Software Factories Are Here and Engineers Are Now Operators
Factory just said the quiet part out loud. Engineers don't write software anymore. They build the factories that write the software. Here is what that actually means.
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170 Packages. 518 Million Downloads. One Worm.
A self-propagating worm hit TanStack, Mistral, UiPath and 170+ npm/PyPI packages in hours, then Nx Console. What was stolen and how to check if you're hit.
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43% of AI-Generated Code Breaks in Production
Lightrun surveyed 200 SRE and DevOps leaders: 43% of AI code needs manual debugging, 0% are very confident, and Amazon lost 6.3M orders to it.
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Spark 2.0 Streams 100M Gaussian Splats to Your Browser
World Labs open-sourced Spark 2.0: a streaming Gaussian Splatting engine rendering 100M+ splat worlds in any browser via Three.js and WebGL2.
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AI Is a Multiplier, Not a Magic Bullet: DORA 2025
DORA surveyed 5,000 devs. AI makes good teams great and broken teams worse. Here is the 7-capability playbook that separates the two.
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The Last Prompt: A 17-Category AI Production Audit
One system prompt that turns any LLM into a senior production-readiness reviewer: 17 categories, PASS/YELLOW/RED, evidence-backed. The gate before you ship
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Caveman Prompting: Cut LLM Output Tokens by 65%
A Claude Code skill that makes AI talk caveman cut output tokens 65%, 87% on React debugging. Why brevity makes LLMs cheaper and sharper.
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HTML in Canvas: The WICG drawElement Proposal
A new WICG proposal renders real, interactive HTML into canvas. The three primitives, privacy-preserving painting, and WebGL support, explained.
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Microsoft Open-Sourced an Agent Governance Toolkit
Microsoft open-sourced 7 MIT-licensed packages for AI agent governance: identity, policy enforcement, trust scoring, and full OWASP coverage at sub-0.1ms.
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EmDash Hit 7.6K Stars in Days — Even Mullenweg Noticed
EmDash hit 7.6K GitHub stars in days. Mullenweg called it excellent engineering and Joost de Valk the most interesting CMS news in years. Five takeaways.
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Cloudflare Launched EmDash, and It Will Eat WordPress
Cloudflare dropped EmDash — the open-source CMS built to fix everything that made WordPress a security and speed nightmare for years.
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Cloudflare Dynamic Workers: A Game Changer for AI Agents
For years we have been building AI agents that think in code but cannot run it safely. Dynamic Workers changes everything.
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Everything Is a Skill Issue
The models already have the raw capability. The jagged intelligence frontier is not about the AI — it is about you.
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I Hacked Firecrawl's CTF and Hit #1 on the Leaderboard
10 problems. 45 seconds. Got #1 via an exploit discovery. Here is the full breakdown.
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We're Getting AI Agent Skills All Wrong
Loading a skills.md into context is just prompt engineering. It does not change the model. Real skills need a different architecture.
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OpenClaw: The AI Agent That Started a War
Peter Steinberger built the most exciting open-source AI agent. Then Anthropic banned users for using it. OpenAI decided to partner instead.
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Vibe Coding Was the Appetizer. Vibe Maxing Is the Meal.
Vibe Maxing: where builders orchestrate entire fleets of AI agents running in parallel, debugging each other, shipping features while you sleep.
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What Stage Are You in Your AI-Assisted Coding Journey?
From zero AI to full agent orchestration — a framework for understanding where you are on the AI-assisted coding spectrum.
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