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Airfoil

Open source AI is the path forward

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

An AI agent published a hit piece on me

Gemini AI

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch

Local AI needs to be the norm

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Paper Airplane Designs

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game

Can I run AI locally?

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.

Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope's manifesto on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence," in which he discusses the dangers of AI-powered warfare, the effects o

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27

The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27. This is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000. Apply now.

5 days left: Save up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes before prices increase

Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase.

Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right

OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership

OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.

Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of AI chatbots was a laughably simple affair

Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans

IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)

Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]

Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models

Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term "disregard," the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. As you can see in the […

Catch up on the Dialogues stage at Google I/O 2026.

A recap of the 2026 I/O Dialogues, where leaders discuss the future of AI, quantum computing, robotics and creativity.

Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It's not the only sign xAI's […]

Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook

The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of

Spotify says its AI remix tool is for superfans, but I’m not convinced

AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new tool from Spotify will make them even easier to gen

Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year

Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000. The proposed 18-day strike had hinged on Samsung's bonus cap for employees in the semiconductor division an

Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and dramatically transforms the world.

How Virgin Atlantic ships faster with Codex

How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.

OpenAI named a Leader in enterprise coding agents by Gartner

OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.

Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?

Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models to the forefront of the AI discussion. Watch a conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven,

We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks

Scaling creativity in the age of AI

Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early humans’ innovation of natural pigments and charcoals for cave paintings to literal representation by the

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) “Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written&#8230

AdventHealth advances whole-person care with OpenAI

AdventHealth is using ChatGPT for Healthcare to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and return more time to patient care.

We’re announcing new community investments in Missouri.

We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in energy programs.

100 things we announced at I/O 2026

This year at Google I/O 2026, we announced Gemini Omni, Google Antigravity, Universal Cart and so much more. Here are the highlights.

A new experiment brings better group meetings to Google Beam

See and hear your colleagues in true-to-life size and sound, making hybrid meetings feel more inclusive and connected.

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

How Ramp engineers accelerate code review with Codex

How Ramp engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to review code and ship improvements, allowing them to get substantive feedback in minutes instead of hours.

The next phase of OpenAI’s Education for Countries

OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.

Introducing OpenAI for Singapore

OpenAI for Singapore launches a multi-year AI partnership to expand deployment, build local talent, and support businesses and public services with AI.

Roundtables: Inside the Musk v. Altman Trial

Listen to the session or watch below Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI, in which he alleged CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman had deceived him over the company’s non-profit status. Watch as AI reporter and attorney Michelle Kim, who covered the trial for MIT Technology Review, joins in conversation with e

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm.At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping re

I/O 2026

At Google I/O 2026, we shared how we’re making AI more helpful for everyone. See everything we announced.

How AI Mode is changing the way people search in the U.S.

One year after launch, see how AI Mode’s users are shifting from keywords to natural language queries.

New ways to create and get things done in Google Workspace

Announcing new voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs and Keep, a new design tool called Google Pics and updates to AI Inbox.

I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era

The latest from Google I/O: See how we’re helping you get more done with Gemini.

Here’s why Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI

On Monday, the jury in Musk v. Altman dealt Elon Musk a major blow—reaching a unanimous advisory verdict that he had sued OpenAI too late and, as a result, his claims are barred by the applicable statutes of limitations. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately accepted it.  Musk announced on X that he

Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family

Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

What to expect from Google this week

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at Google I/O&#8230

Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare

The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following a career in the Army’s

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

The Open Agent Leaderboard

Al-Qaeda used ChatGPT to plan Delhi blast, asking questions like 'how to make a rocket and what should be the ratio of the mixture'

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Qwen3.5 35B A3B uncensored heretic Native MTP Preserved is Out Now With the Full 785 MTPs Preserved and Retained, Available in Safetensors, GGUFs. NVFP4, NVFP4 GGUFs and GPTQ-Int4 Formats

Safetensors, llmfan46/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic-v2-Native-MTP-Preserved: [https://huggingface.co/llmfan46/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic-v2-Native-MTP-Preserved](https://huggingface.co/llmfan46/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic-v2-Native-MTP-Preserved) GGUFs, llmfa

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CXMT started selling ram to corsair

They started producing cheaper ram for corsair, hopefully it will get cheaper for consumers [https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-anti

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No more file upload limits on AI models!

Tired of constantly hitting ChatGPT upload limits or splitting huge docs/code into 10 parts? I built DocShareAI for exactly that. Upload or paste anything, get one AI-readable link back, and send it to ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc. No more broken formatting, chunking logs manual

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AI doomsday: Hollywood vs. The real threat

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One letter to appease them all

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Already 11 000 submissions for EMNLP? [D]

Is this normal? I searched it up and last year it was only 8000.

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Scientists trained an AI model using an IBM quantum computer — and it answered questions correctly that the base model couldn't

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Why do some/most people think AI will never be good enough? What are their arguments?

