Building an Intern

kept by eddie jul 03

Building a practical Slack agent required 100k lines of TypeScript and four months of iteration to handle serverless constraints, credential management, and secure tool orchestration.

A Year Of Vibes
Armin Ronacher reflects on 2025 as a year of agentic coding tools like Claude Code, which replaced much of his direct programming, and discusses the cultural, technical, and social challenges this shift presents for software engineering.
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How we cut build times by two-thirds by deleting our CMS
Sentry cut build times from 14 to under 4 minutes by replacing its headless CMS with Astro, Markdown files, and Claude Code skills for content management.
also on Sentry, Vercel, #open-source, #developer-tools
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer - Roman Imankulov
A fake recruiter sent a LinkedIn job candidate a GitHub repo with a backdoor that executes on npm install by running a remote-controlled command payload hidden in a test file.
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Introducing npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform - Vercel
Vercel open-sourced Chat SDK, a TypeScript library for building chatbots across Slack, Discord, Teams, and more from a single codebase.
also on Slack, Vercel, GitHub, #open-source, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Don’t code alone. Slack Code is live. Humans and agents. Same channel. Same work. Launching today with agents from @AnthropicAI, @github, @C
Slack Code launches, enabling human developers and AI agents from Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition, and Vercel to collaborate in the same channel.
also on Slack, Vercel, GitHub, #developer-tools