Editor lock-in is fake, agent lock-in is the real bill
I have changed code editors three times in five years and lost something every time. Snippets, key bindings, the reflex that knows which corner of the screen holds your files. None of…
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I almost merged an AI patch that broke my own repo
A green CI run tells you the tests passed. It does not tell you the agent understood the project. A recent New Stack write-up makes the gap sharper: it is now the…
Linux users finally get the FSMonitor speedup that macOS already had
Git 2.55 has a quiet feature that the people who need it most have been waiting on for years. If you push commits into a real codebase, the kind that has hundreds…
Why Your AI Agent Should Stop Playing Telephone With Itself
Why Your AI Agent Should Stop Playing Telephone With Itself Imagine you ask Copilot CLI to rename a variable. Instead of doing it, it spawns a helper agent that searches the codebase,…
GitHub Universe 2026 is the Only Conference Where Agents Meet Actual Code
GitHub Universe 2026 is the Only Conference Where Agents Meet Actual Code Every week there is another AI announcement promising to change how you write code. Most of those announcements fade into…