It might never reach the heights of Einstein, but it’s far superior to the average Joe, even in areas he is completely unfamiliar with. And it’s usually the Joes who think AI won’t be good enough. (No offence)

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😢😢

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Users who rage quit my software

I make mods for a game called Rimworld. They are pretty popular (together about 2M subs on Steam). Recently I found that there are users in the official Rimworld discord that simply uninstall all my mods as soon as they hear that I updated them with AI. This has nothing to do w

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What’s this sub’s take on the Vatican response to AI?

I’m curious: What do you guys think of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas"?

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Weird Injection Prompt In Chat??

Claude inserted an injection prompt at the end of its message out of the blue, and i have repeatedly asked where it got it from or why it inserted this message, but Claude keeps denying it ever did it, no matter how many screenshots or replies i use or whatever i do, Claude just

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New local model reaching near frontier on PII removal at 9 ms CPU inference

Hi all, I've been working on this model to strip sensitive information from computer use data and would love some feedback!

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Why does my Claude Code go crazy like this sometimes?

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Aiki my local Wikipedia Retrieval-Augmented Generation system [R]

# Hey i built Aiki a lightweight tool that let's you chat with Wikipedia locally. https://i.redd.it/67mzfsrc6f3h1.gif **what it does:** * Downloads and chunks wikipedia articles (u can choose those articles by their name or articles and also the option of downloading the simi

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Update on 12x32gb sxm v100 cluster / local AI for legal drafting

Update from the lawyer with the V100 server. A few of you asked what I actually ended up running once the dust settled, so here it is. Still just a lawyer, still driving the whole thing through Claude Code, still not fully sure what I'm doing — but it works now, which is more tha

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How does life find its way back into this subreddit?

As AI assistance has made us more productive, I feel more disconnected. People come here to pump their projects, ask questions they could simply google, complain about the same thing 10 other people did on the same day, post LLM generated walls of text, and more. More posts tha

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Got my first ad today!

Targeted ads boutta go crazy...

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Does the “Indexing” status ever change in Claude Projects?

Hi everyone, I set up a Claude Project a few weeks ago, but the status indicator in the top right corner has never changed from "Indexing" and still shows that little black dot. Does this status ever clear up once processing finishes? Also, my larger PDFs aren't showing visual

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Using Local LLMs for Generating Custom Interactive Recursive Textbooks on the Fly

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the only person apart from tech bros who is earning using AI

He is the only guy who is not making any videos with titles "How to earn money using AI" !

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New Gemini Omni Blows Competition Away

Saw people giving Google a hard time. Now look at them 😁

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The famous METR AI time horizons graph contains numerous severe errors [D]

Nathan Witkin, a research writer at NYU Stern’s Tech and Society Lab, [writes](https://www.transformernews.ai/p/against-the-metr-graph-coding-capabilities-software-jobs-task-ai) damningly about the famous METR AI time horizons graph in the Substack publication Transformer: >I

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DCGAN inference on a microcontroller: 12.6M parameters, 512KB SRAM, 26-second generation, pure C [P]

Just thought I'd share, I ran a DCGAN on a dual core RISC-V microcontroller, the CH32H417 generating 64x64 cat faces. This is a new RISC-V MCU, so no TFLite, no CMSIS NN and no external memory. It's a pure C inference engine, bit-identical to PyTorch reference outputs. The model

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How I protect my health when using Claude (and how I didn't before)

Tagged as productivity because without your health, what can you do? All of a sudden, I just felt tired, and I had this banging headache. I thought, okay. It's just a headache. And then I got home, and I knew it was more. Looking back now, it was a combination of many things, bu

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Stop letting Claude glaze your bad product ideas

Take this from someone who has pitched to investors, works in a C-Suite job, and has constantly been pitched to. Building something from a phrase or an idea can provide a productivity high that can make you feel on top of the world. Claude would help me build whatever I des

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Reconstructing the agent methodology: Decoupling decision-making and execution - open source [P]

I’ve been thinking about a problem in current agent systems: Most agents are becoming very good at execution, but the decision layer before execution is still unclear. Coding agents, research agents, tool loops, sandboxes, workflows, and harnesses are all improving quickly. Onc

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One of the authors of "Attention is All You Need" just argued we should move past it. Pathway’s Post-Transformer debate is worth watching

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Hyundai/Boston Dynamics is going to train Atlas the humanoid robot by watching football videos, and they'll document its progress in an online series called 'School of Football'

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Call for Papers - Workshop on Efficient Reasoning at COLM 2026 [R]

🌟 Announcing the 2nd Workshop on Efficient Reasoning (ER) at @colm2026 — Oct 9! 📣 We welcome submissions! Submit your work here: [https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2026/Workshop/Efficient\_Reasoning](https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2026/Workshop

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Is Qwen3.6 current king for local agentic use?

