Today's edition highlights Claude's leap to 1M context, design principles behind code formatting standards and common developer mistakes for various tech stack.
We also explore complex human connections forming with AI assistants, changing search behaviors and more.
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Ampere ARM64: Understanding Crypto Libraries
Cryptography is the science of securing communication and data, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. It is widely used in web services, load balance proxies, databases etc.
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million context tokens in API, a 5x increase that enables large-scale code analysis, document synthesis, and context-aware agents. This change now challenges Gemini's 1M context niche that it enjoyed a monopoly on until now.
What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard? Python code formatter, Black has chosen 88 characters but is it a random number or there's some science to it? Glyph justifies it with various interesting tidbits.
The title refers to a list-style catalogue of faulty behaviors and common pitfalls across programming languages, frameworks, and tools. No matter your stack, you'll likely find something useful here.
This research study argues that while genAI has had an impact on search behaviors, majority of the users still default to familiar tools like Google Search, even when using AI in their workflows.
People are forming deep emotional attachments to AI assistants, using them for companionship and therapy. When companies update these models without warning like OpenAI did with GPT-5, some users reported symptoms similar to losing a close friend or partner.
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🧰 The Toolbox
Tools and products we're excited about today:
Archon
Archon is an operating system for AI coding assistants that provides a centralized knowledge base, task management, and Model Context Protocol server to enhance AI-powered development workflows across multiple coding tools.
Porffor is a JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries, creating tiny, fast executables that eliminate cold starts and significantly reduce costs on serverless platforms like AWS Lambda.
Airbook AI is an AI-native analytics workspace that connects to databases and business tools, automatically writes SQL queries, joins data across sources, and creates charts and dashboards through natural language commands.
Autumn simplifies Stripe integration for AI startups by providing a layer that manages pricing, subscriptions, usage tracking, and feature access with just three API calls, eliminating complex webhooks and backend logic.
Cryptography is the science of securing communication and data, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. It is widely used in web services, load balance proxies, databases etc.
