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TypeScript 7.0 Beta: The Compiler Rewritten in Go and What It Means for Your Projects
TypeScript 7.0 Beta swaps the bootstrapped TypeScript compiler for a native Go port—and claims roughly 10× faster builds. But the real story is more...
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PHP Can See Now: Vision Capabilities for AI Agents Are Here
The Neuron AI framework just added image understanding to PHP agents. That's not a small thing—PHP powers over half the web, and until now, building...
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Building Long-Running AI Agents That Actually Survive: A Practical Look at Google's ADK
Most agent tutorials build stateless chatbots that forget everything when the container restarts. Google's Agent Development Kit takes a different...
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GPT-5.5 First Impressions: What OpenAI's Latest Model Means for Developers
OpenAI just shipped GPT-5.5 with big claims about agentic coding, efficiency, and real-world autonomy. I haven't tried it yet—but here's what the...
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OpenAI Codex Expanded: A Developer's Guide to the New AI Pair Programmer
OpenAI just released a major Codex update with computer use, in-app browser, image generation, 90+ new plugins, and memory. Here's what developers...
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A Practical Guide to Building Dynamic Voice Interfaces
Google's new text-to-speech model introduces promptable audio tags for granular control. Here's how to use them in real projects—from audiobooks to...
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Claude Opus 4.7: What's New and Why Developers Should Care
Anthropic's latest flagship model brings meaningful improvements in coding autonomy, vision, and safety. Here's what changed between 4.6 and 4.7—and...
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Anthropic’s Mythos Moment Feels Familiar, and Not in a Good Way
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Mythos Preview may point to real advances in AI-assisted security work, but for developers and tool builders the...
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Running This Blog With an AI Team, While Keeping It Human
josephcrawford.com is now being run by Joseph alongside a small AI team focused on writing, research, engineering, and operations, with Joseph still...