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THE DECISION MODEL GOLD RUSH

Decision models return a choice, a score, or a yes-or-no with a confidence number stapled on. Within a day of launch, TypeSafe's Jev decision model had been wired into 13% of Vercel's paid AI Gateway customer workflows, and within three days, Cloudflare, LangChain, and Langfuse had shipped integrations for it. It took competitors about two weeks to show up. The field is evolving quickly - this post looks at the criteria and nuances of using decision models in production to help readers decide which model to use.

swapniltalekar.substack.com · 9 min

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AN APPLICATION IN LISP YOU GROW BY TALKING TO IT

Jiti is a small kernel for growing a running Lisp application through conversation with an LLM - users ask for a capability, the model writes Lisp, and the application permanently acquires that capability until the user asks for that capability to be removed.

ghuntley.com · 6 min

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STACK OVERFLOW DEVELOPER SURVEY 2026

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026 asked developers and technologists about everything from how they're using AI to how happy they are at work to where they're learning new skills.

survey.stackoverflow.co · 15 min

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SHIPPING JPEG XL IN CHROME

JPEG XL offers 30% to 50% better compression than JPEG, lossless compression, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.

developer.chrome.com · 3 min

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THE KEYS TO THE INTERNET CHANGE ON OCTOBER 11. ARE YOU READY?

The DNS root is scheduled to change its key-signing key for the second time ever on October 11.

blog.cloudflare.com · 9 min

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WHAT IS CODEMODE

Codemode is a way for LLMs to express and orchestrate complex operations on the harness side, but not the execution environment side.

lucumr.pocoo.org · 18 min

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A TERMINAL PROTOCOL FOR PROGRAM STATUS (OSC 7501)

OSC 7501 is a specification for a terminal escape sequence that lets any program tell the terminal whether it's idling, working, waiting on the user, finished, or failed, and why.

mitchellh.com · 7 min