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AI Agents · News · Alex Rivera · Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min
Codex CLI 0.164 Starts Masking Your Credentials
OpenAI's Codex CLI 0.164.0 masks credentials in supported remote Bash and Zsh snapshot sessions and adds sign-in for enterprise MCP servers. It also brings ten prompt presets, inline /model and /permissions arguments, and fixes for compaction and session resume.
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Productivity · News · Alex Rivera · Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min
GitHub Apps Can Now Replace Enterprise PATs
Enterprise installations for GitHub Apps are generally available, with new permissions for policies, rulesets, 2FA, verified domains, IP allowlists and access restrictions. Most of the reasons to keep a classic PAT for enterprise admin work just went away.
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Productivity · News · Alex Rivera · Oct 6, 2026 · 12 min
Figma's Agent Left Beta and Started Billing
On-canvas agent is GA. Library guidelines, live teammate sessions, file search. Full seats on paid plans. Credits start 6 October.
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Productivity · News · Alex Rivera · Oct 6, 2026 · 11 min
GitHub Stacked PRs Are Generally Available
Preview repos merged 9% more code. Top-percentile repos cut time-to-merge 5%. Approvals now survive a rebase. Agents get gh stack.
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AI Agents · News · Alex Rivera · Oct 2, 2026 · 11 min
Copilot Will Now Pick the Model for You
Sonnet 5.5 is on Pro. GPT-6.1 Sol is on Pro+. HydraFusion is a research preview that coordinates models. Dynamic workflows and computer use are in CLI.
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AI Agents · News · Alex Rivera · Oct 2, 2026 · 9 min
Copilot Code Review Now Has an API
REST and GraphQL can request a Copilot review and set the effort. Balanced is the default. Lite still exists if you opted into it.
Read article →AI Agents · Analysis · Alex Rivera · Oct 2, 2026 · 12 min
Claude Code Now Ships as TypeScript Mods
A mod is a function on an event. Rewrite the prompt, block a tool, draw a pane. /diff is already a mod. They are not sandboxed.
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Productivity · News · Alex Rivera · Sep 19, 2026 · 13 min
The Agent Now Runs in Your Container
VS Code 1.138 can put the agent inside the project's Dev Container. Same Python, same Node, same CLI as CI. Docker is required. Podman is not.
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Productivity · Analysis · Alex Rivera · Sep 19, 2026 · 14 min
Zed Turned Off Pull Requests
They disabled GitHub PRs on Delta's own repo. The replacement is a shared agent thread. Git is still there. The review unit is the conversation.
Read analysis →AI Agents · Analysis · Alex Rivera · Sep 18, 2026 · 16 min
Raindrop Catches Agent Failures Live
Raindrop now has $50M total and a new Simulations product. It watches live agents for silent mistakes, then replays real traffic on every pull request before you ship.
Read analysis →Productivity · Guide · Alex Rivera · Sep 18, 2026 · 16 min
Chat to Set Up WhatsApp Business
Meta's new WhatsApp MCP lets Claude, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT create the account, verify the number, and test templates. You still sign in. The agent can also send.
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AI Agents · Comparison · Alex Rivera · Sep 17, 2026 · 14 min
Salesforce Splits the Stack: Koa In-House, Claude at the Door
Koa is a CRM reasoner Salesforce trains and hosts. Claudeforce puts 37 sales skills inside Claude. Same Dreamforce week; two control models.
View comparison →AI Agents · Analysis · Alex Rivera · 20 min
The Death of Chat: Why Type-Safe, Machine-Native AI Is Changing Software Engineering
Co-inventors of ChatGPT’s foundational RLHF have launched TypeSafe AI, shattering traditional LLM latency and cost limits with 'Jev'—a type-safe, machine-native model built to make instant, structured decisions directly inside codebases.
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