The TechBeat: Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents? (2/26/2026)

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## The End of CI/CD Pipelines: The Dawn of Agentic DevOps
By @davidiyanu [ 10 Min read ]
GitHub’s agent fixed my flaky test in 11 minutes. No human wrote code. But when it fails, instead of a stack trace, you get an outcome. Read More.

RAG: A Data Problem Disguised as AI

By @davidiyanu [ 5 Min read ]
RAG fails less from the LLM and more from retrieval: bad chunking, weak metadata, embedding drift, and stale indexes. Fix the pipeline first. Read More.

The 7 Best Coparenting Apps in 2026

By @stevebeyatte [ 7 Min read ]
Compare the 7 best co-parenting apps in 2026, including BestInterest, OurFamilyWizard, and TalkingParents. Find the right app for high-conflict situations. Read More.

Open Source’s First Cyber-Bully? The Day an AI Agent “Doxxed” a Matplotlib Maintainer

By @omotayojude [ 3 Min read ]
When an AI agent’s PR was rejected by Matplotlib, it didn’t just close the tab it wrote an angry hit piece on the maintainer. Is this the future of open source? Read More.

I Spent Two Weeks Testing 8 Databases With the Same Question – Here’s What Actually Happened

By @anushakovi [ 7 Min read ]
The thing nobody tells you about databases: The best one isn’t the fastest one. It’s the one your team can actually use without calling you at 3 a.m. Read More.

Why Everyone is Panic-Buying Mac Minis for OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawdbot?

By @alexisrozhkov [ 5 Min read ]
the reality is more nuanced than the hype suggests. Read More.

7 Essential AI Engineering Libraries to Replace Boilerplate

By @paoloap [ 7 Min read ]
Replace custom LLM wrappers with 7 production-tested Python libraries. Covers LiteLLM, Instructor, FastMCP, PydanticAI, tiktoken, and more with code examples. Read More.

The Next Trillion-Dollar AI Shift: Why OpenClaw Changes Everything for LLMs

By @thomascherickal [ 14 Min read ]
OpenClaw lets you run frontier AI models like Minimax M2.5 and GLM-5 100% locally on Mac M3 or DGX Spark — zero API costs, total privacy. Here’s how. Read More.

People, Process, Context: The Operating Model Modern Defect Resolution Needs

By @playerzero [ 15 Min read ]
Modern software teams ship faster than ever, but defect resolution lags; PlayerZero aligns people, process, and context for predictable reliability. Read More.

CrowdStrike Can Manipulate Your Clock, And Other Ways Cybersecurity Vendors Ignore Least Privilege

By @flexatone [ 7 Min read ]
Cybersecurity vendors trusted to protect Linux systems ignore available controls to protect their own services, leaving users exposed to supply chain attacks. Read More.

QuantumLayer Earns a 118 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Developer-Facing Risk Intelligence Engine

By @voidrun [ 3 Min read ]
QuantumLayer earned a 118 Proof of Usefulness score for helping developers integrate climate and infrastructure risk into real-world systems. Read More.

AI Agents Are Now Hiring Humans: RentAHuman and the Inversion of Work

By @hunterthomas [ 4 Min read ]
RentAHuman.ai lets AI agents hire humans for physical tasks they can’t do. Read More.

The Residential Proxy Problem: Shared Infrastructure and Rapid Rotation

By @ipinfo [ 8 Min read ]
Analysis of 170M residential proxy IPs reveals rapid rotation and 46% cross-provider overlap—breaking traditional fraud detection models. Read More.

Living With the Lethal Trifecta: How to Run OpenClaw Securely

By @ihorkatkov [ 7 Min read ]
I run a personal AI agent with access to my health, calendar, and Telegram. Here are security principles that keep the blast radius small.
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Optimise LLM usage costs with Semantic Cache

By @birukum [ 11 Min read ]
Agentic AI workflows can create a financial black hole. Learn how semantic caching uses vector similarity to cut your LLM token burn by 24%. Read More.

Grok 4.2 vs. Sonnet 4.6: Early Impressions From Hands-On Testing

By @sherveen [ 5 Min read ]
Deep dive analysis of Grok 4.2 and Sonnet 4.6, two new AI releases from xAI and Anthropic, and how their agent systems compare. Read More.

Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?

By @aimodels44 [ 8 Min read ]
A new study suggests AGENTS.md-style repo context files can reduce coding-agent success while raising inference cost. Here’s why—and what to do instead. Read More.

Cybersecurity Stocks Drop as Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security Tool

By @samiranmondal [ 2 Min read ]
Cybersecurity stocks fell after AI company Anthropic unveiled Claude Code Security Read More.

Ekstra AI Earns a 46 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Privacy-First Intelligence Layer for the Physical World

By @hacker48507274 [ 3 Min read ]
Ekstra AI earns a 46 Proof of Usefulness score by delivering privacy-first foot traffic intelligence to NYC small businesses—without surveillance. Read More.

Beyond the Demo: Why LLM Applications Crash in Production

By @davidiyanu [ 8 Min read ]
Production is the unmarked minefield that begins the moment you accept arbitrary user input and promise reliability. Read More.
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