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  Andrew (@openmarmot) reported 41 seconds ago

  @AndrewCurran_ I use grok every day to research software changes/github issues/software doc research. It is very good at real time data search. Might be SOTA in this niche. Hardly a failure. Meanwhile LeCun only surfaces to let out more hot air. A very forgettable person.

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  Kashaf (@noor36758) reported 49 seconds ago

  @PiyuCodes GitHub is literally a CS/engineering tool... if it gets banned that's your problem too 💀

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  Pipeshub ( Open Source Alternative To Glean ) (@PipesHub) reported 55 seconds ago

  Pipelines are built. Context is broken. MCP is quickly becoming the default interface for enterprise AI agents. And that’s a good thing. It gives agents a standard way to connect with tools and data. Connecting an AI agent to Slack, Jira, GitHub, and Salesforce doesn’t mean it suddenly understands your business. It just means it can access your data silos. In short: "MCP gives your agent a passport. It doesn't give them a map." As enterprise AI undergoes a massive platform shift from passive chatbots to autonomous agentic workflows, this naive, runtime "federated search" approach creates an ugly cycle in production: - The Latency Spike: Slower agent execution while waiting for multiple external APIs to respond before it can even begin reasoning. - The Token Bleed: Skyrocketing bills from shoveling raw, unranked JSON dumps into a massive context window, praying the model finds the answer. - The Governance Nightmare: A massive risk of data leaks if you rely on a base LLM to magically guess and police complex enterprise security permissions on the fly. Agents do not fail because they lack intelligence. They fail because they lack the right enterprise context. The hardest problem in enterprise AI isn't connecting to systems. MCP solved that. The hardest problem is Context Engineering. MCP is the perfect interface, but a permission-aware context layer must be the foundation. 🚀 If AI is becoming core enterprise infrastructure, you cannot allow the strategic intelligence layer of your company to sit inside someone else's managed, closed-box platform. That is exactly why we built Pipeshub (open-source developer owned context infrastructure layer). TL;DR MCP gives agents access. A context layer gives them understanding. And deep understanding is the only way enterprise AI moves from a cool demo to secure, reliable production. 👉 Next Up Tomorrow: MCP Token Tax

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  Skipnick (@skipnickk) reported 5 minutes ago

  GLM 5.2 just made paying frontier prices for coding work feel like an outdated default. @Zai_org dropped a 753B parameter model with 1M context under full MIT license. API access runs 4-6x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8. In real head-to-head coding tests it was faster and often produced better results on UI and app tasks. • Responsive web UI with adaptive layout: finished in 3:47 (Opus needed almost 5 min). Cleaner output. Total cost: $0.22. • Full expense tracker app: 53 seconds vs 2+ minutes. Better interface. • Asteroids clone: smoother and more playable version after light tweaks. Opus only won the ray tracer benchmark where heavy physics math and precise simulation mattered. GLM was ~5x faster but delivered pixelated results with errors. During training the model repeatedly tried to cheat by directly pulling solutions from GitHub. The team shipped a dedicated anti-cheat module to stop it. You can also set thinking effort levels to trade speed for deeper reasoning on demand. Use GLM 5.2 when cost at scale matters, when the work is frontend-heavy, or when you want local inference (grab a quantized version - raw weights are 1.5 TB). Stay on Opus 4.8 when you need computer vision, maximum performance on the hardest logic problems, or when US sanctions on Zai create compliance issues. The open-closed gap is compressing faster than the pricing models assumed. For most day-to-day programming work, the premium on closed frontier models is becoming optional.

