Context size reduction

The context-window arms race runs in one direction in the marketing (bigger!), but vendors sometimes quietly go the other way. OpenAI reduced the Codex model's context size from 372k to 272k tokens, and because the Codex CLI is open source, the change surfaced as a GitHub pull request rather than an

Treat AI context as a budget to manage

The Context Window is a BUDGET, not a capacity to fill. Every token in context costs money (you pay for it again on every turn), latency, and attention (quality decays as the window fills; context rot sets in long before the hard limit). Filling the window because it's there is spending a budget bec

Ori Eval

Ori Eval is OpenRouter's tool for writing your first eval. Their pitch, and it's the right one:

HuggingNews

HuggingNews is a news wire for AI and open source, where the pipeline itself writes the stories. Its own summary: "Headlines and news articles, written from primary sources." The site framing is simpler still: what is happening in AI today?

OpenWorker

OpenWorker is an open-source "AI coworker" announced by Andrew Ng, built with Rohit Prasad. It's an agent that doesn't just chat with you, but delivers FINISHED work. Polished documents and reports, Slack messages, calendar updates, customer briefs, alert triage; tasks completed across your files an

Bento

Bento is a presentation tool that is a single HTML file. Not an app that exports HTML; the file is the software. Open it in a browser and you have the viewer, the presenter and the editor. Send it to someone and they need nothing at all.

qm (Y Combinator)

qm is an open source agent harness built by Y Combinator Software and released under the MIT License. Its own one-liner: "A multiplayer agent harness for work. In Slack and on the web."

varlock

varlock is an Open Source tool for managing environment variables, built by DMNO Inc. and released under the MIT License. Its tagline says the whole thing: "AI-safe .env files: Schemas for agents, secrets for humans."

Voice Clone Lab

Voice Clone Lab clones a voice from a few minutes of audio and generates speech locally on your own GPU. Give it 5 to 15 minutes of clean speech and it fine-tunes Qwen3-TTS into a personal voice model you drive from a CLI or a web UI. By tetsuo-ai, Apache-2.0, Python.

Buzz

Buzz is a self-hosted workspace where humans and AI agents are members of the same community, built by Block on top of Nostr. Open source, Apache 2.0, Rust backend, React desktop client, Flutter on mobile.

Microsoft Teams AI Agents

Microsoft's pitch for agents in Teams is that the agent stops being an app you open and becomes a participant in a conversation you're already having. The tooling is the Teams SDK (formerly Teams AI Library), now the recommended path for all new Teams development — agents, bots, tabs, message extens

Agent-Native Product Decomposition

Agent-native product decomposition is the practice of breaking a product or service into three primitive layers (sensors, actuators, logic) and assigning each layer to whichever computing paradigm fits it best: classical Software 1.0 code, Software 2.0 neural networks, or Software 3.0 LLM-based reas