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May 2026
7 articles
Opus 4.8 Made Claude Smarter. Token Discipline Got Urgent.
I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments,
I set up Claude Code the way Anthropic showed at Code w/ Claude, and it'll change your workflow
Who better to copy than the team shipping it every day?
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees | Tom's Hardware
A new report claims AI is getting too expensive for big companies
What we learned using AI agents to refactor a monolith | 1Password
1Password used AI agents to help refactor a massive codebase. The project taught us several lessons about where agents are useful and where they fall short at each stage of the process.
The 4 Lines Every CLAUDE.md Needs
What Karpathy diagnosed, what 60,000 developers bookmarked, and why behavioral constraints beat feature checklists
Introducing fulgur: a blazing fast HTML-to-PDF engine in Rust — no browser required
How I built fulgur, a Rust HTML-to-PDF engine on top of Blitz + Krilla - 200-page docs in 190ms with 57MB memory, no Chromium required.
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.
April 2026
23 articles
Amplifying — Coding Agent Intelligence
Research on what dev tools AI coding agents actually recommend. Amplifying runs Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor against real repos and tracks which tools win by default.
Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Actually Costs | OpenRouter
The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
Embed Copilot Studio Agents in Canvas Apps with a PCF Control
The built-in Copilot control for Canvas Apps is deprecated. Use this PCF control to embed your Copilot Studio agent with custom styling and two-way communication.
Google makes DESIGN.md open source on its way to become a industry standard
Last week, I wrote a post titled ‘Design.md as a standard’ and it’s not like I have inside contacts at Google… or do I? Well, I do, but…
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
The Non-Technical Person's Guide to Building AI Automations
A step-by-step guide to building AI automations with nothing but plain English (two templates included).
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations - spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data
Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data.
AI Was Supposed to Make Engineers Less Burned Out. The Data Says Otherwise.
Every major AI company publishes research showing their tools save developers hours every week. Our...
12 Agentic Harness Patterns from Claude Code
The leaked source revealed how a production coding agent is actually assembled. Here are the design patterns behind it.
How does Claude Code *actually* work?
We keep talking about Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. But how do they actually work?Thank you Macroscope for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.l...
Claude Code Has an Internal Skill Nobody Knew About: /skillify
TL;DR: npx skills@latest add Vesely/skills/skillify and then just use it /skillify
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
Claude Mythos and the end of software
I....yeah. It's all over now.Thank you Blacksmith for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/blacksmithSOURCEShttps://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566...
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era \ Anthropic
A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.
Inside Anthropic’s biggest design choices
On the latest episode of the ‘By Design’ podcast, Joel Lewenstein, Anthropic’s head of design, shares how he thinks about the role of design (and designers) in a rapidly changing landscape.
Anthropic boasts revenue run rate of $30 billion as the Claude developer expands its partnership with Google and Broadcom - Sherwood News
Anthropic’s revenue run rate is higher than the trailing 12-month revenues of all but 129 S&P 500 companies....
Building Production AI with Microsoft’s Agent Framework: Credit Underwriting Case Study
How Typed Graphs, Multi-Agent Patterns, and Telemetry-Driven UIs Transform Complex Workflows
How Claude Code Builds a System Prompt
Context engineering in action.
An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night
After forgetting the nibbles, turning down my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, ‘Gaskell’ did at least get us to show up
10 Claude Code Skills Every Developer Needs in 2026
Most developers are using Claude Code at 20% of its potential. I was one of them.
How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure-from a former Azure Core engineer.