My linter kept warning the people who did it right. Three times, in the same direction

hyuga2d ago • 5 min read

My linter kept warning the people who did it right. Three times, in the same direction

The warning landed on the only people who had done it properly I maintain a linter that...

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Billing Kiro CLI (and my KiroCrew agent) to the Company AWS Account via IAM Identity Center

Robert J. Berger5d ago • 10 min read

Billing Kiro CLI (and my KiroCrew agent) to the Company AWS Account via IAM Identity Center

Moving Kiro CLI and my KiroCrew agent off personal billing onto the company AWS account via IAM Iden...

#aws#ai#kiro#devtools

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My MCP Server's Test Suite Ran Clean Every Time. It Was Also Writing to My Production Audit Log Every Time.

Enjoy Kumawat2d ago • 4 min read

My MCP Server's Test Suite Ran Clean Every Time. It Was Also Writing to My Production Audit Log Every Time.

server.py's --selftest block exercises update_article() end to end. It's the closest thing this repo...

#python#debugging#mcp#devtools

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My Bare os.environ[...] KeyError Bug Had Two Fixes on Record. I Found a Third Call Site That Never Got Either.

Enjoy Kumawat2d ago • 4 min read

My Bare os.environ[...] KeyError Bug Had Two Fixes on Record. I Found a Third Call Site That Never Got Either.

Nine days ago I fixed a bug where two scripts in this repo read DEV_TO_API with a bare...

#python#debugging#devtools#mcp

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I built a Python code reviewer that only reviews the code you changed

Mukund Jha17h ago • 2 min read

I built a Python code reviewer that only reviews the code you changed

I used to pay for an AI code reviewer. The trial was great — it caught a race condition I'd spent an...

#python#devtools#codequality#showdev

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Terminal Productivity Tips That Actually Save Time

Binary Journal6d ago • 3 min read

Terminal Productivity Tips That Actually Save Time

Stop Typing the Same Commands If you spend more than a few minutes a day in the terminal,...

#terminal#productivity#bash#devtools

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A diff tool should fail honestly when the input gets difficult

Martin Grüner9h ago • 1 min read

A diff tool should fail honestly when the input gets difficult

Diff Anything 1.2 is a quality release in the literal sense: the same files produce more faithful...

#showdev#devtools#programming#productivity

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Grok 4.6 + Mojo 1.0: Agent routing reshapes API layers

The Dev Signal6d ago • 5 min read

Grok 4.6 + Mojo 1.0: Agent routing reshapes API layers

The theme this week is consolidation: routing logic is moving out of gateways and into agent loops,....

#ai#devtools#programming#modelrouting

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Gemini 3.7 Flash: Coding Speed Breakthrough

The Dev Signal5d ago • 5 min read

Gemini 3.7 Flash: Coding Speed Breakthrough

This week's tooling landscape is defined by two themes: cost compression on capable models and...

#ai#devtools#programming#codegeneration

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