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Open Design is here — a free Claude Design alternative I actually tried

Open-source, local-first, agent-native design. I wired it into Cursor, pointed it at Color Books AI with intentionally short prompts, and the mockups came back better than they had any right to.

Gemini 3.6 Flash is here — and 3.5 Pro is still waiting

Google shipped a sharper Flash workhorse, a faster Lite tier, and 3.5 Flash Cyber inside CodeMender. Refresh Gemini web today; update the mobile apps if the new models are missing — and stop holding your breath for 3.5 Pro just yet.

AWS is giving CEE developers free AI certification training — first 5,000 only

Three months of premium AWS Skill Builder AI courses across Central and Eastern Europe, 50% off the cert exam if you finish — and a Codecademy backup if you miss the cut.

Meta Muse Spark is here — this is how to block Meta using your images

Meta's agentic coding model undercuts Opus and GPT on price — and your public Instagram photos may still feed Meta AI unless you opt out. Two-minute privacy steps inside.

Grok 4.5 is the first fruit of the Cursor acquisition — and it's priced to win

SpaceXAI's $60B Cursor deal just produced a co-trained frontier model. Grok 4.5 is fast, cheap, and live in Cursor — but you don't have to use Grok to benefit.

GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's strongest model yet — and almost nobody can use it

Sol, Terra, and Luna bring Mythos-class agentic coding — but a US-government partner list means most vibe coders are still on the sidelines.

How I moved away from Replit and cut my stack to ~$20/month

Neon, Vercel, Clerk, and Cursor replaced Replit DB, hosting, and auth — without losing Stripe or Apify.

Opus 4.8 is live — and so is Vibe Coder's Life

Anthropic's benchmark gains, Composer 2.5, Google Flash models, and our first AI news post for vibe coders.