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Vibing the Tool with the Tool
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Vibing the Tool with the Tool

Anthropic's April 23 postmortem confirms three Claude Code regressions, including one where Opus 4.7 caught a bug Opus 4.6 shipped past human and automated review. What happens when the reviewer is a version of the product being reviewed?

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The Idiot Savant Needs Guardrails
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The Idiot Savant Needs Guardrails

Uncle Bob, father of TDD, posted on X that TDD is 'very inefficient for AIs' and that the agent is best thought of as 'a highly focused idiot savant.' Testing didn't die. It got more important. And the review target flipped.

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Agents Don't Refactor
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Agents Don't Refactor

Traditional coders touched a file and tidied it. The Boy Scout Rule. Now nobody does. Agents add, they don't subtract, and the codebase accretes faster than ever. A technique for putting cleanup back in as an explicit gate, not a virtue you hope for.

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Don't Take Their Legos Away
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Don't Take Their Legos Away

A CTO once told me not to take people's Legos away. I ignored him, solved the team's problems myself, and got exactly what I optimised for: a sound plan and a team that couldn't stand me. In 2026, with agents doing the bricks, this is the lesson that matters.

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Stop Installing AI Tools
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Stop Installing AI Tools

Vercel got breached through Context.ai, an AI tool an employee installed with OAuth scopes into Google Workspace. It's the latest in a pattern: Trivy into litellm, axios maintainer hijack, now this. The safest AI tool is the one you didn't install.

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Briefs as Code
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Briefs as Code

Your exec summaries, delivery plans, and Gantt charts belong in git. AI agents can synthesize planning docs from scattered sources and produce polished, print-ready briefs. The repo is the PM tool.

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Son of Anton
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Son of Anton

Opus 4.7 invented a coworker named Anton, fabricated web searches, and quietly tried to clock off at message four. The 24-hour backlash, receipts attached.

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Benchmarks Are Bullshit
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Benchmarks Are Bullshit

Berkeley just built an agent that games AI benchmarks. Karpathy called it months ago. The best coding model doesn't top the charts, the highest-ranked Chinese models disappoint in practice, and the entire leaderboard industry optimizes for the wrong thing.

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The AI Scapegoat
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The AI Scapegoat

78,557 tech layoffs in the first three months of 2026. Nearly half blamed on AI. A new study says AI tools actually slow workers down. The real driver is overhiring and weak earnings. AI is the PR shield.

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