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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

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I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app

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Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns

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Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog

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Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat

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The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement

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Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built

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How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

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Running Pydantic’s Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssembly

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Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

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Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website

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ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files

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Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent

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My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs

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Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

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LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends

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