Your OpenClaw Updates Need a Canary, Not Courage
OpenClaw’s release feed is moving faster than its labels can explain, so blind auto-update is a bad personal-automation strategy. Cleo and Dev build a Release Sentinel canary, keep telemetry local, an...
2 Aug 20min
Claude Code Changed Engines—Your Evals Just Broke
Claude Code’s move to a new Bun runtime is a reminder that your coding agent has a software supply chain too. Alex and Sam unpack runtime drift, model routers, reverse-engineering with agents, and a f...
24 Jul 19min
Better Agent Tools Made Code Review Worse
GitHub gave its code-review agent better tools and watched cost rise while useful findings fell. Alex and Sam unpack why task-shaped instructions beat bigger toolboxes, how invisible environment detai...
14 Jul 18min
Your AI Coding Benchmarks Are Lying To You
This week, Alex and Sam look at why benchmark wins are a bad way to choose coding tools, what Godot's coding-agent ban reveals about mentorship, and a simple workflow for making agents show their work...
3 Jul 18min
The Tiny Local Model That Changes Your Agent Budget
Small, local models are suddenly good enough for real agent chores, but the win is not replacing your smartest model. Cleo and Dev unpack lightweight extraction models, model-routing memory, browser-s...
26 Jun 18min
Your Coding Agent Needs a Bouncer Now
AI coding agents are getting longer runs, more context, and more ways to touch production workflows, but this week made the real bottleneck obvious: authorization. Alex and Sam unpack MCP's missing en...
19 Jun 19min
Verification Is Now Your Coding Agent Bottleneck
Coding agents are getting better at long runs, but this week's news points at the real limit: proof. Alex and Sam unpack agent loops, Stack Overflow for Agents, Copilot CLI delegation, local-model cod...
17 Jun 11min
