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Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy
Platform teams that build from scratch are far more likely to report a lack of a clear strategy. As AI makes building easier, the reason behind the choice matters more than ever.
Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
Andrej Karpathy says the AI capability gap is widening. Box CEO Aaron Levie says agent swarms are next, but most enterprises aren’t ready to use them yet.
How to Scale an “AI App” to 1 Million Users in Production
#189: Part 7 - Generative AI Masterclass
Claude Code found my app’s shared contract in two MCP calls. Then the records ran out
Claude Code’s redesigned Projects give agents a shared memory of a project’s decisions. I tested what a brand-new session with no conversation history or local code could recover from versioning records, and where it hit a wall.
Claude found 29,000 possible bugs in open source. Only 516 have been fixed
Anthropic’s OSS Scanner sends unreviewed Claude vulnerability reports to open source maintainers, but finding bugs is proving far easier than fixing them.
How to turn AI production feedback into better agents
Your AI agent’s service is healthy. Its answers might still be getting worse.
Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft’s Decision-1 matches Jev’s price and skips OpenAI’s model. Here’s who it’s built for and what it still leaves out for developers building agents.
Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead
Even Elon Musk’s Grok Bot now picks the best model for each task. Here’s why companies are doing the same, and how cheap models are taking on most of the work.
Kubernetes on cgroup v1 is dead. Here’s what comes next
Welcome back to another edition of Road to KubeCon, where we’re tracking the latest movements in the cloud-native ecosystem as
Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook
Ryan Dahl’s Deno built Celld, a self-hosted take on Cloudflare Workers. Now Cloudflare is absorbing the team, and Deno’s own runtime is being wound down.
Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances. Here’s why it matters for SREs
Amazon ECS now auto-repairs failing GPUs and instances, mitigating outages and simplifying cloud application resilience for SREs.
AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on
Decision models are converging on a startup’s API. Developers gain cheaper, portable AI judgments, but shared code doesn’t guarantee reliable answers.
“Don’t use ‘open weight’ and ‘open source’ interchangeably”: Percona CEO on why AI terminology matters
Peter Farkas warns of the threat of “open washing”. And he thinks the AI industry could set a damaging precedent for software more broadly.
Harness bought Augment’s coding agents. The best feature hasn’t shipped yet
Harness bought Augment Code’s Cosmos to link AI coding agents to its delivery platform, but the part that learns from failed deployments hasn’t shipped.
Claude can now build your dashboards
Anthropic’s answer to OpenAI’s Data agent shows the query behind each number.
GitHub Copilot is going local — but Microsoft won’t say what gets sent to the cloud
GitHub Copilot will soon route coding tasks between local and cloud models, but Microsoft hasn’t said what context leaves your machine or how to stop it.
Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime
AI safety is on fire.
You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres
Postgres holds up well until live data keeps growing. See why performance slips at scale, what tuning can still solve, and when TimescaleDB offers a better path.
Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans
In our October 22 webinar, Traversal CTO Raaz Dwivedi explores what it takes to trust AI agents to decide when production incidents need attention.
OTel-Native by Design - Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack
With contributions from Dan Gomez Blanco (New Relic). If you’re building self-hosted software or a SaaS product, your users will eventually ask to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own observability stack, whether to satisfy compliance, manage costs, or centralize all their observability data in one place. Locking them into your built-in dashboards or limiting exports to certain vendors creates unnecessary friction.
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