How we closed 1,500 GitHub issues in one month

kept by eddie sep 11

The Next.js team deployed an AI agent called closability to investigate and close over 1,400 stale GitHub issues, reducing the backlog below 1,000 while preserving relevant reports.

Do All Your Agents Really Need Models Like Claude 5 or GPT-5.6?
Many AI agent tasks don't need frontier models; matching model capability to task complexity can cut costs by up to 75%.
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The machine never raises its voice
LLMs consistently prefer their own machine-generated literary passages over human-authored classics, valuing precision and restraint over voice and strangeness when evaluating literary quality.
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Introducing eve - Vercel
Vercel launches Eve, an open-source agent framework with durable execution, sandboxed compute, and built-in approvals for production-ready agents.
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GitHub - vercel-labs/eve-software-factory-template: Meet Foreman, an eve Software Factory.
Foreman is an AI-powered software factory template by Vercel Labs that automates development workflows using four specialized agents—Classifier, Analyst, Implementer, and Reviewer—to turn GitHub and Linear tasks into reviewed pull requests.
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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js on Vite in one week using AI, achieving faster builds and smaller bundles, but HN commenters are deeply skeptical about edge cases and long-term support.
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