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Eigent v1.0.2 Release Notes
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (1276+ words) Connect third-party apps, preview work without leaving your session, and tune every BYOK model Eigent v1.0.2 is a release about keeping your work connected, visible, and moving. The new Connector Gateway brings hosted third-party app connections directly into Eigent through MCP,…...
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reveals who will use AI 10 times more effectively than everyone else, & why students should still learn coding
8+ hour, 4+ min ago (603+ words) The Economic Times...
DOT Cuts Software Timelines From 18 Months to 18 Weeks Using AI
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (221+ words) DOT has reportedly used AI to compress software development from 18 months to 18 weeks. The Department of Transportation has accelerated its software development from roughly 18 months to 18 weeks by applying artificial intelligence, DOT Deputy Secretary Steven Bradbury said. Nextgov/FCW reported…...
Why your AI code always ends up producing "technical debt" (and how GEF solves the problem)
21+ min ago (1182+ words) Introduction: The Paradox of the Amnesiac Assistant It's an experience we've all had: you start a new project with a cutting-edge AI like Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot. The first few hours are magical. The architecture is clean, the commits are…...
Rescuing a Long-Running Job with 'Sub-Step Idempotency' — How vault-auto-ingest Escaped Timeout Hell
42+ min ago (599+ words) This is a continuation of my "Claude Code environment" series. Last time I wrote about making Google Calendar the ground truth for my Vault. This time it's about the timeout hell that hit the same vault-auto-ingest job — and how I…...
Incident Retrospectives Without Blame
50+ min ago (125+ words) I've run over 100 post-mortems. The worst ones end with 'Alice will be more careful.' The best ones end with 'we fixed the system.' Here's how you get from the first to the second. Ban these phrases from retros: People make…...
I built a coding agent in ~970 lines of Python and benchmarked it honestly
27+ min ago (467+ words) So the thesis of nano-harness is score-per-line-of-code: the smallest readable harness that still puts up a real number on a real benchmark. Think of Karpathys nanochat, but for agent harnesses —small enough to read end-to-end in one sitting, honest enough…...
301 duplicate IDs in the browser, 0 on the JVM: one real bug, end to end
21+ min ago (787+ words) A reader named Ryan left the sharpest comment on my last post. The gist: it was jargon-heavy, kept restating "you have to test the AI's output" in new words, and read more like a pitch deck than a case study....
I cannot find no fucks as there were no fucks given when the coding of this project took place.
37+ min ago (879+ words) We got the ball started… and honestly, it’s easier to keep pushing that ball than to dive head‑first into another direction. Slightly off‑topic for the exact scope of this series, but hey — when in Rome, right? If you're…...
Tool vs Talent in Solon AI: When a Function Is Not Enough
37+ min ago (340+ words) Most agent tutorials stop at tools: give the model a function schema, hope it calls the right one. That works for get_time and hash_string. It falls apart when the model skips a knowledge search and opens a ticket, or when eighty APIs…...