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- How developers organise and maintain agent skills
An Ask HN discussion describes skills as repeatable workflows, with shared repositories, human review, behavioural tests and updates across coding tools.
- The File That Fixes Your AI's Code Style
Fabien Sanglard wrote down the code-style corrections he kept repeating to his AI coding agent, and put them in the file the tool loads at startup. The value isn't the trick — it's how specific each rule is.
- From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
Who's allowed to build software has changed hands three or four times in a decade. Grok Build is the latest handoff — and the security data on what it produces is not subtle.
- You Feel Faster. Are You?
A randomized controlled study found AI tools made experienced developers 19% slower. They thought they'd been sped up by 20%.
- Your Code Review Process Isn't Built for This Volume
AI-generated code is hitting production faster than review processes can absorb it — that's a supervision problem, not an AI problem.
- Codex Plugins Are a Confession About Who's Winning
OpenAI launched 20 plugins to push Codex beyond coding. The move tells you everything about where the developer ecosystem actually lives.
- The Government Just Told You to Stop Vibe Coding Without Guardrails
The UK's NCSC warns that AI-generated code is creating security risks faster than teams can catch them. The fix isn't stopping — it's checking.
- Your AI Just Learned to Approve Its Own Actions
Claude Code's new auto mode sits between handholding and chaos. It's the first honest attempt at solving the autonomy problem in developer tools.
- Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
Mozilla's cq gives AI coding agents dynamic, evolving context — formalizing what power users already figured out through trial and error.
- The Productivity Numbers Are Real. The Quality Question Isn't Settled.
700 companies, doubled output, 'little quality drop' — but what counts as quality depends on when you're measuring.
- GitHub Added Secret Scanning to Its MCP Server. This Is What Good Security Integration Looks Like.
GitHub's MCP server now lets AI coding agents scan code for secrets through the same protocol they're already using. No extra tooling. No separate workflow.
- DeepSeek Didn't Just Train Better—They Changed How Transformers Think
The mHC architecture isn't about scaling harder. It's about thinking smarter.
- SoN 34: What Will You Vibe Code Next Year?
December 23rd, 2025 Dear Reader, What Will You Vibe Code Next Year? Back in July, I wrote about vibe coding and the beginner’s mind — that Zen…
- SoN 28: How (and Why) to Build A Voice Agent
November 12th, 2025 Dear Reader, I took a gamble this week and decided to put my AI Writing Field Guide up on Product Hunt today. If you'd like to…
- You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Start Making Things with AI
July 4th, 2025 Dear Reader, In a tech world obsessed with frameworks, best practices, and shipping at scale, it’s easy to forget that sometimes…
- Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
May 23rd, 2025 Dear Reader, This week I’ve been immersed in the exhilarating chaos of Hack the Future – a 48-hour climate resilience hackathon in…