Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’
Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.
404media.co4 Aug 2026
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June 2026
8 articlesWhy ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is Out And ‘Valuemaxxing’ Is In
Tokenmaxxing appears to be on its way out as companies struggle with overspending on AI tokens. Now spend needs to be justified with clear outcomes.
forbes.com27 Jun 2026
Modern Agents Have Skills Now — Here’s How They Work in Copilot Studio
How Skills work in modern Copilot Studio agents: instructions and resources loaded on demand for specific scenarios, why you would modularize instructions into Skills, and when to use Skills versus instructions.
microsoft.github.io27 Jun 2026
I Built a Monster CLAUDE.md, And My Coding Agent Got Scary Good
towardsdeeplearning.com21 Jun 2026
Meet the new Copilot Studio: rebuilt for more complex, multi-step work | Microsoft Community Hub
A new streamlined authoring experience and modern AI core make it easier to build agents and workflows that deliver more consistent and reliable outcomes.
techcommunity.microsoft.com15 Jun 2026
To Preview or Not to Preview? Copilot Studio Reality Check
Microsoft has been steadily evolving Copilot Studio throughout 2026. With the launch of a new visual workflow canvas and an AI-driven agentic orchestrator, Microsoft has fundamentally reimagined the platform. This evolution moves Copilot Studio beyond basic conversational chat, transforming it into a robust hub for 'Work IQ' and autonomous, multi-step business execution. This article offers a […]
valeanu.xyz14 Jun 2026
AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
mcsweeneys.net13 Jun 2026
Netflix engineer Tejas Chopra creates Headroom, an open-source tool that compresses AI prompts to reduce token costs, and estimates it has saved users $700,000
Chopra, a Netflix senior engineer, built Headroom to prune redundant tokens from prompts before they reach language models. He estimates that as much as 90% of tokens are redundant. The tool, not an official Netflix project but already used by several Netflix teams and external projects, has been available since January and currently stands at v0.22, with 2,000 GitHub stars and over 120 forks.
hellomarvisaitoday.com10 Jun 2026
How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub - Azure DevOps Blog
For the past decade, Azure DevOps has powered software development at Microsoft, supporting some of our largest repositories and most complex engineering
devblogs.microsoft.com7 Jun 2026
May 2026
7 articlesOpus 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,
thenewstack.io30 May 2026
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?
xda-developers.com30 May 2026
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
tomshardware.com30 May 2026
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.
1password.com15 May 2026
The 4 Lines Every CLAUDE.md Needs
What Karpathy diagnosed, what 60,000 developers bookmarked, and why behavioral constraints beat feature checklists
levelup.gitconnected.com3 May 2026
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.
dev.to1 May 2026
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.
blog.pragmaticengineer.com1 May 2026AI
April 2026
12 articlesAmplifying — 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.
amplifying.ai29 Apr 2026AI
Opus 4.7's New Tokenizer: What It Actually Costs | OpenRouter
The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
openrouter.ai29 Apr 2026AI
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.
microsoft.github.io26 Apr 2026
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…
medium.com26 Apr 2026AI
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.
anthropic.com23 Apr 2026AI
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).
open.substack.com21 Apr 2026AI
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.
perthirtysix.com21 Apr 2026General
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.
bleepingcomputer.com20 Apr 2026Security
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...
dev.to20 Apr 2026AI
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.
generativeprogrammer.com19 Apr 2026AI
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...
youtube.com13 Apr 2026
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
medium.com11 Apr 2026AI
