Category: tech > ai

Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol lets AI agents pay via HTTP 402 responses, supporting both fiat and stablecoins. Submitted to IETF as a standard.

81,000 Claude users across 159 countries reveal the dominant desire is not speed but freedom to reclaim time for family and personal growth.

LinkedIn's editor shipped iOS apps to the App Store with zero coding experience, using a dual-agent Claude Code workflow for building and review.

Simon Willison breaks down how coding agents work: an LLM in a loop with tools, token caching, and reasoning modes. Simpler than you think.

Most Claude Code Skills fail at triggering, not execution. Writing a specific description with explicit trigger keywords matters most.

OpenViking organizes AI agent context as a virtual filesystem with tiered loading, cutting tokens 11x while raising task completion by 15 points.

Simon Willison defines agentic engineering as building software with coding agents in a loop, distinct from unreviewed vibe coding.

Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer 1M token context at standard pricing, with no long-context premium and improved retrieval accuracy.

CanIRun.ai estimates which AI models your hardware can run locally. The real sweet spot for local models is structured data tasks, not coding.

Anthropic offers 13 free learning resources for Claude, including Agent Skills, Claude 101, and AI Fluency courses for beginners.

Context Mode achieves 94-100% context reduction per tool call, extending typical Claude Code sessions from 30 minutes to about 3 hours.

CoPaw is a self-hostable AI assistant from Alibaba that connects to messaging platforms and supports local LLMs via Ollama with no API key needed.

Anthropic launched a free Claude certification course on Skilljar covering Claude and Claude Code in depth. It will move to $99 soon.

A multi-agent LLM workflow uses Opus for architecture, Sonnet for coding, and Codex/Gemini for review. Different models catch different failures.

Claude turns complex topics into interactive diagrams when prompted with 'make me understand this interactively.' Works on the free plan.

Claude converts voice-dictated brainstorming notes into interactive visual diagrams inside the chat. Works with any dictation tool on the free plan.

NanoClaw replaces OpenClaw's 500k lines of code with a handful of files and hypervisor-level container isolation per AI agent.

A concise ruleset for AI agent workflow orchestration covering plan mode, subtask strategy, self-improvement loops, and verification discipline.

The Playwright CLI is roughly 500% more token-efficient than the Playwright MCP for browser automation in Claude Code, with the same capabilities.

Pydantic AI brings type-safe, validated structured outputs to LLM agent development in Python with automatic validation retries and tool calling.