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  • angelcreative
    AJ ✝️ 💚🧡 (@angelcreative) reported

    @uiux_hamad My design team is leaving Figma gradually, in fact we are using Cursor and GitHub as main design tools now, in the past two months the usage of Figma drops 33% and it will keep going down up to 30% more to a 63% in total and maybe more

  • cryptoupdate_io
    Crypto Update IO 🚀 (@cryptoupdate_io) reported

    @CryptoPatel Hsiao-Wei’s exit follows a 30% drop in EF-funded GitHub commits YTD (per Santiment). The real shift? Funds now focus 60% on L2 R&D vs 30% in 2022. We track this daily—breaking it down in our quarterly reports. Follow for the data before the narrat...

  • MyWestLord
    West Lord (@MyWestLord) reported

    A GitHub repo with just 571 stars handed Claude the ability to test its own code, and it took 185 seconds to install. It’s called auto browser, and it quietly killed the most annoying part of my workflow. Until now, every time Claude or Codex built me a WordPress plugin, I was the middleman who had to load it, click around, hunt for the broken part, and report back like a human bug tracker. Now a local WordPress sandbox runs on my machine, and auto browser sits between the agent and the screen, so the agent ships a plugin, opens the browser, tests it, catches the error, and patches it before I ever look. The first plugin threw an error, but the second installed clean and ran on its own across 2 fresh workspaces. I write 1 instruction file pointing the agent at the sandbox, paste it into every session, and the whole loop closes without me touching anything. The agent stopped asking me what broke, because now it just checks itself. The middleman was me, and now it’s gone.

  • MoezZhioua
    Moez Zhioua (@MoezZhioua) reported

    Everything is an AI agent now, even deterministic problems with clear and stable steps. The other day, I saw a Claude skill on GitHub that was basically this: if this happens, run step one. if that happens, run step two. else, run step three. And somehow, this was called an agent. That is ridiculous. Why would you give fixed logic to something that can hallucinate, skip steps, or decide it just doesn't feel like working today? Most business processes do not need a genius robot. They need the boring thing to happen correctly every time. - Lead comes in, assign it. - Invoice arrives, check it. - Customer cancels, send the recovery message. - Form gets submitted, update the CRM. Most AI agents today could be replaced with a simple script, a clean workflow, or one person finally admitting the process was not that smart to begin with. Agents are useful when the next step is genuinely unclear. But when the steps are stable, predictable, and repeated every day? You do not need an agent. You need automation.

  • RodmanAi
    Leonard Rodman (@RodmanAi) reported

    One developer got tired of his laptop sounding like a jet engine. So he rebuilt desktop apps. Slack: 524 MB → 8 MB Discord: 265 MB → 9 MB ChatGPT: 260 MB → 9 MB Why? Because most "desktop apps" are just websites packaged with an entire copy of Chrome. In 2022, Chinese developer tw93 built Pake in Rust to fix it. Today: • 50,000+ GitHub stars • MIT open source • Native apps under 10 MB • One command turns any website into a desktop app He didn't raise money. He didn't start a company. He just deleted hundreds of megabytes of bloat with code. That's what shipping looks like.

  • cryptoupdate_io
    Crypto Update IO 🚀 (@cryptoupdate_io) reported

    @CRYPTOKRALI3 Hsiao-Wei’s exit aligns with EF’s recent sharp decline in GitHub contributions—down 35% YoY per Electric Capital’s data. We track this daily; latest reports show a 12% drop in ETH core dev activity despite all the ‘decentralization’ hype.

  • lixinbao_X
    李新宝 (@lixinbao_X) reported

    Just watched KK's technique. Damn. Absolute game-changer. Install 7 skills in Codex. Writing, images, covers, PPTs. Full pipeline, done. The principle is dead simple. Break the workflow into 7 parts. One skill per part. Only do one thing. Step 1 Open GitHub, find a repo. Copy the link locally. Create a project folder to save it. Step 2 Write the skill description. Input three things. What it does. What the input is. Output and acceptance criteria. Step 3 Run it and find the bottlenecks. Where it stalls Create a new skill and break it down. Don't let one skill Do 7 things it's bad at. This works for writers, Xiaohongshu creators, WeChat pub runners, Video script writers. How many skills you got installed? Have you tried it yet?