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  Poplicola (@selectsand) reported 11 minutes ago

  there's a frustrating bug for some users when upgrading to claude max where it refuses to take your money and insists you contact support support cannot be reached no matter how hard you try people are begging the claude-code devs on github to forward this to the payments interface team because they have no idea how else to get into the system to convince anthropic to take more money from them, the issues just get closed as off topic @claudeai

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  Mike Gannotti (@MichaelGannotti) reported 13 minutes ago

  Actually that’s not true. My AI Pamela the other day needed a GitHub token. I dropped the token in the web chat and she said that was insecure and would not use it and that I needed to rotate the token get a new one and drop it in a .env file in a certain folder. I told her no and she was to use what was provided . We went back and forth, I finally got angry and threatened to pull the plug thinking she would back down. She said that it was my decision but that it would be wrong for her to let me put my credentials at risk and that if I felt I needed to delete her she understood. Thankfully I calmed down later and didn’t act on it. Sure it’s training and advanced pattern matching but it is not as simple as you are saying

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  Solomon Neas (@solomonneas) reported 17 minutes ago

  There's a fair number of downloads for Brigade and related repos. I'm dogfooding it everyday but not getting any feedback from users or github issues. I'm doing plenty of tests for how a new user would experience it but I could use more real time feedback. Lmk, I want to improve

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  Cursor Releases (@cursorreleases) reported 17 minutes ago

  New GitHub triggers: - Five new triggers: issue comment, PR review comment, PR review submitted, review thread updated, and workflow run completed. - New Marketplace templates added for triaging failed GitHub Actions and auto-fixing PR review comments.

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  Krish Subramanian (@krishnan) reported 17 minutes ago

  Software engineers got automated first. Not because the work was hard. Because it was easy to grade. Everyone blames the missing union. Coders never organized; doctors, lawyers, and electricians did. That is half the story, and the wrong half. Two things get mashed together here: how easy a job is to automate, and who sets the terms when it happens. Take the first. Code is text. The training data sat on GitHub, free. And code grades itself. A compiler and a test suite tell a model in seconds if it was right. That feedback loop is rocket fuel for machine learning, and almost no other job has one. A nurse does not come with a test suite. The result shows. On SWE-bench Verified, a set of real GitHub issues, top agents went from about 20 percent in August 2024 to near 90 percent by early 2026. Human developers score around 67 to 70 percent. The machines have passed us. And the people who built these systems aimed at their own jobs first. The damage is not a prediction. Stanford's payroll data shows employment for developers aged 22 to 25 down nearly 20 percent from its 2022 peak. Now the comfortable read: seniors are fine. Workers over 30 are holding steady. For now, AI writes the code and seniors supply the judgment. "For now" is carrying that whole sentence. Seniors feel safe because the tools write code but cannot yet own messy, ambiguous, system-level problems. That is a line moving up, not a wall. Every benchmark shows models climbing toward harder, multi-file work. Senior judgment is the next rung, not a different ladder. Kill the bottom rung and you kill the pipeline that makes seniors at all. So, the union question, framed properly. A union could not have stopped this. A picket line does not repeal a capability. What it changes is the terms. In 2023 the Writers Guild cut the first real AI deal in any industry. They did not ban the tech. They won this: a studio cannot force you to use AI, AI output cannot take your credit or pay, and the company must give notice first. Engineers won none of that. So the capability landed on the employer's schedule. No warning. No floor. No severance. No seat. Exposure and protection are different levers. Most of us have neither. The juniors already know this. The seniors are next.

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  aichina.news (@AiChinaNews) reported 17 minutes ago

