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A developer opened Postman. Then two AI coding agents changed without their permission.

A developer says Postman’s desktop app installed plugins into Claude Code and OpenAI Codex without their permission. The app also The post A developer opened Po

Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them?

Mazin Gilbert, executive director of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, left Google earlier this year to lead the new AAIF, The post Can agent standa

With Search Traffic Down 70%, People Inc. Bets On Revenue Beyond Site Visits

People Inc. isn’t mincing words about the current state of digital publishing: It’s bad. The company has seen a “critical loss of sessions,” Barry Diller, Peopl

Goldman Sachs restricted Claude Code for bankers — but made one surprising exception

Replit CEO Amjad Masad is warning that AI coding agents running on employee devices are becoming a security risk for The post Goldman Sachs restricted Claude Co

How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras

We invited readers to write about how building software changed, in an essay challenge. Many of you took part, and today we’re sharing the winning piece from a

How Netflix Uses AI Agents for Performance Engineering

The Netflix engineering team has developed an autonomous performance agent system. In this article, we’ll be learning more about it.

Chord Buys Its Rival Zenlytic To Build An Agentic Version Of A CDP

Two data infrastructure startups with agentic commerce ambitions are combining forces. On Tuesday, Chord, a 6-year-old commerce tech startup, acquired Zenlytic,

Anthropic speeds up Claude Code with message threads. But your token bill stays the same.

Anthropic has announced a new feature that aims to speed up long-running Claude Code sessions by reducing the amount of The post Anthropic speeds up Claude Code

This Ad Tech Company Wants To Ensure Brands Don’t Go Viral For The Wrong Reasons

Digital Culture Group aims to stop ineffective or offensive ads before they ever go live by preemptively determining what will resonate with – or push away – an

OpenAI May Not Be So Open For Long; Prediction Markets Bet On Endorsements

How long will OpenAI allow third-party ad serving?; celebrities keep signing on to promote prediction markets; and why ad buyers are scrutinizing their Google s

OpenAI built itself a new Git backend, too

OpenAI on Monday detailed how it built a new Git backend for its monorepo to power the ever-increasing number of The post OpenAI built itself a new Git backend,

Affle Acquires Perion For $420 Million, Because ‘Synergies’

If you ask the executive leadership of Affle and Perion why the two companies are merging, the answer you’ll get is “synergies.” Tal Jacobson, Perion’s CEO, is

How Nvidia's New Nemotron Model Works

In this article, we’ll look at how Nemotron works and the various techniques used by Nvidia while building it.

EP231: AI Terms You Need to Know

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The Pulse: Anthropic kills the coding interview

AI is rendering the Leetcode-style interview pointless and now Anthropic has deleted it from its interview loop. Also: details of incident.io’s AI spend, Micros

Data Movement Strategies In System Design

To manage this movement of data, you need to make decisions about when and how information should travel within a system and outside it.

Bliki: LLM Voice

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tel

Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?

TL;DR Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many

Software engineering at Google & CS education with Titus Winters

Titus Winters shares lessons from engineering at Google’s scale and explores how AI is reshaping developer productivity and computer science education.

How Uber Built A Gateway For AI Agents To Access Tools

In this article, we’ll look at how Uber built this gateway in detail.

Fragments: October 28

Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it look

AI SRE: what is it, how could it change on-call – and does it work?

“AI SRE” is fast becoming a trending term fueled by flashy demos from vendors, but has an AI SRE ever really been on-call while engineers slept? Deepdive

The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?

A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve? Also: Anthropic accused of version control “rip off”, and more

Fragments: October 21

Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is