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As announced in this blog post on June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals. Google is unifying its AI terminal tools by transitioning the c

The most popular AI coding skills right now

8 days ago

Introduction It's crazy to me that some GitHub repos, that were just created in the last year, have more stars then some of the most popular programming frameworks out there. At the time of writing, Superpowers, is around 226,000, ahead of the Vue repo and way ahead of Next.js. A separate repo bas

Run GLM-5.2 Locally: The Open Model Nobody Can Ban

9 days ago

On June 9, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — the most capable coding model the industry had ever seen. Three days later, the U.S. government ordered it offline for every user on Earth. No warning. No transition period. One directive, and the frontier vanished overnight. 📖 Read the full version wit

Headroom: Cut Your LLM Token Usage by Up to 95% Without Changing Your Answers

20 days ago

If you're building AI agents or running LLM pipelines in production, you already know the pain: tool outputs, logs, RAG chunks, and conversation history pile up fast. Before you know it, you're burning through tokens at a rate that makes your billing dashboard uncomfortable to look at. Headroom is a

PewDiePie built an open-source AI workspace, and the point is bigger than the hype

20 days ago

PewDiePie launching an open-source AI project sounds like one of those internet headlines you have to read twice. But it is real. Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has released a project called Odysseus through the GitHub account pewdiepie-archdaemon. The repo describes it as a self-hosted

Join the June Solstice Game Jam: $1,000 in prizes!

20 days ago

We're excited to kick off the June Solstice Game Jam, running from June 3 through June 21 and ending right on the solstice itself! Whether you're in the northern hemisphere marking the longest day of the year or in the southern hemisphere observing the shortest, the solstice is a global moment of tr

MarkItDown: Microsoft's Tool for Converting Almost Anything to Markdown

If you've been building LLM-powered applications, you've likely run into the same problem: your data lives in PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, and PowerPoint decks — but your AI pipeline expects clean text. Copy-pasting doesn't scale, and most conversion tools either strip too much structure or p

Free Model Providers to Use with Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent by NousResearch is an open-source AI agent that does something most frameworks do not: it learns from experience. It creates skills during use, refines its memory across sessions, and supports parallel subagents and a built-in cron scheduler. You can run it on a $5 VPS, a GPU cluster, o

Antigravity CLI: A Hands-On Guide to Google's Terminal Coding Agent

The AI coding agent space has been reshuffling fast. Anthropic has Claude Code, OpenAI has Codex CLI, xAI has Grok CLI, and now Google has retired Gemini CLI and replaced it with something bigger: Antigravity CLI, a Go-based terminal agent that shares its engine with the Antigravity 2.0 desktop appl

Join the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge: $3,000 Prize Pool!

Update: Winner Announcement Delayed Github "Finish-Up-A-Thon" Challenge Winner Announcement Delayed & General Challenge Timeline Updates Jess Lee for The DEV Team Jun 8 #de

Open Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents in 2026

It used to take a lot of effort to get your first PR merged in open source. Now you can ship something real in a weekend thanks to coding agents like Claude Code. But that also means the noise went way up. I saw the wave of openclaw repos a while back but the ratio of hype to actual maintenance is q

Understand Anything: Turn Any Codebase Into an Interactive Knowledge Graph

You join a new team. The codebase has 200,000 lines of code, no docs worth reading, and the one engineer who knew everything just left. Where do you start? That exact problem is what Understand Anything was built to solve. It is an open-source plugin (15k+ GitHub stars as of May 2026) that scans you

Graphify + code-review-graph: Build a Self-Updating Knowledge Graph for Claude Code and other AI ...

Every developer working with LLMs on a large codebase eventually hits the same wall: context windows are finite, but codebases are not. You start a new AI coding session, ask about the payment flow — and your agent starts re-reading dozens of files just to get oriented. Twenty thousand tokens evapor

How to Enable Windows K2 Performance Boost on Windows 11

What is Windows K2? Windows K2 is Microsoft's internal codename for a plan to address long-standing performance pain points in Windows 11. As part of this initiative, Microsoft is testing a hidden feature called the Low Latency Profile in the Windows 11 Insider Preview (Experimental Channel). The

My fully offline AI-assisted Linux development machine

Originally published at deepu.tech. One of my most popular posts of all time was when I wrote about my beautiful Linux development machine in 2019. I followed that up in 2021 with my sleek and modern Linux development machine. Since then, a lot has changed in my setup. I moved from Fedora and KDE to

⚔️ Go vs Java: The Minimalist vs The Enterprise Veteran

No sides. No agenda. Just two languages walking into a bar and us watching what happens. The Setup The Contenders A Quick Origin Story Language Philosophy: Complexity vs. Simplicity Performance: JVM vs Native Binary Concurrency: Goroutines vs Virtual Threads Ecosystem & Libraries: The Forest vs The

🧠 I Tried 100 Claude Skills. These Are The Best.

From PDF wizards to Slack-GIF generators, I went deep into Anthropic’s new Agent Skills ecosystem — mostly inside Claude Code, where the action really is. Here are the Skills actually worth installing, the Claude Code workflows that have quietly reshaped my dev loop, and the patterns that separate a

I Found LeetCode for Software Design, and It’s Awesome

Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article. If you're preparing for FAANG interviews, you already know that Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) and System Design are the two critica

RTK: Cut Your AI Coding Bill by 80% With One CLI Tool

If you use Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or any other AI coding assistant in your terminal, you are probably spending way more on tokens than you need to. RTK (Rust Token Killer) is an open-source CLI proxy that sits between your shell and your LLM and silently compresses what gets sent to the model

How to Run Claude Code for Free with OpenCode Models

This post was originally published on my Substack publication as How to Use Claude Code For Free With OpenCode Models. Yes, you can use Claude Code for free by routing it through a small Cloudflare Worker and pointing that Worker at a free OpenCode Zen model like minimax-m2.5-free. Claude stays the

The Best LLMs for Agentic Coding in 2026 (Real-World, Not Just Benchmarks)

It's May 2026 and there are a lot of coding models to choose from. Everything below is based on my personal experience running them in real agent loops - Claude Code, Copilot, and OpenCode, backed up by benchmark data and what other people are actually saying on Reddit. Benchmark column uses SWE-ben

Join the Gemma 4 Challenge: $3,000 prize pool for TEN winners!

May 28 Update: Winner announcement delayed until June 18: read the update here Local AI is having a moment, and we want you to be part of it! Running through May 24, the Gemma 4 Challenge invites you to explore open models. With the release of Gemma 4, Google's most capable open model family yet, we

🔮 Hermes Agent 🤖 — Deep Dive & Build-Your-Own Guide 📘

A practical, end-to-end walkthrough of Nous Research's Hermes Agent: the principles it's built on, the architecture that makes it work, and a concrete checklist for building a similar self-improving agent yourself. Companion Reads: 🏗️ Building High-Quality AI Agents 🤖 — A Comprehensive, Actionable

CTF Writeup Silentium - HTB

This writeup details the complete attack chain for the Silentium machine, starting from a vulnerable Flowise AI instance to a privilege escalation using a recent Gogs vulnerability (CVE-2025-8110). Initial enumeration of the target IP revealed an Nginx web server redirecting to silentium.htb and an

📘 Spec Kit vs. Superpowers ⚡ — A Comprehensive Comparison & Practical Guide to Combining Both 🚀