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ISSUE #35·October 21, 2026

Claude Broke Git. Anthropic Built a VCS to Fix It.

Claude drove a 12x merge surge that broke Anthropic's git infrastructure. They built a replacement VCS in 5 months. Plus DeepSeek's $0.75/1K search API and why harnesses can regress your agent.

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ISSUE #34·October 14, 2026

The Malicious Zod Commit That Never Shipped

A malicious Zod commit sat in git for 20 days — here's how trusted publishing stopped it — plus REA, the MCP server giving agents 41 reverse-engineering tools.

supply-chainsecurityai-agentstools

190 · ❤️ 5 · 📖 14 min

ISSUE #33·October 7, 2026

GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding at $2/M

GPT-6.1 Sol ships at $2/M, near-Astra coding at 1/5 the price. Plus VISTA takes Claude from 40% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3, and the AWS Well-Architected Agent replaces Trusted Advisor.

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225 · ❤️ 10 · 📖 12 min

ISSUE #32·September 30, 2026

The Model Week: Opus 5.5 Arrives at 40% Less

Claude Opus 5.5 arrives at 40% less cost. Amazon CloudWatch Omni launches as a free IDE extension. BLINDSPOT shows agent safety failures emerge after turn 10.

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192 · ❤️ 6 · 📖 10 min

ISSUE #31·September 23, 2026

One Developer, 800,000 Lines of Rust, 14.5 Weeks. AI Agents Wrote Most of It.

GitHub rewrites 800K lines of Copilot runtime with AI agents in 14.5 weeks. Plus Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2-second cold starts regardless of container size.

211 · ❤️ 10 · 📖 13 min

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