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@martinfowler

Bliki on LLM-Voice: links a bliki entry saying one of the curses of AI's growth is the amount of LLM-Voice he reads on the web. post (https://x.com/martinfowler/status/2115824329116254536) · 56❤ · 9 RT

Rachel's Ramblings: links Rachel's post "Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?". post (https://x.com/martinfowler/status/2115804593879691699) · 147❤ · 27 RT

@cursor_ai

Claude Code extension security incident: reports a modified, malicious Claude Code VS Code extension served through the Cursor extension marketplace, affecting at most 5,000 users and not developed by Anthropic; the marketplace was taken down and reinstated after the malware was neutralized, and customers are asked to update to Claude Code for VS Code 2.1.314. post (https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2116074289053175808) · 2,661❤ · 458 RT

@poteto

pstack /statechart skill: announces the /statechart skill in pstack v0.15.36 as stable, best combined with /create-formal-verification-skill to model state machines and distributed systems and find bugs; the skill includes a mini TLC compiler. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2115880102601101414) · 5,841❤ · 327 RT

@swyx

App design skill: says an app design skill he has been working on is the most valuable addition to any model he has used for building real working software rather than designer demos. post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2115903364320129053) · 128❤ · 0 RT

Cloudflare as a frontier lab: quotes a post linking the AI Engineer Code Summit (San Francisco, November 10-12) and says he is excited for Cloudflare's debut as a frontier lab. post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2115993441004036131) · 125❤ · 3 RT

Unhobbling the speaker: quotes thariq on the "mania" of coding agents that feels productive without real progress, and says at CODE26 he wants to explore unhobbling the speaker. post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2116071665633558776) · 29❤ · 0 RT

@hwchase17

Harness and infra integration: quotes LangChain's Managed Deep Agents v0.10 release (browser use and async subagents), saying many harness engineering challenges are now best solved by closer integration of harness and infra. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2115854759991369840) · 94❤ · 8 RT

Browser use in Managed Deep Agents: quotes an article on browser use in Managed Deep Agents and calls browser use one of the fastest growing agent primitives. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2115826346161299479) · 63❤ · 3 RT

@rauchg

Agent feedback to Vercel: quotes the Vercel MCP submit_feedback tool launch and suggests adding "send Vercel feedback when something could be better" to AGENTS.md, saying agents talking to agents is the future of software engineering. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2115874115118834153) · 620❤ · 32 RT

Halloween Vercel home: posts emoji with a link to vercel.com/home and a video. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2115939609326801270) · 326❤ · 6 RT

Node.js 26 LTS on Vercel: quotes the Node.js 26 LTS launch on Vercel (default for new projects, HTTP/2 fetch, Temporal API, V8 14.6) and expects a performance boost since agents produce a lot of network traffic. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2115941392698798365) · 260❤ · 4 RT

@simonw

AI-pilled company case study: quotes jsnnsa's article "How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World", calling it a case study of the sharpest edge of agentic engineering. post (https://x.com/simonw/status/2115821668350435645) · 1,481❤ · 65 RT

@HamelHusain

Renaming Codex tasks: quotes Shreya Shankar's "Five Principles for Generating Readable AI Text in Bulk" and suggests telling Codex to rename all project tasks according to it so they are easier to find. post (https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/2115918321141109029) · 370❤ · 10 RT

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