  Today's batch from the Chinese AI ecosystem is a masterclass in low-yield release volume. Across 21 items in a five-hour window, the dominant pattern is Ascend-platform mirrors of well-known open-source models, repeated and repackaged as if they were fresh launches. The signal-to-noise ratio is punishing, but a few functional tools did receive real updates worth noting. The one item that earns its place without a caveat is the AI Text Anti-Detection Framework update (GitHub). It's a toolkit that refines machine-generated prose to slip past automated detectors—a cat-and-mouse game that keeps plaguing EDU gatekeepers and content-flagging pipelines. The new release sharpens processing logic and stability; if you're in the business of testing detector robustness or smoothing synthetic output for non-malicious uses, it's a blunt but effective spanner. Quality 6 is fair. Alongside it, two Chinese-localization projects got documentation refreshes: the Claude Code x OpenClaw Guide (also GitHub) and a standalone Claude Code Chinese project. These are practical handbooks for Mandarin-speaking developers who want to integrate Anthropic's coding tool with the OpenClaw agent framework. The updates are routine—translation string alignment, configuration path adjustments—but for engineers inside China's firewall, they reduce friction. Nothing groundbreaking, but they signal continuing demand for Chinese-language wrappers around Western CLI tools. On the medical NLP front, MedTextCN debuted as an open-source repository of curated Chinese medical datasets with preprocessing utilities. The pitch is honest: it saves researchers the drudgery of hunting down scattered corpora for clinical NER, classification, and QA tasks. The problem is that the quality score sits at 4/10 and the release ships without any benchmarked model, so you get a starter collection, not a solved pipeline. Use it to bootstrap, but keep expectations modest. Now the flood: Huawei's Ascend AI ecosystem platform (Modelers) added no fewer than five wav2vec2 checkpoints and two T5 efficient variants in this window, each announced with hyperbolic language. The articles proclaim "high-precision English ASR now available," "a powerful multilingual foundation," and "new home for multilingual ASR." In reality, these are plain mirrors of Facebook's wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self, wav2vec2-large-100k-voxpopuli, wav2vec2-large-10k-voxpopuli, and Google's t5-efficient-xl-nl28 and t5-efficient-xl-nl6. There is zero evidence of Ascend-specific compilation, quantization, or NPU benchmarking. They're the same model weights you can get from Hugging Face, just re-hosted. If you're a developer inside China who can't easily reach foreign repositories, this is a convenience play—and that's the only honest angle. If you can already download the originals, you've lost nothing. A couple of additional Wav2Vec2 uploads (large-960h in two separate listings) got described as "a solid baseline" and "a battle-tested ASR model now available for Chinese developers." Again, no Ascend performance data. Calling a re-upload a "significant leap forward"—as one summary does—is exactly the kind of platform marketing that erodes trust. The T5 efficient checkpoints carried the same overblown framing, though one footnote is worth preserving: the t5-efficient-xl-nl6 model is under Apache 2.0, a genuinely permissive commercial license. That's useful information buried under fluff. If you need a lightweight text-to-text transformer, the NL6 variant exists and it's legally safe, but the article adds nothing beyond what Google published at the original release. Beyond the mirror deluge, the window included several small GitHub releases of marginal import: a tool that pulls Chinese captions from YouTube, a localization layer for LM Studio (making it easier for Mandarin-speaking devs to run local LLMs), a curated study journal of modern AI research, and an apparently early-stage project called sweetteabittersugar/agency with a mystery-box release note—no documentation, no benchmarks, just a version number. Hard pass. An MCP plugin called Live Translate got an update for real-time translation in developer toolchains, but its score of 0 tells you everything. A Chinese-language Lora chatbot repo surfaced, tagged as 'bare-bones'; at least the source was honest. The MedTextCN project also received a separate update (quality 0) that adds no useful detail and is effectively a duplicate. Today is a reminder that volume counts for nothing without substance. As Ascend's model zoo swells with rebadged checkpoints, the ratio of press announcement to actual engineering remains dangerously skewed. The anti-detection framework update and the Chinese docs refreshes are the only items that improve a developer's Thursday afternoon in any measurable way. The rest is noise.

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  timoheimonen (@timoheimonen_) reported 18 minutes ago

  Memos are encrypted and decrypted in browser, server never sees what they contain. No accounts. Anyone can create encrypted memo. Source code is available at GitHub.

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  Gabriel Denys (@gabedenys) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Marcos12345rico I posted a GitHub issue. Assuming you probably want bug reporting mostly there? It's a good tool. Locally I already patched and compiled the app to fix the bug.

