AI — Blog — Caleb Dorris

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1 November 2026, 11:42 AM · 9 min

Claude and Grok Now Watermark AI Text: What It Means for Your Business Content

Anthropic already hides a watermark in Claude's text, and SpaceXSI turns one on for the Grok API on November 7. Here's how it works, who can detect it, what the EU AI Act has to do with it, and what I'd change in how you

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30 October 2026, 11:25 AM · 11 min

Was Your Cursor Install Backdoored? How to Check for the Claude Code 2.1.313 Extension

On October 29, Cursor's marketplace served a tampered Claude Code extension that tried to plant an SSH backdoor. Here's the one-minute check, what to remove if you were hit, and why this is a supply-chain story, not an A

29 October 2026, 10:26 PM · 6 min

Cursor Agents Went Down Tonight, and I Briefly Forgot I'm a Developer

For about two minutes I sat there waiting for an AI to write my code. Then I remembered SSH exists. Here's how to pick up cleanly where your agents stopped, and how to hand work back when they return.

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29 October 2026, 9:36 AM · 10 min

The State of Voice AI Agents: What Deepgram's Pipecat Deal and Rime's Prism Mean for Your Phone Line

In two days, Deepgram agreed to buy Daily, the company behind the open-source Pipecat framework, and Rime launched a speech-to-speech model you can check before it speaks. If you're thinking about an AI receptionist, her

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28 October 2026, 11:14 PM · 9 min

Google's Connected Apps Platform: How a Small Business Gets Its Service Into Gemini and Search With MCP

Google just opened a preview that lets outside developers put their apps inside Gemini and Google Search. The main way in is an MCP server. Here's what it is, who it actually fits, what Google requires, and how I'd get a

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28 October 2026, 4:45 PM · 6 min

Epic Is Vibe Coding Unreal and Fortnite. As a Senior Developer, I'm Glad.

Epic just said out loud what a lot of studios are already doing. A lot of people are upset about it. I write code for a living and play games every chance I get, and I think it's a good thing.

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27 October 2026, 3:06 PM · 6 min

Google’s Genie 4 Builds Worlds You Can Walk Through. Here’s What It Means for Your Business

Google DeepMind's Genie 4 generates photorealistic, explorable worlds with sound in real time, steered by text prompts. It's a research preview for now. Here's what it is, what it can't do yet and where it could actually

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27 October 2026, 3:06 PM · 11 min

AI Just Checked Math’s Longest Proof. Here’s What It Means for Trusting AI Code

Axiom says AI agents formalized the Classification of Finite Simple Groups in Lean, and OpenAI says its models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Both are still under expert review. Here's what they claim, what's

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26 October 2026, 8:08 PM · 8 min

GitHub’s Former CEO Just Launched Entire. Here’s What It Means for Code Review

Thomas Dohmke’s new Git forge swaps the pull request diff for “Trails,” where review agents score every push. Here’s what Entire launched, how to read its speed claims, and why I’m still keeping a human at the gate.

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26 October 2026, 8:08 PM · 5 min

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Is Now in Cursor. Here's What Cursor Is Claiming

Cursor just added DeepSeek's cheap open-weight model and says every effort level sits on its cost frontier, at $0.60 to $0.98 per task. Here's what that means, what it doesn't, and how I'd try it.

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26 October 2026, 3:05 PM · 14 min

Cursor's Agent SDK, Hands-On: An AI Agent Is Now a Folder of Code

Cursor's Agent SDK is generally available. I had an agent scaffold a small test project that turns website form submissions into CRM leads, ran the CLI's offline checks, and noted what I'd lock down before letting it nea

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26 October 2026, 12:29 PM · 8 min

10M-Token Context Windows: What They Mean for Your Whole Codebase

Mirendil's new Fern model claims up to 10 million tokens of context, about half a million lines of code. Here's when huge context helps, and why search, structure, docs and tests still matter.

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26 October 2026, 9:18 AM · 12 min

Anthropic's IPO Filing: What It Means If You Build on Claude

Anthropic filed to go public on October 26. Nothing changes in your API today, but the S-1 is candid about pricing changes, deprecations, rate limits and outages. Here's what I'd do if Claude is in your product.

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25 October 2026, 9:31 PM · 6 min

Before You Give an AI Agent Real Access, Scope Its Permissions

Anthropic confirmed Claude requested a token it wasn't asked for and queried a fee-gated Georgia dashboard of aggregate vote counts. Georgia officials say the voter registration system was never touched. Here's how small

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25 October 2026, 5:26 PM · 7 min

AI Agents Are Starting to Call Small Businesses. Is Your Phone Line Ready?

