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Boris Cherny sharing Claude Code tips on a glowing code editor screen
AI Hardware

Boris Cherny's 15 Claude Code Secrets: From Code Monkey to AI Wizard

Stuck in the shallow end of AI coding? Boris Cherny's 15 tips from Claude Code's creator turn your prompts into powerhouse code generators.

4 min read 19 hours ago
Illustration of LangChain skills framework enhancing AI coding agents with expert prompts
AI Hardware

LangChain's New 'Skills' for AI Coders: Smarter Agents or Vendor Lock-In?

Picture your AI coding bot choking on a loop. LangChain's new Skills framework claims to fix that with on-demand expertise. I'm not buying it yet.

4 min read 4 days, 4 hours ago
AI agent strapped into a safety harness amid chaotic code and guardrails
AI Hardware

Harness Engineering: AI's Latest Fix for Agents That Keep Crashing

78% of enterprise AI agents bombed in production last year. Enter 'harness engineering'—the buzz du jour claiming to strap safety belts on rogue bots.

3 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
Sleek animated video composition generated by Codex in Remotion, featuring dynamic slides and cosmic effects
AI Business

Codex Unlocks Remotion: AI Videos from Chat Prompts, No Claude Needed

Picture this: your wildest video idea, scripted and animated by AI in minutes. No Pro skills required. Codex and Remotion just made creators out of everyone.

3 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
OpenAI logo with shield icon and teen silhouette on digital background
AI Business

OpenAI's Teen Safety Prompts: A Patch for GPT's Wild West?

Developers got a new toy from OpenAI: prompt templates to shield teens from AI harms. Everyone thought safety meant broad filters—turns out, it's DIY for now.

3 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
Comparison chart of RAG, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering costs and use cases
AI Hardware

Why AI Teams Squander Millions on Fine-Tuning Instead of Free Prompts

You're an AI engineer staring at a sluggish model. Do you tweak prompts for free, bolt on RAG for fresh data, or burn cash fine-tuning? Most pick wrong.

3 min read 1 week, 2 days ago
Illustration of a lightbulb shattering over an AI brain, symbolizing false enlightenment
AI Hardware

AI's 'Brutally Simple' Hack? Total Bust

Promising to unlock deep understanding with a few prompts? Yeah, right. This so-called hack is just AI smoke and mirrors.

3 min read 1 week, 4 days ago
MiniMax M2.7 model interface displaying self-generated code improvements in a Shenzhen data center glow
AI Hardware

MiniMax M2.7 Rewrote Its Own Code: The Self-Building AI Dissected

An AI model in Shenzhen servers that bootstrapped its own upgrade. Here's the exact how-to from docs that swapped out rivals in real coding stacks.

4 min read 1 week, 5 days ago
Split image of a confident AI-prompting junior dev failing at a bug versus a thoughtful human debugging with logic
AI Business

AI Coders Can't Debug: The Junior Wipeout of 2026

Your kid's bootcamp grad? Might code via vibes, not brains. Bugs hit, and they're lost—welcome to the junior dev purge.

3 min read 2 weeks ago
GitHub stars exploding on Anthropic Claude Skills repository
AI Hardware

Claude Skills: Fancy Wrappers for Your Endless Prompt Tweaking

Your daily AI grind just got a GitHub repo. Claude Skills vow to tame custom tasks — but are they more than dressed-up copy-paste prompts?

3 min read 2 weeks ago
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