Now that Stripe and Ramp have their own inference routers, does that mean Plaid and Square are next? openrouter.ai/blog/announ... router.com

Router by Ramp

One endpoint, one bill, every model — cut your AI costs by 40% on average. The missing piece to maximize ROI.

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Slack Code launched, claiming no other platform combines an open ecosystem with multiplayer human-agent coding. Buzz shipped a month ago: Apache-2.0, self-hostable, any model, any harness. Slack's "open ecosystem" is a five-partner allowlist. www.salesforce.com/introducing...

Introducing Slack Code: Agentic Coding for Teams

AI coding is now a team sport. Introducing Slack Code, where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship code together in the open in a dedicated code channel.

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"If they can convince you that you are replaceable, and that you have no self-determination, and you have no power, then they are able to do whatever they want."

For a while, I've felt about 20% more productive with AI, so DX's findings sound accurate. leaddev.com/reporting/a...

AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x

The benchmark is wrong, not the results.

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US models think React is the only solution to every problem. Why am I not surprised?

'Most capable model' is the thirst trap of every AI release

We've fully entered the "every model is the most capable model" phase of the timeline

AI gave product engineering teams a raise: same effort, more output. The trap is spending it all — more scope, more surface area — instead of investing the surplus.

see them as the fifth-best team in the West.

Just over here looking at ChatGPT's naming conventions for 5.6 and reliving my Terra (LUNA) crypto trauma.

Good reads from April & May Apr 6 — Claude Is Not Your Architect www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-n... AI coding assistants are too agreeable to be trusted with real architecture decisions — they never push back, and when a bad design fails, it’s the engineers who get blamed, not the AI.

Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend.

Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be the ones carrying the bag.

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AI companies pirating the internet is cool. Meanwhile, a movie or sports game can still get you 5 years and a $250K fine.

I hopped over to Gemini for one quick fix—and GLM immediately hit me with: “Nope. This is all wrong.”

You could use one of these sophisticated products with "smart" routing between models (Cursor, Augment, GitHub Copilot, etc.) Or you could use GLM 5.2 open.substack.com/pub/kilocod...

When I rewatch Titanic and hear Rose compare boarding the ship to being sent to America in chains on a slave ship...

OpenCode 1.17.3 can reference other git repos or local folders 𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜: { "𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝": "𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚋.𝚌𝚘𝚖/𝙴𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝-𝚃𝚂/𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝-𝚜𝚖𝚘𝚕" } gives it full access to the effect codebase, here's how we use it

open.substack.com/pub/charityd...

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

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Masters of the Universe felt very derivative of Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: Ragnarok. Like someone took notes in crayon.

a lot of programmers work in the tech a lot more of them work outside of tech tech makes a lot of revenue per employee - if they had to pay 2x per programmer it probably wouldn't matter very different for everyone else worth thinking about in terms of coding agent spend

we're going to hit 1M daily active users in the next few weeks the whole way here almost all the thought leaders kept explaining how what we were doing was wrong, bad taste, wouldn't work, etc none of them were curious enough to ask us what they got wrong

There's an imbalance between code generation speed and the experience required to validate it.

These tech layoffs likely stem from a hard truth: for many companies, the fastest way to show “AI-driven growth” is cutting headcount—not delivering meaningful product improvements.

every single ai product: "we've built revolutionary tech that changes your life using artificial intelligence so say you have a spreadsheet...."

This exchange perfectly captures how it feels to use Claude during peak hours

was waiting for this to come out this is the only angle left to attack open source, it's going to be china fear mongering it's going to be extremely effective as well

Stop building tools for a single AI coding agent. Locking into one ecosystem prevents you from swapping models as bleeding-edge tech evolves. Focus on interoperable standards and protocols. The future is multi-agent and multi-model. Build for the stack, not the brand.

A list of all of the restaurants that I want to try in Vegas during #GoogleCloudNext 2026 maps.app.goo.gl/GYBEvsypa3z...

Google Cloud Next 2026 · Ryan Edge

18 places - Where I'm eating in Vegas for Cloud Next 2026

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Measuring token usage is the new measuring velocity. Velocity taught teams to reward inflated estimates. Token usage will teach teams to reward verbosity. Goodhart's Law doesn't care what era you're in.

opus 4.7 is a beauty a fresh yet elegant take on something we've seen before a new standard, a definite marker of a new era (i haven't tried it yet)

Claude is broken for me this morning, but not so broken that it can’t advertise