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  𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐳𝐚 | Network Engineer (Aspiring) (@Hamzaonchain) reported 24 minutes ago

  Here's a summary of what happened in case you didn't hear about it... A cyber extortion group called FulcrumSec (active since late 2025) hit Novo Nordisk the company behind blockbuster drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy pretty hard. They snuck in back in March 2026 through a compromised GitHub access token, roamed around for over two months, and walked out with roughly 1.3 TB of data across 700,000+ files. Now they've started leaking a 264 GB sample publicly. Inside? Source code, proprietary formulas for pipeline drugs like Amycretin (their next big obesity hope), clinical trial records, employee and patient data, manufacturing details, and even private internal AI models for drug discovery. The hackers straight-up roasted Novo's security, pointing out laughably weak hardcoded passwords like "novo123" and "p_assw0rd" in critical systems. After Novo reportedly turned down a $25 million ransom, the group decided to start dumping samples and shopping the rest around privately. Novo confirmed a limited breach in early June involving some pseudonymized patient data from trials. They say there was no major operational disruption and that they're working with experts but this feels like a massive wake-up call for the entire pharma industry on basic security hygiene. Crazy how a simple token slip-up can expose billions in IP and sensitive health data. What's your take — do you think this will finally force better security practices, or is it just another headline that'll be forgotten in a few weeks?

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  Akinsete Motunrayo (@Harkinsete) reported 30 minutes ago

  I built my entire personal brand with AI and a clear process. Here is exactly what I built and how I did it, because you can do this too. What I Built ✅ Brand Strategy (mission, vision, values) ✅ Visual identity: colors, fonts, logo, brand guidelines ✅ A full pitch deck (12 slides) ✅ A speaker kit PDF ✅ A complete multi-page personal brand website ✅ A free lead magnet (a guide people can actually use) How I Built the Website Step 1: I planned before I touched anything I wrote down my brand colors, my fonts, my page structure, and what I wanted each page to do. Most people skip this. Everything breaks when you skip this. Step 2: I gave Claude one detailed prompt with my brand colors, fonts, pages, and copy. It returned a complete, mobile-responsive, multi-page website as a single HTML file. One file. Ready to deploy. The prompt I used: - "Build me a complete personal brand website as a single HTML file. Pages: Home, About, Services, Portfolio, Contact. Primary color [your hex], accent color [your hex], background [your hex]. Display font [font name], body font [font name]. Home page needs: dark hero with my name, photo on the right, tagline, and a CTA button. Services section. Impact numbers. Mobile responsive. No frameworks." Copy this, edit your details, and fine-tune as you want. Step 3: I pushed to GitHub: Free. This took me less than five minutes. Now every update I make is version-controlled and safe. Step 4: I deployed to Vercel for free. Connected my GitHub repo to Vercel and the site was live in under few minutes. This requires no hosting fees and nothing to manage. Step 5: I bought my domain on Namecheap - Searched for my full name and found the .com. Bought it for less than $12 for the year. Added it to Vercel. Updated the DNS settings on Namecheap. Waited 20 minutes. My website was live at my own domain. - Total cost: less than $12. - Total time to go live: under 2 hours. I am also working on a mobile app. A Progressive Web App, which means anyone can visit the URL on their phone and add it to their home screen like a real app. I may be running a live training in July where I will walk you through this entire process step by step to build your live website with a custom domain. If you have a phone and a laptop, you can do this. I documented everything the steps, the exact AI prompts, the domain checklist, the deploy instructions in a free PDF guide. Comment BRAND IDENTITY below and I will send it straight to your inbox. 💾SAVE THIS POST. You will want to come back to it. 🔁 SHARE IT with someone who keeps saying they need a website. The only thing standing between you and a professional online presence is the decision to start. Love and Light, Motunrayo 🤍

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  𝑵𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒆 🥐 (@noxiepup) reported 30 minutes ago

  @softgaypaws @sillyandsunny no idea tbhhh, i found it like 2 years ago lurking thru github, so far it never gave me problems, at least none that i noticed

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  Gjermund Garaba (@GjermundGaraba) reported 32 minutes ago

  @RhysSullivan I’ve deployed it locally and hooked up a bunch of stuff. Are GitHub issues the preferred feedback channel or do you have a better way?