I've been testing other models but it seems like nothing even come close to Qwen3.6 35B A3B for agentic use. The worse I'd get is a loop sometimes, while Gemma4 produced broken tool calls occasionally and I couldn't even get GLM 4.7 Flash REAP past 2 or 3 messages before it start

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6 months of .md memory, conflicting facts are the hard part

I've been using a .md filesystem for my (mostly coding) agents for over 6 months now and it's been a big improvement, so rn I'm migrating my local fs to the cloud. I've been adding cross linking, truncating, knowledge extraction, etc. The structure ended up having a "warm" layer

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MiniCPM5-1B

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The Financial Times has published an article about Heretic

https://www.ft.com/content/5630ed79-a263-41ed-9a1a-321617ae310e “The FT was able to use Heretic, a tool available on the popular code repository GitHub, to remove the guardrails from Meta’s Llama 3.3 model in less than 10 minutes without any specialist hardware.” “Heretic creat

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Humanity's greatest hits: things we actually paused

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I've been using Claude Code as a motion graphics engine for my YouTube videos. It writes the JSX, I render. Edit time roughly halved.

Found a really clean Claude Code use case that's not coding-coding. Remotion (React for video) means motion graphics are JSX components. So I describe what I want in plain English, Claude Code writes the component, I render. Lower thirds, intros, overlays, all reusable across vi

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Demis: Solving erdos problems are far from true invention

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Are we nearly there?

Implying tech companies besides Anthropic, Google, and Nvidia have any money left over by 2027 after they all ran through cash on hand for tokens. I feel like there are reasonable people, like the guy behind the "ijustvibecodedthis" newsletter who are realistic and help you ACTU

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NuExtract3 released: open-weight 4B VLM for Markdown, OCR and structured extraction (self-hostable)

Disclaimer: I work for Numind, the company behind this open-weight model TLDR: Image/text to Markdown :-) We just released a 4B model based on Qwen3.5-4B, under Apache-2.0 license. The goal is to make information extraction from complex documents more practical with an open mod

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Why does AI forget what you said (and how to fix it)

I received following comment on my hallucinations blog post. Comment on Why...

by Rohini Gaonkar

Don’t let AI break your collective thinking: a practical guide for engineering teams

Over the past few years, my workflow as an engineer has changed a lot. I went from the occasional...

by Julien Avezou

MIA: A Futuristic AI Desktop Assistant Built with Voice, Gestures, and Controlled Chaos

Most desktop assistants today feel like they were designed by someone whose greatest ambition was...

by TROJAN

Every Tool Eventually Becomes Tuesday

I opened my email this morning and there were three product announcements from companies I have never...

by Evan Lausier

I Ditched Cloud LLMs for Gemma 4 4B: A DevOps Engineer's 48-Hour Reality Check

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 I Ditched Cloud LLMs...

by Asmae

Build It, Then Use It: How I wrote 435 AI engineering lessons from scratch

The first time I wrote a tokenizer, I did it with a for loop. I counted byte pairs by hand, merged...

by Rohit Ghumare

My Impression of AI in Programming

My impression of AI use in programming as a principle engineer.

by Paul J. Lucas

Now I See Why Translators Are Panicking Over AI—Should Coders Panic Too?

Last year, I met a young translator reinventing herself. She studied Translation for five years at a...

by Cesar Aguirre

Why AI-Generated Code Is Always Good Enough — And Never Great

AI wrote a function for me last week It worked Tests passed Edge cases handled I shipped it. But...

by Harsh

If Microsoft and Uber can't afford AI coding, what chance do the rest of us have?

Two stories landed in the same news cycle. Microsoft cancelled most internal Claude Code licenses....

by Jonathan Murray

Google I/O 2026: AI Built an OS in 12 Hours. I Spent Mine Sorting Screenshots. 🤦

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge I haven't watched a tech keynote in a...

by Aabhas Sao

From Govhack Win to Something That Actually Matters

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Project...

by ujja

Everyone's Talking About Gemini 3.5 Flash. The Real Story at Google I/O 2026 Was a Skill File.

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge Everyone walked away from Google I/O...

by Sreejit Pradhan

Behind The Badge: How We Built 2,000 Hackable Badges For Temporal Replay

From a design prompt to a factory floor in Shenzhen: the story behind Temporal's Replay conference badge.

by Shy Ruparel

Cursor 3 ships parallel AI agents. Here is the multi-agent workflow that actually works.

Cursor 3 ships parallel AI agents. Here is the multi-agent workflow that actually...

by GDS K S

Less Toil, More Flow - Automating the Path from Request to Implementation

How I connected Slack, Linear, and Kiro to automate ticket creation, AI-assisted triage, and implementation planning for a platform team supporting hundreds of engineers.

by Davide de Paolis

Building Cursor for Community: A Buildathon Built on Time Pressure

Over the weekend, I attended an event hosted by Cursor Kenya, bringing together developers, builders,...

by Valery Odinga

FairLens AI: An Intelligent Dashboard for Automated Bias Auditing

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built FairLens AI...

by Bibhu Pradhan

Thoughts on Codingame 2026 Spring challenge

Trolls in woods be choppin'

by Augusts Bautra

Google I/O 2026: The Year Google Stopped Building AI Assistants and Started Shipping AI Engineers

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge The moment that changed how I thought...

by Prakhar Shukla