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At the Amsterdam/online summit (June 11–15), Dodds walked through "How I Build Web Applications in 2026," building a real full-stack app live in Cursor (GitNation). The value is in the specifics of how a testing-and-quality-focused educator sequences AI into production work, a practitioner's workflow, not a hype reel. Useful counterweight to the "coding is going away" framing, and it pairs well with the Willison piece above.
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Kent C. Dodds presented at GitNation arguing developers now take on PM, product, and team lead roles by orchestrating multiple AI agents rather than writing code directly. His workflow uses Cursor with MCP tools and BugBot for code review. From one of React's most respected ed...
swyx's synthesis of the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 is the clearest framing I've read of where this all goes. The discipline moved from building agents to engineering the harness around them. Lilian Weng (now at Thinking Machines Lab) reframed her whole practice as "harness...
A free-alpha macOS app plus GitHub extension and MCP server that answers "why" questions from a repo's own pull requests and issues, shows the evidence, and says nobody wrote this down when nobody did (Icarus). The insight underneath: merged PRs leave commits but refused ones...
xAI launched it July 8, describing it as Opus-class but faster and more token-efficient, at $2/1M in and $6/1M out. Trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with RL over hundreds of thousands of multi-step software engineering tasks, and trained *alongside Cursor*...
@ai-sdk/harness-cursor connects Cursor to the HarnessAgent interface through @ai-sdk/harness-acp over the Agent Client Protocol (Vercel). Instantiating is two lines and swapping the harness value changes which agent runs without touching application code. Coverage now spans Cl...
The flat-rate era for AI coding tools ended today. Not with a whimper. With invoice shock. GitHub Copilot officially moved from fixed monthly subscriptions to usage-based "AI Credits" billing on June 1, 2026. Code completions remain free, but agent mode, chat, and premium mode...
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