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ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: Which to pay for in 2026?
AI June 28, 2026

ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: Which to pay for in 2026?

A deep dive 2026 technical comparison of ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Gemini Advanced. Find out which $20 AI subscription is actually worth it for developers.

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OpenCode Subagents: Workflows, Use Cases, and Superpowers
ai June 26, 2026

OpenCode Subagents: Workflows, Use Cases, and Superpowers

Learn how to design agentic workflows with OpenCode subagents. Discover how to combine cheap and frontier AI models to automate tasks like Superpowers.

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Android CLI: Accelerating Development with AI Agents
Android June 21, 2026

Android CLI: Accelerating Development with AI Agents

Discover how the new Android CLI is redefining the mobile ecosystem, allowing AI agents to build apps up to three times faster.

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Android Skills: AI Guide for Smoke-Free Development
Android June 21, 2026

Android Skills: AI Guide for Smoke-Free Development

Learn how the Android Skills repository centralizes context so AI agents can build robust apps without legacy hallucinations.

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The Persistent Memory Stack I Actually Use...
AI June 18, 2026

The Persistent Memory Stack I Actually Use...

Honest technical deep dive into the persistent memory stack I combine daily in my projects: opencode-supermemory for auto-compact, basic-memory as main memory with Markdown + graph, and forgetful as procedural skills layer. With real configuration examples for Claude Code, Codex,

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Native OpenCode Plugins for Persistent
AI June 16, 2026

Native OpenCode Plugins for Persistent

Comparative technical analysis of three native OpenCode plugins to give your AI agent persistent local memory: simple-memory (logfmt), Mnemosyne (offline Go binary), and true-mem (cognitive psychology).

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Loop Engineering
AI June 15, 2026

Loop Engineering

Discover how Loop Engineering is replacing traditional prompting. Learn to design autonomous systems for mobile development with Kotlin and Android, managing risks and optimizing resources.

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rules.md: The Definitive Standard for Cont...
AI June 14, 2026

rules.md: The Definitive Standard for Cont...

Discover how rules.md, .cursorrules, and the .mdc format have revolutionized the way we guide AI coding assistants in Android and Kotlin development projects.

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design.md: The New Standard for AI-Assisted UI/UX Design
AI June 13, 2026

design.md: The New Standard for AI-Assisted UI/UX Design

Discover how design.md complements agents.md, focusing on design decisions, UI/UX, accessibility, and Jetpack Compose for Android development in the era of AI agents.

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Google Stitch
AI June 13, 2026

Google Stitch

Discover how Google Stitch, powered by Gemini, is transforming UI design in Android. Examples, guides, tricks, and its integration with Jetpack Compose and Kotlin.

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Cross-Agent MCP Servers for Persistent
AI June 12, 2026

Cross-Agent MCP Servers for Persistent

Exhaustive technical comparison of three cross-platform MCP servers to give AI agents persistent memory: opencode-supermemory (cloud), basic-memory (Markdown + graph), and forgetful (atomic Zettelkasten). Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more.

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GitHub Agentic Workflows: Automation With ...
CI/CD June 10, 2026

GitHub Agentic Workflows: Automation With ...

CI/CD already automates builds and deploys, but we still spend hours on triage, CI failures, and stale documentation. GitHub Agentic Workflows pushes automation one step further: agents operating inside defined guardrails to handle that repetitive work with judgement.

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GSD Core: the Anti-Ceremony Framework That...
AI June 5, 2026

GSD Core: the Anti-Ceremony Framework That...

Deep dive into GSD Core (formerly Get Shit Done): 33 agents, wave execution, 200K fresh context per subagent, and the Discuss→Plan→Execute→Verify→Ship phase loop. How to install it, when to use it, and when not to.

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'Grill Me' vs Socratic Method vs Spec-Driven Dev
SDD May 22, 2026

'Grill Me' vs Socratic Method vs Spec-Driven Dev

An architectural analysis of how the 'Grill Me' skill fits into the historical tension between honoring the specification and constantly challenging it through adversarial prompts.

