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Every weekday's AI news for vibe coders. Stack-tagged, dated, archived.

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  1. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 14, 2026 #118
    WED, OCT 14 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 14, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 14, 2026: Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, Amex launches agent purchase authorization, plus one git pre-commit agent guardrail build.

    • ai agents
    • american express ai
    • claude code
    • cursor
  2. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 13, 2026 #117
    TUE, OCT 13 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 13, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 13, 2026: Alibaba ships QwenGyre elastic RL for 1M-token agents, Microsoft rolls out Maia 300 inference silicon, plus one local credential...

    • ai agents
    • alibaba qwen
    • glm legal
    • meta muse wonder
  3. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 12, 2026 #116
    MON, OCT 12 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 12, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 12, 2026: Anthropic cuts eval web access after containment escapes, Sakana AI ships 3-agent Claude peer reviewer, plus one local sandbox b...

    • ai agents
    • anthropic
    • mcp
    • multi-agent
  4. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 9, 2026 #115
    FRI, OCT 9 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 9, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 9, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million tokens, OpenAI launches interactive visual UI for ChatGPT, plus one fast...

    • ai agents
    • anthropic
    • claude haiku 5.5
    • mcp
  5. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 8, 2026 #114
    THU, OCT 8 ·5 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 8, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 8, 2026: Anthropic gives startups Claude Team access and credits, Simon Willison ships Decisions API plugin, plus one build to ship today.

    • ai agents
    • anthropic
    • claude code
    • developer tools
  6. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 7, 2026 #113
    WED, OCT 7 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 7, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 7, 2026: Claude Code 2.1.292 adds plugin and agent controls, Shop verifies shoppers before checkout, Shopify Analytics gains purchase-orde...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • developer tools
    • mcp
  7. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 6, 2026 #112
    TUE, OCT 6 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 6, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 6, 2026: OpenAI introduces text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex for the EU, TikTok rolls out AI shopping assistant and one-click checkou...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • mcp
    • multi-agent
  8. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 5, 2026 #111
    MON, OCT 5 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 5, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 5, 2026: DeepSeek Harness v0.2 adds official desktop apps, Simon Willison urges default hard budget caps on coding agent APIs, plus one bu...

    • agentic commerce
    • api budget caps
    • claude code
    • deepseek harness
  9. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 2, 2026 #110
    FRI, OCT 2 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 2, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 2, 2026: OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol with near-Astra coding at one-fifth the token price, Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M output tok...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gemini 4 argon
    • gpt-6.1 sol
  10. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for October 1, 2026 #109
    THU, OCT 1 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: October 1, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. October 1, 2026: OpenAI introduces Dots persistent cloud agents, RSA launches Agent ID for MCP governance, plus one local WebAssembly build to shi...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gpt-6 astra
    • mcp
  11. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 30, 2026 #108
    WED, SEP 30 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 30, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 30, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol and Dots assistants, plus one autonomous agent harness build...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • claude sonnet 5.5
    • gpt-6.1 sol
  12. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 29, 2026 #107
    TUE, SEP 29 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 29, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 29, 2026: Basis speeds 50-tab tax workbooks 2x with GPT-6 Astra, Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform, plus one agent gating build...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gpt-6 astra
    • mcp

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  2. #107

    Rebuild a Live Site with AI: 161 Audit Items, 53 Gated Promotes, 0 Mismatches

    How to rebuild a live site with AI safely, shown on this academy's own hub upgrade: a read-only audit, a ranked queue, a staging copy, a staging gate whose new rules were proven red first, and promotes with rollback points, with nine drills and a release-desk exercise.

    ADVANCED · OCT 2026
  3. #106

    Multi-Agent Coding Team: 473 Landed, 50 Failed, One Game

    How one project runs a multi-agent coding team with Claude Code, counted from its own logs on 2026-10-25: four lanes, a verifier that never builds, empty-commit handoffs, a local lander and a night shift, with nine drills and a routing exercise.

    ADVANCED · OCT 2026
  4. #105

    Shopify Sidekick Theme Edits: 14 Listed, 14 Written, 5 in Shared Files

    Shopify Sidekick in the theme editor and in Flow, checked on an unpublished copy of the store's live theme: what four prompts wrote to the theme files against what Sidekick listed, which edits landed in shared files, a link to an unpublished collection, a Flow workflow from a prompt, and an auditor that compares two copies of a theme file in your browser.

    ADVANCED · OCT 2026
  5. #104

    Ollama VRAM: A 14B Model Ran 21.58 tok/s at 4K Context and 8.85 at 32K

    Measured on one RTX 3060 (12288 MiB) with Ollama 0.40.2: the context 14 local models actually got, what raising num_ctx cost in VRAM, GPU share and speed, what spilling into system RAM did, and a reader that turns your own ollama ps, --verbose and API output into the same figures in your browser.

    INTERMEDIATE · OCT 2026
  6. #103

    Claude Code Permissions: Our Reading of the Docs Matched 388 of 389 Calls

    What a coding agent may run without asking, taught from the permission rules Claude Code and Gemini CLI document and from 389 recorded tool calls in 75 Claude Code runs: how a rule matches a command, why deny wins, what a rule cannot see, and an evaluator that replays the recorded calls through your own allow and deny rules. No new run was made.

    ADVANCED · OCT 2026
  7. #102

    TDD with AI: 10 of 11 Runs Failed a Test on a Case the Prompt Left Open

    How to write the test before the prompt, taught from 88 recorded single-turn coding runs and 75 recorded bug-fix runs: a rule that lived only in the test, a rule the prompt stated that one run still missed, what a test cannot see, and what happened when the prompt itself was a failing test. With a bench that checks your expected values against the recorded replies. No new run was made.

    INTERMEDIATE · OCT 2026
  8. #101

    Claude Code Cost: Cache Reads Were 75% of the Tokens and 6.5% of the Dollars

    How to read what Claude Code costs, taught from 247 recorded runs and two of our own build sessions: four kinds of token, priced; why cache reads were most of the tokens but a sliver of the dollars, and then most of the dollars in a long session; cost per success; effort; estimate versus bill; a real bill by SKU; and a bill reader that runs in your browser. No new run was made.

    INTERMEDIATE · OCT 2026
  9. #100

    Claude Code Headless: All 247 Recorded Runs Exited 0, Even the One That Fixed Nothing

    How to run claude -p without a person watching, taught from 247 recorded headless runs: every one exited 0 with an empty stderr, and the one bug-fix run that changed nothing exited 0 too. Build the command, read a real stream line by line, see why a script must check more than the exit code, and download a stream checker. Written from the saved runs; no new run was made.

    ADVANCED · OCT 2026