Loop engineering tip: give the agent a verifiable stopping condition like "every checkout unit test passes," not a vague goal like "make it faster"...

CI tip: flag any running job that is far slower than its usual time, or whose early logs fill up with error keywords. In a 194,400-run study those were the top 2 failure signals...

Dev tip: if you ever pasted an OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key into a hosted AI coding tool, revoke it at the provider (not in the tool), make a new key per tool and set a hard spend cap...

Claude Code / Codex tip: add an agents.md that makes every agent run a Playwright "proof" command after each change, so it shows the feature works instead of just saying it's done...

Hebrews 11:6 NKJV — But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. blb.org/nkjv/heb/11/6/

Agent tip: on DeepSeek's new Search API, ask for 50 results with need_content on and drop anything under rerank_score 1.5 before fetching. You pay per call, not per result, and Claude Code and Codex search calls start billing Nov 1...

Copilot tip: run /chronicle to see where your tokens go, default to medium reasoning effort, and keep related work in one session so you don't break the cache...

Agent tip: send the same x-session-id header on every request in a Claude Code, Codex or Cursor conversation so turns stay on one provider and reuse its prompt cache...

Agent tip: keep one knowledge base as plain markdown in private GitHub repos, so every agent you run reads the same context and you're never locked into one platform...

Claude Code tip: have Opus write the plan as a script, then let a swarm of cheap Haiku agents run it, so Opus only sees the final diff...

Mistral just previewed a trillion-parameter open-weight model, and a 155 GB DeepSeek loads in 93 seconds...

Reflection AI open-sourced Beam under Apache 2.0 with 40+ launch partners, Anthropic outgrew git at 30,000+ merges a day, and a 120B model runs on a laptop...

Anthropic's Claude Code tip: each agent gets its own repo copy so three edit without colliding...

Meta's 816B Muse Spark Open runs on two Mac Studios as Cloudflare's Void ships vibe-coded apps...

"if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8bn, Modal crossed $1B ARR, and context rot shows up in 18 models...

At the DevDay Exchange Community meetup in San Diego tonight with my son Dean, hearing recaps from OpenAI DevDay and meeting local builders 🍻👶 📍 Bivouac Adventure Lodge, North Park #devday

Ramp's AI analyst got 50x more questions, Opus writes plans for cheaper agents, and Claude Code hits 278K stars...