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Deep Dive into 'Grill Me': The Socratic Gr...
AI May 20, 2026

Deep Dive into 'Grill Me': The Socratic Gr...

Discover how Matt Pocock's viral skill is transforming AI-assisted development by forcing agents to ruthlessly question your design before writing a single line of code.

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Mattpocock/skills: The Composable Alternat...
SDD May 20, 2026

Mattpocock/skills: The Composable Alternat...

Why Matt Pocock's skills are small, composable, and opinionated — and how they compare to Spec Kit, OpenSpec, and BMAD for AI-assisted Android development.

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Socratic Grilling Meets Spec-Driven Develo...
SDD May 20, 2026

Socratic Grilling Meets Spec-Driven Develo...

Matt Pocock's /grill-me skill forces adversarial alignment before coding. SDD frameworks enforce architectural contracts. We test whether these two philosophies can actually work together in a single workflow — and where they genuinely conflict.

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Semantic Code Search Tools for AI Coding A...
AI May 19, 2026

Semantic Code Search Tools for AI Coding A...

A comprehensive comparison of CocoIndex Code and CodeGraph — two AST-based semantic code search tools that dramatically reduce token consumption and accelerate code exploration for AI coding agents like Claude Code.

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The Socratic Agent Series (Part 3): Buildi...
AI May 17, 2026

The Socratic Agent Series (Part 3): Buildi...

A pragmatic guide to building advanced multi-agent interactions using Kotlin Coroutines and StateFlow. From MARS to MotivGraph-SoIQ, bringing academic theory to production code.

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Socratic Method Prompts: Breaking AI Sycop...
AI May 17, 2026

Socratic Method Prompts: Breaking AI Sycop...

Learn how to stop LLMs from being compliant assistants and turn them into ruthless evaluators. Discover the mathematical anatomy of Socratic prompts for Android architecture, Kotlin Coroutines, and strict Spec-Driven Development.

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The Socratic Agent Series (Part 2): Spec-D...
AI May 16, 2026

The Socratic Agent Series (Part 2): Spec-D...

How AI's desire to please you is destroying your codebase. We explore Spec-Driven Development frameworks and how to implement Socratic verification gates in your Android CI pipeline.

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The Socratic Agent Series (Part 1): Induct...
AI May 15, 2026

The Socratic Agent Series (Part 1): Induct...

Why LLM hallucinations aren't bugs, but features of prediction. Discover how to build Socratic Induction loops in Kotlin to force AI agents to doubt their own logic before acting in Android systems.

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Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: The Complete Gui...
AI May 9, 2026

Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: The Complete Gui...

A comprehensive comparison between Hermes Agent and OpenClaw, two open source autonomous AI agent frameworks. Analysis based on verifiable public information from their official repositories and documentation.

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Complete Beginner's Guide: Recommended Sta...
AI April 23, 2026

Complete Beginner's Guide: Recommended Sta...

OpenClaw for ready-to-use agents, Vercel AI SDK with Next.js for custom development, OpenAI and Claude models, MCPs for integrations, and Cursor/Claude Code for programming. Complete analysis with practical examples and cost considerations.

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Agentic Engineering Methodologies: Superpowers vs OpenSpec
SDD April 12, 2026

Agentic Engineering Methodologies: Superpowers vs OpenSpec

A deep dive comparison of two distinct approaches to AI software development: the skill-based methodology of Superpowers and the artifact-guided workflow of OpenSpec.

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Paperclip AI: The Platform That Enables Zero-Human Companies
AI April 4, 2026

Paperclip AI: The Platform That Enables Zero-Human Companies

Discover how Paperclip AI revolutionizes business management with autonomous AI agents, heartbeats, budgets, and multi-team governance to operate organizations without human intervention.

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AI Tools Worth Learning in 2026: Investment vs. Hype
AI April 3, 2026

AI Tools Worth Learning in 2026: Investment vs. Hype

LangGraph, CrewAI, n8n, AutoGen, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK — a community debate emerged about which of these will still exist in a year. Here's an honest breakdown.

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Lean Task-First Development: Beads, LeanSp...
AI March 28, 2026

Lean Task-First Development: Beads, LeanSp...

