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Xiaomi Just Gave Coding Agents a Hippocampus—And It Remembers Your 400-Step Refactor Hell

Xiaomi’s MiMo Code grafts a hippocampus onto AI coding agents. SQLite FTS5, four-layer memory, a checkpoint-writer subagent — and pricing that’s less competition, more predatory pricing.

June 13, 2026Read

The AI Industry Just Had a Psychotic Break — and It's Only Monday

Web Development

#AI#Tech Industry#Market Analysis+2

The AI Industry Just Had a Psychotic Break — and It's Only Monday

Nine AI stories dropped on June 2, 2026 — from a 99% price cut to a $965B IPO to states suing OpenAI. They're not nine stories. They're one story told nine ways.

June 2, 2026Read

Opus 4.8 Isn't a Smarter Model. It's an Agent Army With a Kill Chain.

Web Development

10m

#Software Engineering#AI Agents#Anthropic+2

Opus 4.8 Isn't a Smarter Model. It's an Agent Army With a Kill Chain.

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 six weeks after 4.7 — with Dynamic Workflows that spawn hundreds of parallel subagents and adversarial verification. It's not a smarter model. It's agent infrastructure.

May 30, 2026Read

20 Years in the Trenches: From Banking Code to AI Agents

Web Development

#RAG#Production Systems#AI Agents+2

20 Years in the Trenches: From Banking Code to AI Agents

From banking transactions to disaster zones to AI agents — 20 years of building systems that work in production, not just in demos.

May 25, 2026Read

Aqaba Isometric Diorama — Jordan in Miniature #25

Web Development

#Jordan#isometric art#3D diorama+2

Aqaba Isometric Diorama — Jordan in Miniature #25

Aqaba's Red Sea shores rendered as an isometric 3D diorama — sun, coral, and turquoise water in miniature.

May 25, 2026Read

The 2-Hour Claude Setup That Made Everything Click

Web Development

#Content Creation#Claude AI#AI Productivity+2

The 2-Hour Claude Setup That Made Everything Click

Two hours of setup, $20/month, and 12-word prompts that come back usable. Here's the exact Claude configuration that changed how I work — every file, every prompt, every shortcut.

May 24, 2026Read

Stop Typing. Start Building Your AI Brain.

Web Development

#Productivity#AI Automation#Content Creation+2

Stop Typing. Start Building Your AI Brain.

I spent the last month building a 5-level AI system that actually runs my content pipeline, audits my channels, and scores podcast guests in under 10 minutes. Here's exactly what I did — and what I'd change.

May 24, 2026Read

What I Actually Build — AI Engineering, RAG Systems, Agents & Full-Stack

Web Development

#Laravel#AI Engineering#Agents+2

What I Actually Build — AI Engineering, RAG Systems, Agents & Full-Stack

A first-person overview of production AI engineering work spanning RAG systems, agent architectures, full-stack Laravel/Next.js delivery, and cost optimization — built for real traffic, not tutorials.

May 24, 2026Read

AI's $900B Week: Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI, GitHub Gets Hacked, and Copilot's Price Bomb

Web Development

#AI#AI Engineering#Anthropic+5

AI's $900B Week: Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI, GitHub Gets Hacked, and Copilot's Price Bomb

Anthropic closes a $900B funding round, Claude Mythos finds 10,000 bugs in 30 days, GitHub gets hacked via a poisoned VS Code extension, and Copilot users face a pricing shock. Here's the full breakdown.

May 23, 2026Read

Dead Sea, Jordan — Isometric Diorama #23

Web Development

#Daily Art#Jordan#Isometric Art+2

Dead Sea, Jordan — Isometric Diorama #23

Foggy Saturday morning over the lowest point on Earth. Isometric diorama of the Dead Sea with floating tourist and salt formations, weather-integrated at 21°C.

May 23, 2026Read

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