Vercel's unexpected finding shakes up the AI agent world: simple AGENTS.md files outperform complex skills packages 100% to 79%—minimalist context beats modular complexity! Paul Kinlan got hooked on Claude Code and shares how the browser became the ultimate sandbox for rapid development. Ryan Carniato gives us the essential state of JavaScript frameworks heading into 2026 (spoiler: things are getting interesting!).
Also in this issue: Mo Bitar's honest reflection after two years of vibecoding—sometimes returning to hand-written code brings back the joy! Hardik Pandya drops practical power prompts for maximizing Claude Code effectiveness. Peter Steinberger (creator of Clawd) takes the radical approach: orchestrating AI agents to ship code without reading every line! Slava Akhmechet's AI interview experiment reveals a fascinating truth—AI amplifies existing skills but doesn't bridge gaps. Nate Meyvis asks the provocative question: what happens when AI massively expands the 10X engineer productivity ratio? And GitHub's engineering team dives deep into the art and science behind Copilot CLI's animated ASCII banner!
On the tools front: Moltbot delivers your own personal AI assistant running 24/7 across any OS (privacy-first, local-first automation on your terms!), while githuman keeps the human in the loop for reviewing AI-generated code before commits—essential oversight in the age of AI coding agents!
Nielsen Norman Group reveals why most tooltips fail and how to fix them—actionable guidance for better UI information architecture that your users will actually appreciate!
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AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
by Vercel
We expected skills to be the solution for teaching coding agents framework-specific knowledge. After building evals focused on Next.js 16 APIs, we found something unexpected.
🚀 Read it!, ai, skills
by Paul Kinlan
I got hooked on Claude Code over the holiday break and used it to create a number of small projects in record time.
📰 Good to know, ai
by Ryan Carniato
Heading into 2026
📰 Good to know, javascript, frameworks
After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
by Mo Bitar
Most people’s journey with AI coding starts the same: you give it a simple task. You’re impressed. So you give it a large task. You’re even more impressed.
📰 Good to know, ai
by Hardik Pandya
Some tips and tricks for using Claude Code effectively.
📰 Good to know, ai
by Gergely Orosz
I ship code I don't read
📰 Good to know, moltbot
by Slava Akhmechet
Over the past few months I’ve been running an experiment.
📰 Good to know, ai, interviews
by Nate Meyvis
What happens to the 10X engineer - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows a lot.
📰 Good to know, ai, engineering
by Aaron Winston
The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner
📰 Good to know, github, copilot, cli, ascii, banner
by molt.bot
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way.
🧰 Tools, ai, assistant
by Matteo Collina
Keep the Human in the Loop of coding
🧰 Tools, ai, git, review
by Kate Kaplan
and How to Make Them Better
🎨 Design, ui
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