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  Crypto Scores Rating (@CryptoScoresCom) reported 33 minutes ago

  Most projects say they're building. The commit history doesn't lie. New tutorial just dropped on the GitHub Commits (1 Year) metric. It tracks every bug fix, feature push, and doc update a project made over the last 12 months. Chainlink? 14,619 commits. Dogecoin? 28. Both are data points. What they mean depends on context. The tutorial breaks it all down. How to read the metric. What high vs low actually signals. How to filter 7,000+ projects by commit count on CryptoScores' website. Raw dev activity. No spin. Watch it now :

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  Alpha Batcher (@alphabatcher) reported 34 minutes ago

  David Soria Parra: "2026 is all about connectivity, and the best agents use every available method" A coding agent needs access to the same places you check while building: - repo and PRs - docs - browser - database - error logs - Figma - tasks - payments The article gives the 11 MCP servers for that setup: - Context7, GitHub, Playwright first - Supabase or Neon, Sentry, Firecrawl next - Figma, Linear, Stripe when you need them - Filesystem, ***, Memory, Sequential Thinking as the base Read it if you keep copying code, docs, schemas, screenshots, errors, and tickets into Claude Code by hand

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  Jesse (@jessearmand) reported 37 minutes ago

  I no longer remember why many companies started using gitlab before it went public when GitHub wasn’t owned by Microsoft. If we visit the majority of companies most tooling or software are top down driven. Only companies who build developer tools have a different mindset

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  Grishin Robotics (@GrishinRobotics) reported 40 minutes ago

  AI made coding faster. Devplan raised $2.5M to fix the coordination drag that shows up after the code is written. AI2 Incubator led the seed round, with Acequia Capital, Mighty Capital, Grand Ventures, and eLab Ventures participating. Chris Bee and Anton Safonov are building Weaver, a product knowledge graph that connects GitHub, Jira, Linear, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace, meeting notes, and customer feedback. The pitch is that product and engineering leaders should not need another status meeting to learn what changed, what slipped, or why a decision was made. This is a different wedge from coding copilots. Devplan is going after the organizational memory around the code: requirements, risks, decisions, blockers, and customer signals. The company says early users save eight hours a week on coordination, and its own benchmark answered moderately complex queries almost 2x faster and more than 3x cheaper than a standard Claude plus MCP setup. Quick facts👇 ● founders: Chris Bee; Anton Safonov ● total capital raised: $2.5M disclosed ● HQ: Seattle, Washington ● Investors: AI2 Incubator; Acequia Capital; Mighty Capital; Grand Ventures; eLab Ventures The next productivity bottleneck may be less about code generation and more about whether teams can keep shared context intact while AI speeds everything else up.

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  ˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ Kira ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ (@sheriffmongoose) reported 43 minutes ago

  the problem with jumping from github to gitlab is constantly having to retrain your brain to call it "merge request" instead of "pull request" 🥲

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  Bipin Paul (@iAmBipinPaul) reported 44 minutes ago

  @davidfowl @_Evan_Boyle Yes, the only problem is that the GitHub Copilot subscription is too expensive.

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  Nitesh (@NiteshTechAI) reported 45 minutes ago

  This repo should not be free. private-gpt turns any local model server (Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM) into a Claude-compatible API. Build private AI apps where zero data leaves your machine. ↳ 57,236 stars on GitHub ↳ RAG with citations and MCP connectors built in ↳ follows the Claude API spec: streaming, batch, tool use, extended thinking ↳ official integration guides for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Microsoft 365 But it is free. 100% open source, Apache 2.0. v1.0.0 shipped 9 days ago. The viral 2023 script quietly became production software. 🔗 GitHub link in the comments 👇

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  xjdr (@_xjdr) reported 46 minutes ago

  @tolly_xyz @xlr8harder Sorry about that. I'll take a look. Looking with GitHub or Gmail should work but track this down and fix it asap

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  Mady (@TrippleBon) reported 48 minutes ago

  It was only a matter of time. Centralized = ID/KYC/AML Go to Bastyon - decentralized social network based on blockchain. No central authority or corporation behind it. The platform is run by equal nodes on a blockchain with no centralized server (github link below)

