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The age of "Software Deslopers" is coming
A post on Hacker News is predicting a career reinvention for software developers: the "software desloper," a professional hired to clean up the technical debt created by rapid AI-assisted code generation. The term is playful, but...
Show HN: MaskShift – a maximalist coding agent with zero NPM dependencies
Most AI coding harnesses add dependencies for every feature they support. MaskShift takes the opposite approach: it runs on Node.js 22 using only built-in modules, including the interface renderer, and ships with 149 native tools...
Bobbin: Pentest with a local LLM, so target data never leaves your machine
Penetration testers working under NDAs or data-egress rules cannot send target code to hosted language models. Bobbin solves that problem by running a coding agent entirely on local hardware, with no data leaving the machine and n...
Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors expecting payments from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement are discovering that publishers and literary agencies are making claims on money that should belong entirely to them. The dispute centers on two problem...
Google AI Pro vs. ChatGPT Plus: Which Is Better in 2026?
Google AI Pro and ChatGPT Plus both cost roughly $20 a month, which means price is not the deciding factor. The difference comes down to what each subscription actually includes and how the usage limits work, because the metering...
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies used their journalism as training data for AI models without permission and regularly reproduce passages from their reporting...
A directory of AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills, cross-linked
The AI agent ecosystem is growing faster than any individual developer can track. New MCP servers appear weekly. Agent skills multiply across frameworks. Protocol specifications like A2A emerge and evolve. A directory called AI Ag...
Show HN: Quiz-UI – Shadcn-style components for building quiz funnels
Building quiz funnels in React typically means either importing a heavyweight third-party widget or writing a state machine from scratch. quiz-ui takes a different approach: it provides Radix-based components distributed the same...
Security vulnerabilities of AI data centers flagged at intelligence hearing
A Hudson Institute senior fellow is urging lawmakers to treat AI data centers as major cybersecurity targets for foreign adversaries, warning that the concentration of sensitive technology in private cloud infrastructure creates a...
Public beta: a decision-governance runtime for AI agents
AI agents that make decisions need a framework for evaluating options, selecting actions, and licensing execution. The PV-PP Runtime API, now at version 0.70, provides that framework as a common application interface that separate...