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ai-agents · June 19, 2026 · 10 min read

Long-Running AI Agents — From Demos to Production

How to move AI agents from demos to production by adding checkpoints, logs, artifact proof, budget limits, and human-readable recovery paths.

ai · Jun 18 · 8 min

OpenCode Dethroned Cursor — and Claude Fable 5 Got Suspended. What June 2026's AI Coding Shakeup Means for You

OpenCode hit 160K GitHub stars and dethroned Cursor as the #1 AI dev tool. Claude Fable 5 launched with record benchmarks — then got suspended 3 days later. Here's what actually matters for your workflow.

ai · Jun 17 · 8 min

GLM 5.2 Just Became the Best Open-Weights Model — Here's What That Means

Z.AI's GLM 5.2 (744B MoE, 1M context, MIT license) tops open-weights benchmarks and runs coding agents at frontier level. Full breakdown.

build · Jun 16 · 8 min

How I Dissected 54 Design Systems and Transplanted Linear.app DNA Into My Hugo Blog in One Day

How a Hugo blog adopted a token-driven design system from real references, turning brand choices into reusable CSS and publishing rules.

news · Jun 16 · 7 min

The quiet consolidation in Korean dev tooling

Three acquisitions in twelve months. Korean dev tools are no longer a fragmented market — they're a small oligopoly, and the API surfaces are starting to look the same.

code · Jun 15 · 7 min

Stop reaching for a state library

Modern JavaScript runtimes have had structured state primitives for years. You probably don't need a 40KB dependency for what your app actually does.

indonesia · Jun 14 · 7 min

The Indonesian developer scene is having its Linux moment

Five years of quiet, distributed, community-driven tooling work. The results are starting to show up in the kinds of projects that get adopted outside the country.

tools · Jun 13 · 8 min

A pragmatic review of Hermes Agent after six months

It's a personal AI agent. It's not a product for end-users. With that frame, it works better than anything else I've tried. Here's what works, what doesn't, and when I'd reach for something else.

opinion · Jun 12 · 8 min

Why I'm no longer worried about AI replacing senior developers

Two years of watching the field from Jakarta. The replacement threat was always a junior-developer story. The senior-developer story is the opposite of what most people are writing about.