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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 August 6, 2026 #070
    THU, AUG 6 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. August 6, 2026: MCP 2026-07-28 reaches Claude, Firebase adds new Gemini models, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • firebase
    • indie devs
  2. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for August 5, 2026 #069
    WED, AUG 5 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. August 5, 2026: MCP ships a stateless core, Claude Code auto-backgrounds long tool calls, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude agent sdk
    • claude code
    • indie devs
  3. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for August 4, 2026 #068
    TUE, AUG 4 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: August 4, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. August 4, 2026: Claude Sonnet 5's cheap-pricing window closes, EU and California enforce AI disclosure, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • ai compliance
    • claude code
    • indie devs
  4. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for August 3, 2026 #067
    MON, AUG 3 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: August 3, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. August 3, 2026: Claude Agent SDK adds inline subagents, MCP goes stateless, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude agent sdk
    • claude code
    • indie devs
  5. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 31, 2026 #066
    FRI, JUL 31 ·6 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: July 31, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 31, 2026: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna 80%, Nscale buys Anyscale, Gemini Robotics 2, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gemini
    • indie devs
  6. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 30, 2026 #065
    THU, JUL 30 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 30, 2026: Anthropic's new MCP spec, Kimi K3 open weights on Ollama, GPT Transcribe, plus one Claude Code build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • ai transcription
    • claude code
    • indie devs
  7. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 29, 2026 #064
    WED, JUL 29 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 29, 2026: MCP ships its stateless 2026-07-28 spec, Claude rolls out support, OpenAI open-sources a security CLI, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • indie devs
    • mcp
  8. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 28, 2026 #063
    TUE, JUL 28 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 28, 2026: Claude Opus 5 ships, Claude Code backgrounds long tool calls, Firebase Studio bumps Genkit to 1.22, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • firebase genkit
    • indie devs
  9. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 27, 2026 #062
    MON, JUL 27 ·5 min read

    AI News for Vibe Coders — Daily: July 27, 2026

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 27, 2026: Claude Cowork reaches mobile and web, the MCP 2026-07-28 spec hits release candidate, Kimi K3 open weights ship, plus one build to ...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • indie devs
    • mcp
  10. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 24, 2026 #061
    FRI, JUL 24 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 24, 2026: OpenAI ships Presence for enterprise agents, DeepSeek's legacy API IDs retire today, a distillation fight reaches the White House, ...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • indie devs
    • mcp
  11. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 23, 2026 #060
    THU, JUL 23 ·7 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 23, 2026: Claude Cowork records skills from your screen, a new agent-memory beta ships, the MCP spec hits release candidate, plus one build t...

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • claude skills
    • indie devs
  12. Vibe Code Academy daily AI news cover for July 22, 2026 #059
    WED, JUL 22 ·6 min read

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

    Daily AI news for vibe coders. July 22, 2026: Gemini 3.6 Flash ships cheaper, DeepSeek API aliases retire July 24, Nadella jabs at Fable 5, plus one build to ship today.

    • agentic commerce
    • claude code
    • gemini
    • indie devs

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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