Grok Build Is Open Source, but xAI Won’t Take Your Patches
On July 16, 2026, xAI's GitHub organization published the Rust source for Grok Build. Grok Build is a terminal coding agent that can edit…
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A Factory Reset Left the Previous Owner’s GPS Coordinates on a Kasa Camera
A factory reset that leaves the previous owner’s location behind is a broken reset. If you sell a device or send it back, the…
Read postGitHub Is Capping the AI Pull Request Flood
GitHub has added a setting that lets maintainers cap how many pull requests a person without write access can have open in one repository.…
Read postSonnet 5 Is Dead in the Water
Ignore the token price for a second and look at the run cost. Theo's total-run screenshot shows Claude Sonnet 5 max at $6,015 for…
Read postAnthropic Is Hitting a Wall
Anthropic had the developer story every AI lab craved. Claude Code worked. Opus was expensive but worth the splurge. Sonnet was known as the…
Read postClaude Code Quietly Got 5x More Expensive
I started with an easy quota question. Should I get another Claude account or have I been using the ones I have poorly? Then…
Read postClaude Code Is Quietly Fingerprinting China-Linked API Routers
Claude Code has a hidden test for where your requests are going. The trigger is ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, the environment variable people use when they want…
Read postSmall Teams Will Ship More Software Than They Can Maintain
Using Cursor and Claude, a 5-person engineering team can now build a billing webhook handler, a customer import tool, a Slack alert bot, an…
Read postAI Makes Bad Product Decisions Look Like Finished Software
AI tools make one software failure mode much easier to miss: a bad product decision can now arrive wrapped in a working interface. In…
Read postThe AI Productivity Trap Is More Output
AI makes it dirt cheap to generate code, draft tickets, summarize meetings, and write proposals. But cheaper generation doesn't mean the work actually gets…
Read postIf Software Gets 90 Percent Cheaper, Who Captures the Savings?
Imagine AI can code at a much higher rate. It’s easy to think development is going to get a lot cheaper. But if writing…
Read postThe AI Coding Era Makes Boring Tests More Valuable
Agents can now produce cheap, plausible diffs. A developer can describe a bug, give it to an agent, and get a patch with tests…
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