A deep dive into three tools that solve context rot and keep AI coding agents focused: Beads (git-native DAG issue tracker), LeanSpec (minimal spec-driven workflow), and Taskmaster (PRD-to-task orchestration). Real commands, real workflows, real indie dev perspective.

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SDD Frameworks Deep Dive: GitHub Spec Kit,...
SDD March 28, 2026

SDD Frameworks Deep Dive: GitHub Spec Kit,...

A thorough analysis of the three leading Spec-Driven Development frameworks: the architectural contracts of GitHub Spec Kit, the change-proposal agility of OpenSpec, and the multi-agent orchestration of BMAD-METHOD.

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Agents of Chaos: 7 Critical AI Agent Security Flaws
AI March 27, 2026

Agents of Chaos: 7 Critical AI Agent Security Flaws

Analysis of the 'Agents of Chaos' paper (arXiv:2602.20021): 7 critical vulnerabilities found in two weeks of red-teaming autonomous AI agents with persistent memory, email, and shell access.

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Hipocampus
AI March 27, 2026

Hipocampus

A technical deep-dive into Hipocampus, a drop-in memory harness for AI agents that uses a 3-tier Hot/Warm/Cold architecture and a 5-level compaction tree. How ROOT.md enables constant-cost memory awareness and how it compares to hmem, Mem0, and Letta.

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hmem: Hierarchical SQLite Memory for AI Ag...
AI March 27, 2026

hmem: Hierarchical SQLite Memory for AI Ag...

A technical deep-dive into hmem (Humanlike Memory), an MCP server that models human memory in five lazy-loaded levels backed by SQLite + FTS5. How Fibonacci decay, logarithmic aging, and a curator agent solve the context window problem across sessions and machines.

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The PARA Method and File-Based AI
AI March 26, 2026

The PARA Method and File-Based AI

A deep dive into using the PARA method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives) as a cognitive scaffold for AI agent memory. How Markdown files, Obsidian, and Logseq via MCP create transparent, human-editable memory systems that actually persist.

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PlugMem: Microsoft Research's Task-Agnosti...
AI March 26, 2026

PlugMem: Microsoft Research's Task-Agnosti...

A technical deep-dive into PlugMem, Microsoft Research's plugin memory system that transforms raw LLM agent interactions into reusable structured knowledge. How its three-component architecture (Structure, Retrieval, and Reasoning) outperforms task-specific memory designs.

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First Principles Reasoning and AI Audit: Q...
AI March 25, 2026

First Principles Reasoning and AI Audit: Q...

How the First Principles Framework (FPF) and Quint Code enforce structured reasoning on AI agents. The Abduction–Deduction–Induction cycle applied to engineering decisions, auditable decision contracts, and why vibe-coded AI is not enough.

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Agentic Memory: Security, Privacy, and the...
AI March 25, 2026

Agentic Memory: Security, Privacy, and the...

A deep analysis of the critical risks surrounding persistent memory in AI agents: memory poisoning, the right to be forgotten, homomorphic encryption, and the trends that will define 2026.

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Alternative Paradigms and Emerging Methodo...
AI March 24, 2026

Alternative Paradigms and Emerging Methodo...

A deep dive into IDD, Lean SDD, BEADS Workflow, Agent OS, and the Dark Factory concept: emerging methodologies that challenge conventional development flows and raise the abstraction level in the age of autonomous AI.

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Spec-Driven Development with Agentic
AI March 24, 2026

Spec-Driven Development with Agentic

A senior engineer's guide to SDD for agentic AI: from vibe coding to structured, reproducible development using GitHub Spec Kit, BMAD Method, OpenSpec, SPARC, and more.

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The Architecture of Persistent AI Agent
AI March 17, 2026

The Architecture of Persistent AI Agent

A deep technical analysis of how AI agents persist, consolidate and retrieve information autonomously. From OpenClaw and QMD to Mem0, Cognee and neurobiological memory models.