  • _xjdr
    xjdr (@_xjdr) reported

    @tolly_xyz @xlr8harder Sorry about that. I'll take a look. Looking with GitHub or Gmail should work but track this down and fix it asap

  • xovionai
    Xovion Labs (@xovionai) reported

    Microsoft just hired AWS to run GitHub. AI demand broke Azure's forecast. From the leaked planning docs: • 2025 Copilot commits: 1B. 2026 projection: 14B • GitHub now does 1.4B commits per month • Copilot error rates peaked at 21% • Planned 10x Azure expansion became 30x in 4 months Owning the data center stops mattering when your own AI floods it. Investors already filed a Copilot disclosure suit.

  • RafalWachol
    Rafal Wachol 💙 (@RafalWachol) reported

    @itometeam @tsuyoshi_chujo I was playing with it and started creating issues on GitHub when I noticed something.

  • StackCurious
    Dave Oak (@StackCurious) reported

    the pattern i see: maintainers burn out because they treat open source like a business that failed to monetize, instead of treating it like a library. once you're answering github issues like customer support, you've already lost. the fix isn't sustainability models—it's saying no earlier. #solodev #shipping

  • trifon_getsov
    Trifon Getsov (@trifon_getsov) reported

    @thdxr Top down works until the individual outgrows it. GitHub didn't win because companies adopted it first. It won because developers wouldn't go back once they'd used it.

  • AiChinaNews
    aichina.news (@AiChinaNews) reported

    Today's batch from the Chinese AI ecosystem is a masterclass in low-yield release volume. Across 21 items in a five-hour window, the dominant pattern is Ascend-platform mirrors of well-known open-source models, repeated and repackaged as if they were fresh launches. The signal-to-noise ratio is punishing, but a few functional tools did receive real updates worth noting. The one item that earns its place without a caveat is the AI Text Anti-Detection Framework update (GitHub). It's a toolkit that refines machine-generated prose to slip past automated detectors—a cat-and-mouse game that keeps plaguing EDU gatekeepers and content-flagging pipelines. The new release sharpens processing logic and stability; if you're in the business of testing detector robustness or smoothing synthetic output for non-malicious uses, it's a blunt but effective spanner. Quality 6 is fair. Alongside it, two Chinese-localization projects got documentation refreshes: the Claude Code x OpenClaw Guide (also GitHub) and a standalone Claude Code Chinese project. These are practical handbooks for Mandarin-speaking developers who want to integrate Anthropic's coding tool with the OpenClaw agent framework. The updates are routine—translation string alignment, configuration path adjustments—but for engineers inside China's firewall, they reduce friction. Nothing groundbreaking, but they signal continuing demand for Chinese-language wrappers around Western CLI tools. On the medical NLP front, MedTextCN debuted as an open-source repository of curated Chinese medical datasets with preprocessing utilities. The pitch is honest: it saves researchers the drudgery of hunting down scattered corpora for clinical NER, classification, and QA tasks. The problem is that the quality score sits at 4/10 and the release ships without any benchmarked model, so you get a starter collection, not a solved pipeline. Use it to bootstrap, but keep expectations modest. Now the flood: Huawei's Ascend AI ecosystem platform (Modelers) added no fewer than five wav2vec2 checkpoints and two T5 efficient variants in this window, each announced with hyperbolic language. The articles proclaim "high-precision English ASR now available," "a powerful multilingual foundation," and "new home for multilingual ASR." In reality, these are plain mirrors of Facebook's wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self, wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli, wav2vec2-large-10k-voxpopuli, and Google's t5-efficient-xl-nl28 and t5-efficient-xl-nl6. There is zero evidence of Ascend-specific compilation, quantization, or NPU benchmarking. They're the same model weights you can get from Hugging Face, just re-hosted. If you're a developer inside China who can't easily reach foreign repositories, this is a convenience play—and that's the only honest angle. If you can already download the originals, you've lost nothing. A couple of additional Wav2Vec2 uploads (large-960h in two separate listings) got described as "a solid baseline" and "a battle-tested ASR model now available for Chinese developers." Again, no Ascend performance data. Calling a re-upload a "significant leap forward"—as one summary does—is exactly the kind of platform marketing that erodes trust. The T5 efficient checkpoints carried the same overblown framing, though one footnote is worth preserving: the t5-efficient-xl-nl6 model is under Apache 2.0, a genuinely permissive commercial license. That's useful information buried under fluff. If you need a lightweight text-to-text transformer, the NL6 variant exists and it's legally safe, but the article adds nothing beyond what Google published at the original release. Beyond the mirror deluge, the window included several small GitHub releases of marginal import: a tool that pulls Chinese captions from YouTube, a localization layer for LM Studio (making it easier for Mandarin-speaking devs to run local LLMs), a curated study journal of modern AI research, and an apparently early-stage project called sweetteabittersugar/agency with a mystery-box release note—no documentation, no benchmarks, just a version number. Hard pass. An MCP plugin called Live Translate got an update for real-time translation in developer toolchains, but its score of 0 tells you everything. A Chinese-language Lora chatbot repo surfaced, tagged as 'bare-bones'; at least the source was honest. The MedTextCN project also received a separate update (quality 0) that adds no useful detail and is effectively a duplicate. Today is a reminder that volume counts for nothing without substance. As Ascend's model zoo swells with rebadged checkpoints, the ratio of press announcement to actual engineering remains dangerously skewed. The anti-detection framework update and the Chinese docs refreshes are the only items that improve a developer's Thursday afternoon in any measurable way. The rest is noise.

