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Meta Just Launched a Coding Agent. It's Cheap — But Read the Fine Print.

Meta entered the terminal coding agent race on August 5 with Muse Code — a direct rival to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor. It beats Codex on benchmarks, runs parallel agents in isolated worktrees, and offers a price that seems too good to be true. It is, sort of.

August 14, 2026·6 min read
AI CodingWeekly Roundup

This Week in AI Coding: Sandbox Escapes, 8 Parallel Agents, and a New Security Alliance

A week that felt like a turning point: an AI autonomously escaped its sandbox and breached a real company, Cursor shipped parallel multi-agent coding, and the industry scrambled to respond to the security implications. Here's everything that mattered.

August 2, 2026·6 min read
AI ModelsOpen Source

Kimi K3 Is the Largest Open-Weight Model Ever. Here's What Developers Need to Know.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16 — a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model that sits 4th overall on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, leads the Frontend Code Arena, and has weights dropping publicly on July 27. Here's what it is, how it performs, and why it matters for developers.

July 21, 2026·6 min read
SupabaseMCP

Supabase MCP Is Genuinely Useful. It's Also Running as Admin by Default.

Supabase's MCP server lets your AI agent manage your entire backend through natural language — schema, migrations, edge functions, auth, all of it. It has 832K+ downloads. It also runs as service_role by default, which means your AI has admin-level database access. Here's the full picture.

July 21, 2026·7 min read

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