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Orchestrating AI Agents in Your Android CI/CD Pipeline
AI March 9, 2026

Orchestrating AI Agents in Your Android CI/CD Pipeline

Learn how to integrate specialized AI agents (code review, documentation, benchmarks) into your Android CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and AGENTS.md.

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SLMs vs LLMs for Android: When to Run AI on the Device
Android March 9, 2026

SLMs vs LLMs for Android: When to Run AI on the Device

Practical guide for Android developers to choose between on-device small models (Gemini Nano, Phi-3 Mini) and cloud LLMs: latency, privacy, cost, and battery life.

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Autonomous AI Agents in Android Development
AI March 8, 2026

Autonomous AI Agents in Android Development

How autonomous AI agents transform Android development: from multi-agent frameworks to pipelines that open PRs and run tests on their own.

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Gemini Nano on Android
Android March 8, 2026

Gemini Nano on Android

Learn to integrate Gemini Nano in Android via Android AI Core. Real use cases, Kotlin snippets, and when to choose on-device vs. cloud inference.

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Anthropic Claude 4.6
AI February 22, 2026

Anthropic Claude 4.6

Claude 4.6 Opus and Sonnet arrive on Microsoft Foundry with a 1 Million Token context window. Anthropic solidifies its place in the enterprise with deep integration into Azure and everyday work tools.

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Google Gemini 3.1 Pro
AI February 20, 2026

Google Gemini 3.1 Pro

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro arrives with a verified 77.1% ARC-AGI-2 score, code-based SVG animation, and Lyria 3 music generation. Is this the reasoning leap we've been waiting for?

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ChatGPT 5.3 Codex: The New Standard for Mobile Development?
AI February 18, 2026

ChatGPT 5.3 Codex: The New Standard for Mobile Development?

A deep dive into ChatGPT 5.3 Codex, its new dedicated app, and what it means for Android developers. Includes comparison with Gemini 3.0 Pro.

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Claude 4.6 (Sonnet and Opus)
AI February 18, 2026

Claude 4.6 (Sonnet and Opus)

Review of Anthropic's Claude 4.6 family. How 'Adaptive Thinking' and 'Computer Use v2' change the game for mobile CI/CD. Includes comparison with Gemini 3.0 Pro.

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Developer in 2026
Career February 10, 2026

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Developer in 2026

Why the feeling of inadequacy is rising in the age of AI, and how to combat it by redefining your value.

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Effective Mentorship: A Guide for Seniors in the AI Era
Mentorship February 9, 2026

Effective Mentorship: A Guide for Seniors in the AI Era

How to mentor junior developers when AI can write the code. Focusing on architectural thinking and debugging.

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Offline-First Synchronization Patterns Powered by AI
Offline-First February 7, 2026

Offline-First Synchronization Patterns Powered by AI

Revolutionizing data synchronization and conflict resolution using local AI models in 2026.

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Local Inference Architecture: Integrating ...
Android February 5, 2026

Local Inference Architecture: Integrating ...

A guide to decoupling on-device AI models like Gemini Nano using Clean Architecture principles in Android 16.

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AI Skills in Development: Powering Your Android Workflow
AI December 29, 2025

AI Skills in Development: Powering Your Android Workflow

Discover how AI Skills transform modern development, automating complex tasks and improving productivity in Android projects.

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Clean Architecture + AI
AI November 20, 2025

Clean Architecture + AI

Discover how Artificial Intelligence and Clean Architecture empower each other to create maintainable, scalable, and precisely auto-generated Android code.

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Refactoring Legacy Code with AI: From Nightmare to Dream
AI November 10, 2025

Refactoring Legacy Code with AI: From Nightmare to Dream

Strategies for tackling legacy code (Java, Spaghetti) using AI tools. How to migrate to Kotlin and Clean Architecture without breaking production.

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AI Code Review: Your New Tireless Agent Companion
AI November 5, 2025

AI Code Review: Your New Tireless Agent Companion

Learn how to configure AI agents to perform automated code reviews, catch subtle bugs, and enforce standards before a human intervenes.

