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Dev Tooling
11 posts tagged Dev Tooling.
Meta's Muse Opens to Developers: A Field Guide to Agentic Commerce
Days before Meta Connect 2026, Meta opened its AI agent Muse to third-party developers — a concrete look at how a major platform is choosing to wire LLM agents to real payments.
- ai-agents
- agentic-commerce
- llm-security
- dev-tooling
- meta
Python Soft-Deprecates re.match() — A Quiet Trap for AI-Written Code
Python 3.15 introduces re.prefixmatch() and quietly discourages re.match(), a function whose half-anchored behavior has confused developers for decades — and one that AI coding assistants will keep suggesting out of habit.
- python
- vibecoding
- ai-codegen
- regex
- dev-tooling
What OpenAI's Codex Hides in ~/.cache Says About Agent Design
A disk-space audit turned up a full LibreOffice, Python, and Node.js install inside the ChatGPT desktop app's Codex runtime — a small discovery with real lessons for anyone shipping agentic dev tools.
- vibecoding
- ai-agents
- dev-tooling
- openai-codex
- agent-architecture
Simon Willison's Markdown-SVG Renderer Now Compiles MP4 in Your Browser
A single-file tool for pasting Markdown with embedded SVG just picked up in-browser video export via ffmpeg.wasm — a small but instructive example of how far client-only tooling has come.
- vibecoding
- dev-tooling
- svg
- ffmpeg-wasm
- browser-tools
Simon Willison's SQLite Trick: Vibecoding a 250x History Compressor
A dog-walk idea, a voice-mode brainstorm, and a 38-minute coding session produced a working pattern for storing full document revision histories in SQLite at a fraction of the raw size — a clean study in how to actually vibecode something.
- vibecoding
- sqlite
- ai-assisted-development
- dev-tooling
- llm-agents
Claude Code Makes Auto Mode the Default — What Builders Need to Know
Starting August 14, Anthropic flips Claude Code's permission default from prompt-every-step to a classifier-gated auto mode for Pro, Max, and Team users — betting that confirmation fatigue, not agent capability, is the real safety gap.
- vibecoding
- claude-code
- ai-agents
- agentic-coding
- dev-tooling
Datasette Apps 0.2a0: An AI Agent That QA-Tests Its Own UI, Invisibly
Simon Willison's latest Datasette Apps release gives its AI agent two new tools to build, list, and — critically — silently test the apps it writes, closing a loop most agentic coding tools still leave open.
- vibecoding
- ai-agents
- datasette
- dev-tooling
- agentic-coding
MCP Goes Stateless: What the 2026-07-28 Spec Means for Agent Builders
The most significant Model Context Protocol update since its 2024 launch drops session state entirely — and a fresh round of tooling shows what that unlocks for people building with agents.
- mcp
- ai-agents
- vibecoding
- dev-tooling
- llm-tooling
Microsoft's Copilot 'Super App': What the Chat-to-Agent Merge Means for Builders
Nadella confirmed Microsoft is folding chat, GitHub Copilot coding, and its new Autopilots agents into one app this year — a bet that agentic workflows, not chat windows, are the real product.
- copilot
- agentic-ai
- vibecoding
- microsoft
- dev-tooling
sqlite-utils 4.0: What Happens When Two AI Agents Review One Release
Simon Willison shipped the first major sqlite-utils version since 2020 by pitting Claude and GPT-5.5 against each other as pre-release testers — and they found wildly different numbers of bugs.
- vibecoding
- ai-coding-agents
- python
- sqlite
- dev-tooling
Simon Willison's HTML Table Extractor Converts Any Web Table to CSV, JSON, or Markdown
A new browser paste-tool from the co-creator of Django turns rich-text clipboard data into five structured formats — no scraping script required.
- dev tooling
- data extraction
- vibecoding
- llm workflows
- open source