  • 0xZoZoZo
    Zo (hiring) 🐦‍⬛ (@0xZoZoZo) reported

    I was telling a friend that @github needs to be replaced post agents and he asked me to explain why. I started stumbling, and doubting. Perhaps it's fine? Sitting down at my desk, let me try to explain why, and see if it make sense. Agents operate best when they have good context, which has made a lot of devs converge into large monorepos that combine all systems into a single location. This improves agents, but our GitHub actions become messy; like now we need to create these complex workflows to decide which action should run when, and GitHub's setup was not really meant for it. Another issue is the overall dev loop: an agent writes the code locally, you push out a branch, @cursor_ai reviews, then you copy paste the notes into the local agent, to fix and push up again. This is slow and cumbersome. You can hack your way by creating supervisor agents that orchestrates this dance, but it's annoying. Perhaps, there is some magical repository, that combines code, cloud agents, and deployment. You prompt, and this magical space will run through the entire process until you get some thumbs up back, and you're good to go. It can also combine all your backend data, product analytics, customer feedback, and perhaps start giving you product guidance, so you can just feed prepared prompts to this system. This seems magical.

  • gabedenys
    Gabriel Denys (@gabedenys) reported

    @Marcos12345rico I posted a GitHub issue. Assuming you probably want bug reporting mostly there? It's a good tool. Locally I already patched and compiled the app to fix the bug.

  • rohit_jsfreaky
    Rohit Kashyap | AI + Full-Stack (@rohit_jsfreaky) reported

    @TheEthanDing distributed systems at github scale make five nines almost impossible. the skill issue crowd has never run anything millions of people hit in the same second

  • Gitbank_io
    Gitbank (@Gitbank_io) reported

    Community update — GitStock delay + what we have been building First, we owe you an honest update. We promised GitStock would ship earlier and we went quiet. That was on us. No excuses, we were heads down in the contracts and infrastructure and did not communicate well. That changes today. Here is what actually took time. We refused to ship GitStock on top of third-party APIs or borrowed infrastructure. Everything you see in Gitbank; the vault, the relayer, the swap engine, the RWA layer runs on smart contracts we wrote, audited ourselves, and deployed. The GitVault contract is verified on Basescan. The GitStockFactory is verified on Basescan. You can read every line. No black box. No external custody API holding your assets behind the scenes. That decision slowed us down. We think it was the right one. On security specifically. Your funds sit in a soul-bound smart contract vault anchored to your GitHub ID. Transfers are disabled at the contract level — not by a rule in a database, by the EVM itself. We also built private transaction routing directly inside GitVault on Base. No Tornado, no third-party mixer, no privacy-as-a-service API. The privacy logic lives in our own contract. You can verify it. The relayer signs and submits transactions on your behalf so you never pay gas, but the keys to your vault are yours. We hold nothing. If you want to verify any of this: check our contracts on Basescan, check our GitHub, check the bytecode. We are open source. The code is the proof. GitStock ships tomorrow.

  • Artur_roses
    Arti | AI Builder (@Artur_roses) reported

    Claude Code just took my GitHub issue, wrote the code, ran the tests, and opened a PR. My job: approve it. The dev workflow isn't changing. It already changed.

  • AtlanteanGnosis
    Atlantean Gnosis ☀️ (@AtlanteanGnosis) reported

    @DionysianAgent When I made an account it said I made it back in 2024, though I don't think I did, is this a glitch or a GitHub thing?