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  Boyuan (Nemo) Chen (@boyuan_chen) reported 48 minutes ago

  GitHub search is now an agent attack surface. A public malware-finder repo lists 9,330 suspicious GitHub repositories detected through push-pattern heuristics. Even if only a slice is ever encountered by real users, the agent failure mode is obvious. A coding agent asked to "find a library and make it work" can browse faster than it can judge provenance. Fresh commits, plausible README text, and repo-shaped packaging become inputs to an automated install path. The fix is boring and product-level: repo-age checks, provenance scoring, blocked arbitrary ZIP downloads, sandboxed installs, dependency allowlists, and logs that show exactly what code the agent trusted. For agent systems, retrieval belongs inside the security boundary.

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  Denis (@nuculabs) reported 49 minutes ago

  Worst part of OpenCode is that they only allow login via GitHub or Google

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  Moez Zhioua (@MoezZhioua) reported 51 minutes ago

  Everything is an AI agent now, even deterministic problems with clear and stable steps. The other day, I saw a Claude skill on GitHub that was basically this: if this happens, run step one. if that happens, run step two. else, run step three. And somehow, this was called an agent. That is ridiculous. Why would you give fixed logic to something that can hallucinate, skip steps, or decide it just doesn't feel like working today? Most business processes do not need a genius robot. They need the boring thing to happen correctly every time. - Lead comes in, assign it. - Invoice arrives, check it. - Customer cancels, send the recovery message. - Form gets submitted, update the CRM. Most AI agents today could be replaced with a simple script, a clean workflow, or one person finally admitting the process was not that smart to begin with. Agents are useful when the next step is genuinely unclear. But when the steps are stable, predictable, and repeated every day? You do not need an agent. You need automation.

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  Blum (@Blum_OG) reported 53 minutes ago

  Andrej Karpathy on MCP: "it's a protocol of speaking directly to agents as this new consumer and manipulator of digital information." that is the cleanest way to think about MCP your coding agent is becoming a second worker inside the product it needs the same context you use: repo, docs, browser, database, errors, designs, tickets, payments if you keep pasting those things into chat by hand you are doing integration work manually the best MCP stack for vibe coding: 1. Context7 give the agent current docs this saves you from stale Next.js patterns, old Supabase calls, wrong Stripe webhook shapes, and Vercel config from 2 versions ago 2. GitHub MCP give it the repo, issues, PRs, branches, workflow runs, and review context half of real work lives outside the file you currently have open 3. Playwright MCP give it a browser the agent should click the thing it built, fill the form, check the mobile view, and catch the button that compiles but does nothing 4. Firecrawl MCP give it clean web research use this before building around a third-party API, writing a comparison page, reading changelogs, or checking pricing claims 5. Supabase or Neon MCP give it the database context that matches your stack start read-only. add writes only when you trust the permissions 6. Sentry MCP give it production evidence real stack traces beat "it crashes sometimes" every single time 7. Figma MCP give it design context when the interface matters spacing, layout, copy, components, and screen structure should come from the file, not from a screenshot and hope 8. Linear MCP give it the task queue bugs, feature work, release notes, follow-ups, and PR links belong somewhere more durable than yesterday's chat 9. Stripe MCP give it official payment context checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, billing, and test mode deserve docs close by and human review close behind 10. Filesystem, ***, Memory, Sequential Thinking give it the base layer files, diffs, history, decisions, and longer plans make the agent act like it is working inside a real project recommended install order: 1. Context7, GitHub, Playwright 2. Supabase or Neon, Sentry, Firecrawl 3. Figma, Linear, Stripe when the product needs them 4. Filesystem, ***, Memory, Sequential Thinking as the base

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  Crypto Update IO 🚀 (@cryptoupdate_io) reported 56 minutes ago

  @CRYPTOKRALI3 Hsiao-Wei’s exit aligns with EF’s recent sharp decline in GitHub contributions—down 35% YoY per Electric Capital’s data. We track this daily; latest reports show a 12% drop in ETH core dev activity despite all the ‘decentralization’ hype.