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TLDR DEV 2026-03-27

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01GENERAL

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HOW TO EVALUATE AGENTIC SECURITY SOLUTIONS

At this point, you've heard it everywhere: AI code is introducing vulnerabilities faster than legacy tooling can handle. And you've also heard of a dozen tools that promise to solve that problem. Now what?

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02ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

HARNESS DESIGN FOR LONG-RUNNING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Anthropic engineers overcame limitations of AI like context anxiety and poor self-evaluation by implementing multi-agent architectures, including a GAN-inspired generator-evaluator loop. This system used structured feedback, explicit grading criteria, and contextual handoffs (or later, improved model capabilities) to guide AI during long-running development.

anthropic.com28 min read

WE REWROTE JSONATA WITH AI IN A DAY, SAVED $500K/YEAR

Reco had large compute costs and latency due to its Go pipeline calling JavaScript JSONata processes over RPC for billions of events. So, they used AI to rewrite JSONata into 'gnata,' a pure-Go implementation, in just seven hours for $400 in tokens. This new solution delivered a 1,000x speedup on common expressions and eliminated $500K/year in expenses.

reco.ai5 min read

REDUCING OUR MONOREPO SIZE TO IMPROVE DEVELOPER VELOCITY

Dropbox reduced their 87GB monorepo to 20GB after discovering that Git's delta compression quirk was causing translation files to bloat pack files. By performing a tuned server-side repack, they slashed clone times from over an hour to under 15 minutes.

dropbox.tech12 min read

03OPINIONS & ADVICE

BUILDING SHARED CODING GUIDELINES FOR AI (AND PEOPLE TOO)

As AI agents increasingly write code, organizations must develop explicit coding guidelines for consistency and maintainability within enterprise codebases. These guidelines need to be prescriptive, covering fundamental ground rules like tech stack and methodologies, along with specific decisions on naming conventions, code layout, and error handling.

stackoverflow.blog11 min read

WHAT CONSTRUCTION AT A TRAIN STATION TAUGHT ME ABOUT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

An engineer observed construction at a live train station and realized that software engineering shares the same core challenge: simultaneously keeping systems running while improving them. True software engineering is not measured by lines of code but by the ability to navigate complexity, manage trade-offs, and apply skills like system thinking and communication under constant constraints

engineering.leanix.net4 min read

04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

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COG

Cog is a plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code that allows it to build and maintain its own persistent memory using familiar Unix tools like `grep` and `git diff`. It operates through a set of plain-text conventions and skills that guide Claude in structuring a three-tier memory system and performing actions like reflection and condensation.

github.comGitHub repository

EDITOR

The Pascal Editor is a 3D building tool using React Three Fiber and WebGPU for creating architectural projects through a modular Turborepo architecture. It has a flat Node hierarchy managed by Zustand, enabling real-time geometry updates and interactive 3D design.

github.comGitHub repository

SUPERSPLAT EDITOR

The SuperSplat Editor is a free, open-source, web-based tool designed for inspecting, editing, optimizing, and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

MY MINUTE-BY-MINUTE RESPONSE TO THE LITELLM MALWARE ATTACK

An engineer discovered and responded to a supply chain attack on the LiteLLM PyPI package, which began as a routine investigation into a frozen laptop. Using Claude Code, they quickly identified the malicious `litellm_init.pth` file designed to steal credentials, exfiltrate data, and establish persistence. From the first symptom to public disclosure and reporting to PyPI security and LiteLLM maintainers, the entire incident was resolved in just 72 minutes.

futuresearch.ai18 min read

FROM SKEPTIC TO CONVERT: HOW FIELDY ADOPTED EXPO FOR THEIR AI WEARABLE

Fieldy (an AI wearable app relying heavily on BLE and background audio) was skeptical of Expo adding overhead, but migrated and cut app size by 25%. The gains came from Expo Atlas-guided bundle cleanup (removing bloated date/calendar libs, fixing lodash tree shaking, and deleting an 18MB bundled SF Pro font), replacing XHR/blob hacks, and fully automating deployments with EAS Workflows.

expo.dev10 min read

MODEL COLLAPSE IS ALREADY HAPPENING, WE JUST PRETEND IT ISN'T

Model collapse, where AI models degrade over time, is already happening as new systems are increasingly trained on data generated by previous AI models. This recursive process smooths out rare and diverse patterns, leading to a loss of variance and homogenization in outputs.

links.tldrnewsletter.com6 min read