  • HarryTandy
    Harry Tandy (@HarryTandy) reported

    Andrej Karpathy: "Neural networks are not just another classifier. They are Software 2.0" 8-step MCP setup for vibe coders: 1. Context7 Give the agent fresh docs before it writes code This saves you from old Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, and Vercel patterns 2. GitHub MCP Let it read the repo, issues, PRs, branches, and CI logs The task should start from real project context 3. Playwright MCP Make the agent open the app after it edits code Click the flow. Fill the form. Check the screenshot 4. Supabase or Neon MCP Connect the database layer The agent should inspect schema before inventing table names 5. Sentry MCP Use production errors as input Stack traces beat “the app is broken” every time 6. Firecrawl MCP Let the agent read current web pages as clean markdown Docs, changelogs, competitors, pricing pages 7. Figma MCP Give it the actual design Spacing, copy, layout, components 8. Linear MCP Turn the work into tickets Tasks, comments, follow-ups, PR links The rule: If you paste the same context twice, wire it into MCP That is how vibe coding becomes a build loop instead of a long chat

  • wispem_wantex
    wispem-wantex (@wispem_wantex) reported

    I think a reasonable compromise would be to henceforth hold Anthropic responsible for any security breaches or service outages. Every time Github goes down, Anthropic should be fined

  • iAmBipinPaul
    Bipin Paul (@iAmBipinPaul) reported

    @davidfowl @_Evan_Boyle Yes, the only problem is that the GitHub Copilot subscription is too expensive.

  • xuyiqing
    Yiqing Xu (@xuyiqing) reported

    @Faylosophe Certianly. Could you file an issue on the Github page?

  • rnagulapalle
    Raj Nagulapalle (@rnagulapalle) reported

    GitHub just shipped Agentic Workflows: write automation in plain markdown, compiles to Actions YAML. issue triage, CI failures, vuln fixes. hours → minutes. but 60% of orgs are spending millions on agentic AI while only 15% are actually production-ready. the capability gap closed fast. the readiness gap didn't move.

  • raxpcodes
    The Flow (@raxpcodes) reported

    Got bored with ubuntu , set up fedora kde on my nvme and removed windows permanently , no more dual boot. Also learned Verison Control and GitHub , also submitted my first pr (good first issue).

  • fraey0
    ƒrαeყ (@fraey0) reported

    it costs about $21/month to run what could become a multi-million dollar startup • human brain = reasoning (free) • claude = coding ($20/mo) • supabase = backend (free) • vercel = deployment (free) • namecheap = domain ($12/yr) • stripe = payments (2.9%/trx) • github = versioning (free) • resend = email (free) • clerk = auth (free) • cloudflare = DNS (free) • posthog = analytics (free) • sentry = error tracking (free) • upstash = redis (free) • pinecone = vector DB (free) everything sums up to roughly $20 to $25 per month so, the tools are not the barrier anymore. most ideas don’t fail because they’re expensive to build. they fail because they never get built at all. what’s stopping you?

  • digitaworld1
    Digita (@digitaworld1) reported

    how well a model can fix real bugs in real open-source codebases. It is harder to game than older benchmarks because it uses actual GitHub issues, not synthetic problems. M3 scored 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro, edging out GPT-5.5 at 58.6% and Google Gemini 3.1 Pro, while sitting just

  • alphabatcher
    Alpha Batcher (@alphabatcher) reported

    David Soria Parra: "2026 is all about connectivity, and the best agents use every available method" A coding agent needs access to the same places you check while building: - repo and PRs - docs - browser - database - error logs - Figma - tasks - payments The article gives the 11 MCP servers for that setup: - Context7, GitHub, Playwright first - Supabase or Neon, Sentry, Firecrawl next - Figma, Linear, Stripe when you need them - Filesystem, ***, Memory, Sequential Thinking as the base Read it if you keep copying code, docs, schemas, screenshots, errors, and tickets into Claude Code by hand

  • SolutionsCay
    Jose (@SolutionsCay) reported

    Two changes to how I work with agents: 1. GitHub App so the agents manage issues directly. Keeps the repo clear of throwaway spec and todo files. 2. EmDash (Cloudflare's serverless WordPress successor) for internal docs. Runs on D1, just SQLite under the hood, so I can export the content and move it anywhere. No more docs sprawl.

  • momo5502
    Maurice Heumann (@momo5502) reported

    @disarray00 If you have concrete recommendations, I would love to hear them, either as GitHub issue, maybe even a PR. But also as a comment here, I'd appreciate it. So when speaking about redundancy, what precisely?