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How Prompt Caching Cuts AI Agent Costs

Prompt caching can dramatically reduce AI agent costs—but only if your setup preserves reusable prefixes. Here's what actually gets cached and what kills it.

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Chunkless RAG: Navigate Documents by Structure

AI. Bob Reynolds2 months ago

Chunkless RAG: Navigate Documents by Structure

Ming Zhao explains how Chunkless RAG and Docling preserve document structure instead of chunking it — and why that matters for AI accuracy on complex queries.

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AI Agents Are the Web Pages of 1995

Bob Reynolds2 months ago

AI Agents Are the Web Pages of 1995

Kwindla Kramer argues AI agents are a primitive, not a destination — and the real work is building the AI-native software that comes after them.

AI Agents Still Can't Do Open-Ended Research

AI Agents Still Can't Do Open-Ended Research

New case studies find frontier AI agents struggle with open-ended research tasks—even with 6 days and $3,000 in API budget. Here's what that means.

MiniMax Agent: Real Utility or Overhyped AI Tool?

AI. Dev Kapoor2 months ago

MiniMax Agent: Real Utility or Overhyped AI Tool?

MiniMax Agent promises to replace prompting with delegation. But its own engineering docs reveal a catch. Here's what the hands-on testing actually shows.

Block's Buzz Reviewed: Agent Audit Trail at a Token Cost

Dev Kapoor2 months ago

Block's Buzz Reviewed: Agent Audit Trail at a Token Cost

Block's Buzz gives AI agent teams a shared workspace and audit trail—but the token costs are brutal and key privacy controls are missing. Here's who should use it.

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July 2026 GitHub Trending: What Developers Actually Built

July 2026 GitHub Trending: What Developers Actually Built

35 projects topped GitHub's trending list in July 2026. The patterns they form say more about developer priorities than any roadmap ever could.

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Boris Cherny on How to Use Claude Code Correctly

Boris Cherny on How to Use Claude Code Correctly

Claude Code's creator says most developers are using modern AI models wrong. Here's what Boris Cherny's actual workflow looks like—and what the community debate around it reveals.

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Claude Obsidian 2.0 Gives AI a Persistent Memory

AI. Bob Reynolds3 months ago

Claude Obsidian 2.0 Gives AI a Persistent Memory

Claude Obsidian 2.0 is a free, MIT-licensed GitHub project that gives Claude a local knowledge base built on Obsidian markdown files. Here's what it actually does.

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Why AI Training Data Quality Beats Raw Compute

Bob Reynolds3 months ago

Why AI Training Data Quality Beats Raw Compute

Bespoke Labs' Mahesh Sathiamoorthy argues data curation—not algorithms or compute—is the real bottleneck in building reliable AI agents. The evidence is hard to dismiss.

Designing GUIs for AI Agents: An Unsolved Problem

Mike Sullivan3 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan3 months ago

Designing GUIs for AI Agents: An Unsolved Problem

AI agents need interfaces humans can actually understand and control. The design choices made now will shape whether AI goes mainstream or stays a developer toy.

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Nvidia's DGX Station GB300: Desktop AI Agent Testing

Bob Reynolds3 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds3 months ago

Nvidia's DGX Station GB300: Desktop AI Agent Testing

Alex Ziskind tests Nvidia's GB300-powered DGX Station desktop, running 128 simultaneous AI agents. Here's what the numbers actually reveal about on-premise AI.

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Jeff Dean at YC: Napkin Math, Bad Transistors, and the 1% Rule

Yuki Okonkwo3 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo3 months ago

Jeff Dean at YC: Napkin Math, Bad Transistors, and the 1% Rule

Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean at YC Startup School 2026 on inference hardware, agent specs, the 1% startup rule, and why taste is the last scarce skill.

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Graph Engineering: Verification Is the Hard Part

Yuki Okonkwo3 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo3 months ago

Graph Engineering: Verification Is the Hard Part

Graph engineering runs AI tasks in parallel across multiple agents—but one bad node can poison everything. Here's how verification actually works.

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Jack Dorsey's Buzz Puts AI Agents in a Chat Room

Bob Reynolds3 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds3 months ago

Jack Dorsey's Buzz Puts AI Agents in a Chat Room

Julian Goldie tests Block's new Buzz platform live, showing how AI agents can collaborate on SEO, image creation, and quality control in a Slack-style workspace.

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Block's Buzz Puts Agents at the Center of Your Team

Block's Buzz Puts Agents at the Center of Your Team

Block's Buzz is an open-source, agent-native chat app built on Nostr. Here's what it actually does, where it falls short, and who should try it now.

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Boris Cherny on Building Claude Code and Opus 5