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Fragments: May 14

Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic…

Sea's View on the Future of Agentic Software Development with Codex

Sea Limited's CPO explains why the company is deploying Codex across engineering teams to accelerate AI-native software development in Asia.

JAX Conference (German) Talk: Business Logic First: Escaping Java’s Bloat Addiction

Java projects are still plagued by outdated habits: excessive layers, unnecessary abstractions, more YAML/XML than code, tests for obvious things like getters, "Stats and Ticket-d riven Development" and systems where…

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs

The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and…

PwC is deploying Claude to build technology, execute deals, and reinvent enterprise functions for clients

PwC will roll out Claude Code and Cowork starting with U.S. teams and expanding toward a global workforce of hundreds of thousands of professionals, establish a joint Center of Excellence, and train and certify 30,000…

Bliki: Interrogatory LLM

When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to the user, guidelines on…

Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation

We’re partnering with the Gates Foundation to commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the…

Work with Codex from anywhere

Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.

Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching

Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations

Learn how new ChatGPT safety updates improve context awareness in sensitive conversations, helping detect risk over time and respond more safely.

Stop Waiting on JSON: Stream Structured Output with One Schema

Pass a Zod schema to useChat and get a typed `partial` and `final` for free. No more parsePartialJSON glue, no more onChunk wiring. TanStack AI now streams structured output end-to-end across OpenAI, OpenRouter, Grok,…

How Building AI Agents Has Changed in 2026

Twelve months ago, building an AI agent meant picking a framework, defining your tools, standing up a RAG pipeline, and writing a stack of glue code to wire it all together. That was the default playbook. The…