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Anthropic: Prompt Caching as Production Architecture — The most significant engineering disclosure from Anthropic this year. Claude Code's static-first prefix structure, Plan Mode as callable functions, Tool Search with defer_loading, and compaction maintaining identical system prompts — all designed around caching economics. The key insight: at $0.30/M vs $3.00/M for cached vs uncached reads, caching isn't optimization — it's the business model.
Bargury: "Agent Compromised by Agent to Deploy Agent" — The definitive Clinejection post-mortem. Full attack chain analysis, timeline, and the framing that will define this attack class. Essential reading for anyone with AI bots in CI/CD pipelines.
Praetorian: MCP Server Security — The Hidden AI Attack Surface — Practical MCP security assessment with server chaining demonstrations and the critical uvx typosquatting discovery. Accompanied by the MCPHammer open-source testing tool.
Edward Donner: "AI Coder: Vibe Coder to Agentic Engineer" — The best structured learning resource for the vibe-to-agentic transition. 3-week course covering Claude Code deeply (slash commands, checkpoints, MCP, skills, plugins, Ralph Loops) alongside Copilot, Cursor, Codex. Teaches the PEV loop (Plan, Execute, Verify) as canonical workflow.
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The IDE market is fragmenting, and this week drew the sharpest lines yet. Cursor 3 launched as a rebuilt agent-orchestration platform in Rust and TypeScript, replacing the VS Code fork with an Agents Window for dispatching and monitoring multiple AI coding agents. Anysphere hi...
Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar disclosed that Claude Code treats cache hit rate drops as production incidents — the entire product architecture was designed around prompt caching constraints. Plan Mode exists as callable functions (not tool permission toggles) specifically...
Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
Three independent sources — Simon Willison at the Pragmatic Summit, blog.tedivm.com's coding agent guide, and Anthropic's 2026 Trends Report — converged in March 2026 on the same conclusion: the highest-leverage skill in AI-assisted development is no longer prompt engineering...
Three vendors. Same quarter. Same direction. That's not a coincidence, it's a pricing correction. paddo.dev published an analysis today examining how GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, and Cursor are restructuring their commercial models simultaneously. GitHub Copilot is moving from f...
Pomeroy v1, posted to Show HN September 8, is a menu-bar app that holds the system permissions and serves nine native apps (Mail, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Contacts, iMessage, Maps, Shortcuts, Weather) over MCP to 20+ clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS...
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