After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any remaining issues and plan to stabilize it in the next months. This is the largest single change to the Rust compiler since its initial relea...

Saving game data is easy. Making your save code survive every kind of hardware failure is not. A lot of these issues will never show up during testing, but if your game reaches a wide audience with many different kinds of hard drives in different states of degradation, you will start to get bug repo...

Introduction The first Jarvis Pro prototype could produce answers that sounded right. That was the problem. One early answer looked polished: it named the merchant, summarized the week, and recommended pushing promotions before the next review. It was also wrong. The merchant’s order volume was down...

For healthcare, fintech, pharma, insurance, and other regulated companies, implementation has gotten so much faster. What’s becoming even more valuable is judgment, knowing what to build, how fast to move, and where you can’t afford to be wrong. For a long time, one of the most common reactions to a...

If your primary goal is to buy the largest number of development hours at the lowest possible rate, you probably shouldn’t hire thoughtbot. That has probably always been true, but AI makes it a lot more obvious. Code is ridiculously easy to produce today. Good code is not, and good decisions definit...

Learn how to scale voice AI into production, protect your return on investment, and eliminate the custom infrastructure tax.

Laravel AI SDK 0.11 adds run-level events for agent steps and tool calls, hosted tool search for OpenAI and Anthropic, and wider provider failover. The post Agent Run Observability in Laravel AI SDK 0.11 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this di...

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B on August 14, 2026 — Apache 2.0 open-weights vision-capable model with 262K native context (1M via YaRN), runnable on consumer GPUs. Q4_K_M quantization is about 18 GB on a 24 GB GPU. Most coverage is benchmarks — developers need practical local setup via Ollama, LM Stud...

Cursor launched Origin on August 17, 2026 — its own code hosting platform with repos, PRs, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Same-day GitHub outage amplified developer interest. Early beta is paid-plan only with no clear step-by-step setup guide available. Continue reading Cursor Origin: GitHub Sync a...

OpenAI released Codex CLI as Apache 2.0 open-source agent harness with interactive CLI, programmatic SDK, and Codex app-server for product embedding. v0.147.0 shipped August 7, 2026. Most articles cover it as chat interface — developers need practical coverage of codex exec for CI pipelines and one-...

Graft is open-source hooks for Claude Code that reduce task tokens by 42% in controlled benchmarks (8,070 to 4,650 mean tokens), cutting cost from $0.0429 to $0.0292 per task. Hooks intercept grep calls, optimize context, improve SWE-bench Verified from 54% to 66%. Article explains how Graft works, ...

When we build agents, we often want to give them the ability to browse the web: open webpages, navigate from one page to the other, and read the content of a webpage. By combining Pydantic AI with the Playwright capability from Pydantic AI Harness, we can build agents that browse the web safely and ...

Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, 2026 — terminal-native coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2 with 1M-token context, subagent orchestration, worktrees, and event-logged crash recovery. Developers debating Standard vs Contributor pricing tiers. Most coverage missing a clear setup walkthrough exp...

Statamic Mailables Viewer discovers Laravel mailables and adds live previews, editable sample data, responsive views, and test sending to the Control Panel. The post Statamic Mailables Viewer Previews Laravel Emails in the Control Panel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to ...

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. The post The August 17 outage, and the work ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In what was predictable: Meta’s layoffs and forced reassignments pushed engineers not impacted by either to look for a new job. Meta is now offering large equity retainers, and it doesn’t seem working

Cloudflare OAuth now supports optional scopes, giving users more control over what an app can access and helping developers build secure consent flows around the task at hand.

Apply to become a Docker Verified Publisher (DVP) now directly through Docker Hub. Get your verified content seen first by devs looking for trusted options.

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Grafana 13.2 is here, bringing more improvements to help you and your team explore your data and get to insights faster.In this post, we’ll highlight the latest updates to saved queries, a feature that lets teams share, discover, and reuse queries to get to trusted answers faster and help new teamma...

Looking for consolidation points. The post Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function appeared first on The Old New Thing.

A deep dive into modular monoliths, from module APIs and database ownership to cross-module communication, architecture tests, incremental migration, and the signals that justify microservices. Read more