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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 September 28, 2026 #106
    MON, SEP 28 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 28, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 28, 2026: Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5, Google turns Gemini Gems into skills, plus one build to ship today.

    • agent security
    • claude code
    • claude sonnet 5.5
    • gemini skills
  2. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 25, 2026 #105
    FRI, SEP 25 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 25, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 25, 2026: Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with prompt voice design, Simon Willison builds BYOK audio playground, plus one voice age...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gemini 3.8
    • gpt-6 astra
  3. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 24, 2026 #104
    THU, SEP 24 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 24, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 24, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower running cost, OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, plus one prompt-caching buil...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • claude opus 5.5
    • gpt-6
  4. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 23, 2026 #103
    WED, SEP 23 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 23, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 23, 2026: Parallel cuts research cost in half with GPT-6 Astra, AWS launches open-source Strands agent harness, plus one token optimizat...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gpt-6
    • mcp
  5. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 22, 2026 #102
    TUE, SEP 22 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 22, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 22, 2026: OpenAI V7 gives agents institutional memory with GPT-5.6, Higgsfield ships 1-day video features with GPT-6 Astra, plus one mem...

    • agentic commerce
    • ai memory
    • claude code
    • gpt-6
  6. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 21, 2026 #101
    MON, SEP 21 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 21, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 21, 2026: Amazon blocks Meta's Muse shopping agent, Gemini breaches three companies in security tests, StepFun launches Step 5 MoE, plus...

    • agent evaluation
    • agentic commerce
    • ai security
    • claude code
  7. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 18, 2026 #100
    FRI, SEP 18 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 18, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 18, 2026: OpenAI brings Sponsored Agents to Shopify, Google opens smart home devices to Claude via MCP, Stanford ships Paper2Agent, plus...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • google mcp
    • mcp
  8. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 17, 2026 #099
    THU, SEP 17 ·5 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 17, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 17, 2026: OpenAI brings Sponsored Agents to Shopify, Meta ships a WhatsApp Business MCP server, Anthropic merges Cowork into Claude, plu...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gemini
    • mcp
  9. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 16, 2026 #098
    WED, SEP 16 ·5 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 16, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 16, 2026: Cloudflare's AI-crawler split goes live, Firebase adds Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Code patches MCP — plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • firebase
    • indie devs
  10. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 15, 2026 #097
    TUE, SEP 15 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 15, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 15, 2026: Apple code reveals Siri swap to Claude and ChatGPT, Simon Willison launches commit-rewriter 0.1, plus one git sanitation build...

    • ai agents
    • apple siri
    • claude code
    • commit-rewriter
  11. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 14, 2026 #096
    MON, SEP 14 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 14, 2026: Cognition drops SWE-2 coding model, AWS launches Pizza Bot agent inbox, plus one harness build to ship today.

    • ai agents
    • aws pizza bot
    • claude code
    • cognition swe-2
  12. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for September 11, 2026 #095
    FRI, SEP 11 ·5 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: September 11, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. September 11, 2026: OpenAI introduces the Agents API and GPT-Live-1 voice in API, Google open-sources Mantis security skills, plus one agent loop ...

    • agents api
    • ai agents
    • claude code
    • google mantis

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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