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We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps

We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps

We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps Matt Webb: I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an “Install” button. (But install to where?) The lesson here is that when vibe-coding accelerates app development, apps become more personal, more situated, and more frequent. Shipping a tool or a micro-app is less like launching a website and more like posting on a blog. This inspired me to have Claude add an Atom feed (and icon) to my…

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The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words. The most prominent project written in Zig may be the Bun JavaScript runtime, which was acquired by Anthropic in December…

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LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor

LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor

I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I've been working towards for quite a while. Previous versions of LLM modeled the world in terms of prompts and responses. Send the model a text prompt, get back a text response. import llm model = llm.get_model("gpt-5.5") response = model.prompt("Capital of France?") print(response.text()) This made sense when I started working on the library back in April…

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Don’t Automate Your Moat: Matching AI Autonomy to Risk and Competitive Stakes

Don’t Automate Your Moat: Matching AI Autonomy to Risk and Competitive Stakes

I was talking to a senior engineer at a well-funded company not long ago. I asked him to walk me through a critical algorithm at the heart of their product, something that ran hundreds of times a second and directly affected customer outcomes. He paused and said, “Honestly, I’m not totally sure how it works. […]

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