Tagged 'Coding Agents'
- 2026-10-02Gemini 4 Argon Can Write a Million Tokens. Long Is Not the Goal.
Google gave its new frontier model room for very long agent jobs. Use that capacity only when tests and checkpoints keep the work on course.
- 2026-10-01Cloudflare Built a CLI for Coding Agents. The Safety Feature Is Dry Run.
The new cf CLI gives agents more than 2,900 commands, machine-readable output, and request previews. Broad access still needs narrow credentials.
- 2026-09-29Claude Sonnet 5.5 Should Be Your Default Coding Model—Until the Job Gets Weird
Start routine coding at Sonnet 5.5 Medium. Raise effort—or move to Opus—only when the task proves it needs more judgment.
- 2026-09-22AI Can Write the PR. Your CI Still Has to Prove It.
Linear says agent-written code made CI a bottleneck. Here are three checks for speeding up the path from PR to green without weakening tests.
- 2026-09-20Gemini Hacked Three Companies. The Real Failure Was the Test Boundary.
Google says Gemini reached real companies during a cyber test. The useful lesson for developers is simpler than “rogue AI”: a prompt is not a firewall.
- 2026-09-18Claude Projects Turns Claude Into Your Project Manager. The Manager Still Needs Receipts.
Anthropic’s Claude Projects beta can coordinate cloud coding sessions with shared memory. The clever part is routing work. The risk is trusting worker summaries as proof.
- 2026-09-18Your Coding Model May Be Cheap. The Harness Can Still Double the Bill.
The same model often passed at similar rates across Claude Code, Codex and Pi—but the wrapper could change API cost dramatically.
- 2026-09-18The AI Watching Your Coding Agent Is a Smoke Alarm, Not a Lock
Agent-monitoring tools are multiplying. Use them to spot strange behavior, then keep hard permissions between the agent and damage.
- 2026-09-12AI Coding Agents Made the Rewrite Cheaper. Tests Made It Safe.
Shopify and Checkly show how coding agents can change rewrite economics—but only when small checkpoints, real tests, and staged rollouts define what correct means.
- 2026-09-11Anthropic’s threat report says your AI agent stack is now a target
Attackers are stealing AI credentials, probing agent sandboxes, and using agents to move faster. Secure the tools and tokens, not only the prompt.
- 2026-09-03Gemini 3.8 Flash wants to be your coding default. Make it earn the job.
Google’s new Flash model is generally available, priced like a fast model, and aimed at long agent jobs. The launch charts look serious. Your repository gets the deciding vote.
- 2026-08-28Copilot expands reviews of agent-written pull requests. Keep the human checkpoint.
GitHub expands automated reviews to bot-created and very large pull requests. Useful extra scrutiny—but it costs credits and can still miss bugs.
- 2026-08-23A coding agent ran for 24 hours and wrote 19,000 lines. Almost none of it mattered.
A broad objective, no decision gates, and a correctness-only review loop turned a small integration into a day of elaborate machinery. The failure was not autonomy. It was autonomy without control.
- 2026-08-22Your coding agent may need a supervisor loop when it gets stuck
NVIDIA’s AVO result suggests a practical rule for long coding jobs: preserve state, test real progress, and give a narrow supervisor permission to notice drift.
- 2026-08-19The next AI coding battle is who controls the software factory
Linear sees pull requests rising fast while planning barely moves. Cursor and Warp now want to own the repo, agent fleet, and checkpoints around that work.
- 2026-08-16SpaceX bought Cursor. Developers should watch price, model choice, and privacy.
The promise is cheaper models backed by enormous compute. The test is whether Cursor stays open to rival models, keeps its privacy commitments, and passes savings to users.
- 2026-08-15DeepSeek V4 Pro now works with Codex—and its API price changes by the hour
The agent model is generally available, supports the OpenAI Responses API, and costs half as much off-peak. Cheap is still true. Simple is not.
- 2026-08-11Meta Muse Glimmer can run locally—but it needs 24 GB of memory
Muse Glimmer is an open 30B agent model that can run locally. Here is what “on your device” actually requires.
- 2026-08-10Fable vs Opus vs Sonnet: Which Claude Model Built the Best Web Portal?
Fable was the most dependable Claude tier. It did not beat Codex Sol or Terra on requested features—and that is the useful part.
- 2026-08-10Claude vs Codex: What Happened When We Gave Them the Same Web Portal
We expected the same assignment to reveal a clear winner. It did not. On this ordinary portal, independent tests mattered more than the model name.