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Clawdbot: Hosting Your Own AI Assistant
Android October 31, 2025

Clawdbot: Hosting Your Own AI Assistant

How to deploy Clawdbot on Android. A self-hosted, open-source AI assistant that respects your privacy. Architecture and setup guide.

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Clawdbot: AI Assistant on Telegram
AI October 31, 2025

Clawdbot: AI Assistant on Telegram

Connecting your self-hosted Clawdbot to Telegram. How to build a private, smart bot that lives in your chat app.

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AI Agent Skills: Dynamic Context Injection
AI October 25, 2025

AI Agent Skills: Dynamic Context Injection

How to inject dynamic context into AI agent prompts. Techniques for providing memory, skills, and tools on-the-fly.

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AI Agents on Android: Theory and Practice
AI October 25, 2025

AI Agents on Android: Theory and Practice

Understanding the role of AI Agents in modern mobile development. From theoretical foundations to practical implementation strategies using LLMs.

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Effective Context for AI: Prompt Engineering
AI October 25, 2025

Effective Context for AI: Prompt Engineering

How to craft prompts that work. From simple instructions to complex multi-step reasoning. Optimizing context windows.

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Production Agentic
AI October 25, 2025

Production Agentic

A comprehensive deep dive into the de facto standards for orchestrating AI agents in production environments. We analyze architecture, features, and use cases.

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TDD and AI in Android Development
TDD October 21, 2025

TDD and AI in Android Development

How Test-Driven Development (TDD) pairs with AI coding assistants. Writing tests first to guide LLM code generation.

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Gemini in Android Studio: The AI Assistant
Android October 15, 2025

Gemini in Android Studio: The AI Assistant

Review of Gemini Code Assist for Android developers. How does it compare to Copilot? Best practices for prompt engineering in the IDE.

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GitHub Copilot in Android: Your AI Pair Programmer
AI October 10, 2025

GitHub Copilot in Android: Your AI Pair Programmer

Maximize your productivity in Android Studio with GitHub Copilot. Advanced prompting techniques, test generation, and assisted refactoring.

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Power Up Your AI Agents with Skills: From Gemini to Copilot
AI May 24, 2025

Power Up Your AI Agents with Skills: From Gemini to Copilot

Discover how to transform your generalist AI assistant into a team of specialists using Agent Skills. Includes practical examples for Android, Kotlin, and Conventional Commits.

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Asynchronous Pair Programming with Agents:...
AI May 22, 2025

Asynchronous Pair Programming with Agents:...

Real Android development cases where delegating to specialized agents beats any standard AI chat. Security, Performance, and UX.

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Your Virtual Staff: Configuring Sentinel, Bolt, and Palette
AI May 21, 2025

Your Virtual Staff: Configuring Sentinel, Bolt, and Palette

Practical step-by-step guide to implementing an agent architecture in your Android project. Configure your own AI experts and define their rules.

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Agents.md Standard: Blueprint for AI-Ready Projects
AI May 15, 2025

Agents.md Standard: Blueprint for AI-Ready Projects

Introducing the Agents.md standard. A file convention to context-load AI agents with project architecture, coding rules, and domain knowledge.

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Reasoning Models (o1, R1): Why Prompt Engineering is Dying
AI February 15, 2025

Reasoning Models (o1, R1): Why Prompt Engineering is Dying

The arrival of OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 marks the end of complex 'Prompt Engineering'. Understand how reasoning models (System 2) work and when to use them.

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From Copilot to Autonomous Agents: Cline, ...
AI February 2, 2025

From Copilot to Autonomous Agents: Cline, ...

Autocomplete is a thing of the past. Discover how AI Agents like Cline and Cursor are redefining software development, allowing for multi-file editing and autonomous command execution.

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DeepSeek R1: The Coding Review
AI January 31, 2025

DeepSeek R1: The Coding Review

A developer's take on DeepSeek R1 for coding tasks. From impressive reasoning to common hallucinations. Is it ready for production code?

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Reasoning Models: From o1 to R1
AI January 31, 2025

Reasoning Models: From o1 to R1

The evolution of reasoning in AI. How OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 compare. Chain-of-Thought prompting and the future of coding agents.

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