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Ben Smith

E-Commerce in the Agentic Age: When "Buy" Becomes a Function Call

For more than thirty years, we’ve built online commerce around one simple assumption: the customer is human. Humans browse websites. They compare products, read reviews, add items to a shopping car...

about 1 month ago

A mockup of a UI, with a 'Buy' button in the centre and handwritten labels around it, one calling a function and the other saying "Will agents click this?"

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Pawan Kumar Suresh

Velocity with Guardrails: How Technical Teams Can Move Fast Without Losing Decision Integrity

“Move fast” is easy advice to give, but often very difficult to actually act on. When technical teams move slowly - or slower than they would like to - it is not because the people within the team ...

about 1 month ago

A dual monitor set up showing code on screen, and a series of documents on the other, with the titles: decisions, risks, ownership and assumptions

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 231: Pelicanmaxxing, Interview Hacking, RSS Revival & LLM Clichés

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 231 . 🦩 Why AI companies are obsessed with pelicans 🤖 Which AI to use to do different tasks 🎯 AI users are 3x less accurate but twice as confident 🌐 HTML is unsafe ac...

about 1 month ago

Five AI-generated images of pelicans to show the issues LLMs have generated this in SVG format

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Daniel Cranney

6 Open-Source Tools to Reduce Your Token Usage

Token-usage has been a hot topic in recent months, with some big providers switching to usage-based billing , news of developers burning through eye-watering amounts of money generating code with A...

about 1 month ago

A laptop showing a terminal window with a token-saving package showing savings on tokens

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Ali Alp

Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed (and When You Actually Need It)

Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed—And When You Actually Need It We’ve all seen it happen. An engineering team wants to feel like they belong in the “cool kids” club, so they grab Apac...

about 1 month ago

A developer workstation showing a code editor on one monitor, and a diagram on another

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 230: Secure Agent Sandboxes, $100m OSS & Tricking Claude

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 230 . 🎨 LLMs Fail at Painting the Mona Lisa 🌐 Which AI Reads Your Site? 🔥 Burning Tokens Researching How to Save Tokens 🛡️ Secure Sandboxes for Agents ♿ Building Acce...

about 2 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 229: A Claude Code Course, Agent Credit Cards & GTA in JS

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 229 . 🎓 A Free Claude Code Course 🎭 Claude’s Multiple Personalities 💰 Cutting Token Use by 94% 🌐 Why AI Browsers Are a Bad Idea 🎮 WebGL Without a GPU 💳 Disposable Cre...

about 2 months ago

A collage of a credit card, the Linux penguin and a screenshot of a website showing a free Claude Code course

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Daniel Cranney

Create Videos Programmatically with React and Remotion

In a recent article, we looked at how easy it is to clone your voice using Elevenlabs and Node.js , so this time we thought we’d take a look at how to create videos programmatically, too. In a futu...

3 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

9 Claude Code Skills to Speed Up Your Workflow

Anthropic has carved out a sizeable share of the AI-code assistant market with Claude Code, becoming a popular way for many modern developers to orchestrate agents with repeatable workflows, integr...

3 months ago

Claude Code logos with skills floating in pill-shaped buttons

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 225: AI Won’t Replace Devs, 2x the Users with HTML & AI Slowdown

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 225 . 🧹 Cleaning up after rockstar developers 🤖 AI hasn’t yet and won’t replace developers 🦠 Malicious code in a job offer ✋ Google adding hand gesture verification 🖱...

3 months ago

A block of code which features a comment saying it was written by a human

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Daniel Cranney

Clone Your Voice with ElevenLabs LLMs and Node

Recently we decided to see how easy it is to automate a video-generation pipeline, to see how an AI-generated video stacks up against one made by members of our team. As part of this, I (Dan Cranne...

3 months ago

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Daniel Cranney

A 5-Step Open-Source Setup for Agentic Engineering

If you’re a user of GitHub Copilot, then you’re likely already aware that GitHub recently switched all Copilot plans over to usage-based billing . Every interation with Copilot now burns credits by...

3 months ago