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No. 011 · 14 October 2026

The bottleneck moved, and it is not the code.

Anthropic’s Scion, an 11-year-old Rust bug, an AI bot flood and a Mac transcriber.

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No. 011 · 14 Oct 2026The bottleneck moved, and it is not the code.Anthropic’s Scion, an 11-year-old Rust bug, an AI bot flood and a Mac transcriber.
No. 010 · 13 Oct 2026Your coding agent may be running while you are not.The Codex daemon, QGIS banning LLM code, the Zod scare and Cache Tax.
No. 009 · 12 Oct 2026He reran the Rust-vs-Elixir benchmark. Both lost.Agent-written rewrites, Chrome Relay, Pensieve and Agent Standup.
No. 008 · 11 Oct 2026The agents kept trying to edit the test.Talorys, a decision model, MOLT Sinai, a decompilation oracle and InnovationEval.
No. 007 · 10 Oct 2026The runtime has a one-year clock now.Deno, DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, bigarrow, Decision-1, Tabs to Trails and MXC.
No. 006 · 9 Oct 2026He asked for six hours. It stopped after 85 minutes.Invisible Cities, Whistle, OSC 7501, Styx, rGPU and LLMSchema.
No. 005 · 8 Oct 2026Eight million little questions. One cheaper model.Haiku, Intelligent UI, Docker Agent, REA and verification honesty.
No. 004 · 7 Oct 2026The trillion-parameter cat has a bill.Mistral, openTPU, EmbeddingGemma 2, Jev diagnosis and Berth.
No. 003 · 6 Oct 2026Wikipedia’s operator says OpenAI’s agents were in its sandboxes.Beam, the magnet claim, llama.cpp on a PS5, and a graph database with time travel.
No. 002 · 5 Oct 2026Agents spend money while you sleep. Cap it.Hard budget caps, Strata on a gaming PC, and documentation instead of memory plugins.
No. 001 · 4 Oct 2026A maintainer says no robots. A dev got 12 PRs overnight.COSMIC’s AI PR ban, the “done means” trick, and three tools almost nobody has noticed.
No. 000 · 3 Oct 2026Claude Code mods took over the feedDoom as a mod, the official You should know plugin, and the tools nobody is talking about yet.

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