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Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags

Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags

Deploying new features used to mean holding your breath. You merged the branch, pushed to production, and hoped the QA process caught everything. If it didn’t, rollback meant either reverting a deployment or shipping a hotfix under pressure. Feature flags change that story entirely, and Laravel Pennant gives you a first-party, well-designed way to build […] The post Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Orchestrions

Orchestrions

San Francisco tip: it only costs around $15 ($10 in quarters plus a $5 bill for the self-playing violin) to activate every single Orchestrion in Musée Mécanique. And because most people are bad at allocating their funds you may well be the ONLY person activating the Orchestrions, which means you get to craft the soundscape for the entire museum. Tags: san-francisco

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New Study Identifies 53 Slopsquatting Targets Across 5 Frontier LLMs

New Study Identifies 53 Slopsquatting Targets Across 5 Frontier LLMs

A new independent research preprint examining nearly 200,000 code-generation responses found that five frontier large language models continue to invent package names that do not exist on PyPI or npm. The models’ overall package-hallucination rates were much closer than those measured in earlier research, ranging from 4.62% to 6.10%. The study also identified package names generated by every model in the test group. The initial analysis found 127 names shared across Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude…

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Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's similar in shape to LM Studio, providing both a chat interface and a localhost API server for accessing models. The app picked up MLX models I had already tried that were present in my Hugging Face cache directory, which was a nice touch.…

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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic use these tools themselves. The full video of the session is now available on YouTube. Below is an edited copy of the transcript, with extra links and my own bolded highlights. A few top-level notes if you don't want to watch the video or…

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Quarterly Progress Report - Q2 2026

Quarterly Progress Report - Q2 2026

Our team of core developers works very hard to strengthen and improve the PHP language. In an effort to improve the way we communicate this work, from now on, we will be posting quarterly updates regarding their individual projects and efforts. Our core team consists of 13 people, distributed across 8 countries. Most of our contractors work part-time for The PHP Foundation and have other ventures aside from working on the PHP core. Also, this report is not meant to be a comprehensive list of…

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Tempest 3.0: The PHP Framework That Gets Out of Your Way

Tempest 3.0: The PHP Framework That Gets Out of Your Way

If you spend most of your PHP time in Laravel or Symfony, you may have noticed a framework quietly picking up momentum over the past couple of years. Tempest describes itself as “the PHP framework that gets out of your way,” and after spending time with version 3.0 — released February 12, 2026 — that […] The post Tempest 3.0: The PHP Framework That Gets Out of Your Way appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Reverse-engineering is cheap now

Reverse-engineering is cheap now

I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes. I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the reduced cost of writing code. Prior to agents, it was entirely possible to reverse-engineer home devices. The problem was the ROI - was it really worth all of that effort? More importantly, any experienced programmer knows that undocumented, unstable APIs like that may well change or break in the future. Is that…

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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and could help US open models compete more effectively with their Chinese counterparts: The U.S. should pass a law that (1) makes explicit that collecting data for training models is fair use, and (2) bars terms of service that forbid distillation, for U.S. companies at a minimum. Stopping distillation —…

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Quoting Sam Altman

Quoting Sam Altman

We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. We will discuss it more at our next board meeting, but one thing we’d like to do soon is to create a language model with the approximate capability of GPT-3 that can run locally on consumer hardware and release that. We’d like to do it soon, before Stability or someone else does. In general, we think this helps discourage others from releasing similarly-powerful models, and makes it harder for new efforts to get funded.…

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