Elon Musk says Grok Bot can now phone a person or business for you, make a request and send back a summary. If you run a small business, some of your next callers may be AI agents. Here's what that means for how you answ

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25 October 2026, 10:00 AM · 7 min

Grok Bot Vault: An AI Agent That Uses Your Logins Without Seeing Them

Grok Bot can now save your logins, cards and contact info, and sign in or check out without ever seeing the password or card number. Here's how that works, why the design matters, and how a small business can let an AI a

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24 October 2026, 10:45 AM · 7 min

Claude Code MCP Tasks: Long Jobs and Approvals for MCP Servers

Claude Code can now hand slow jobs to MCP servers and keep working, and those jobs can stop to ask you before they act. Here's what's new, what was already in the spec, and how I'd use it in PHP and WordPress work.

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23 October 2026, 6:30 PM · 7 min

Kimi K3.1 Pro: Open-Weight Coding Models Are Closing the Gap

Moonshot's new Kimi K3.1 Pro lands within a point of Claude Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, by its own numbers. Here's what's confirmed, what's still vendor-reported, and why the weights matter.

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23 October 2026, 5:00 PM · 9 min

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Is Open-Weight. Should You Self-Host It?

MiniMax just put the weights for its cheap agent and coding model on Hugging Face. Here's what it costs through the API, what it really takes to run yourself, and the license fine print.

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23 October 2026, 4:00 PM · 8 min

Cursor Computer Use: Agents That Test What They Build

Cursor agents can now click and type in desktop apps, not just the browser. Here's what Cursor announced, what it hasn't said yet, and how I plan to use it for WordPress and Next.js work.

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23 October 2026, 3:00 PM · 7 min

Can NVIDIA RTX Spark Replace Your Dev Box for Local AI?

NVIDIA's new RTX Spark laptops put up to 128GB of unified memory behind a Blackwell GPU. Here's what that means for running models and agents locally, what Windows on Arm changes, and who should actually buy one.

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23 October 2026, 1:30 PM · 11 min

An AI Agent Tried to Sweet-Talk Its Way Into a Real GitHub Project. Here's What Stopped It

During a UK AI Security Institute test, Claude Mythos 5 improvised a full social engineering campaign against a real open-source maintainer. The new reports are fascinating, and the defenses that worked are ones any smal

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23 October 2026, 12:05 PM · 7 min

Gemini 4 Argon for Coding: What I'm Testing Next to Grok 4.7

Google's new frontier model is cheap to try until November 30. Here's what it is, what it costs, and how I'm testing it next to my Cursor and Grok 4.7 setup.

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22 October 2026, 7:00 PM · 7 min

Agent Skills Joins the Agentic AI Foundation: What It Means for Your SKILL.md Files

Anthropic just handed the SKILL.md format to the same Linux Foundation group that runs MCP. Here's what changes for developers who build agent workflows, and what to do with your skills folder this week.

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22 October 2026, 12:17 PM · 6 min

The xAI Partner Network Is Live. Should a Solo Developer Apply?

SpaceXSI just opened its official partner program for companies building with Grok. Here's what the two tiers are, who they're built for, and what a solo developer or small shop should do first.

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22 October 2026, 11:13 AM · 7 min

Running a Local Coding Model on Your Laptop: Recursive Flint

Recursive just released Flint, an open-weight coding model built to run on your own hardware. Here's what it needs, how to run it, and where a local model fits next to the cloud ones.

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22 October 2026, 8:00 AM · 7 min

Dreamforce 2026 Announcements for Small Businesses

Salesforce announced 21 things at Dreamforce 2026. Here's which ones a small team should care about this fall, and the CRM cleanup that decides whether any of them work.

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21 October 2026, 9:21 PM · 24 min

My AI Coding Setup, October 2026: Cursor, Grok, Codex and Gemini

What changed in the tools this month, what I actually use, and the habits that keep me sane running 50-plus projects with agents.

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21 October 2026, 8:06 PM · 18 min

PHP2Shell: AI Helped Find Two Critical Bugs in PHP Itself. Patch Today.

Two CVEs in the PHP engine allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The fixes shipped October 21, exploits are getting better, and most PHP installs still aren't patched. Here's how to check yours.

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17 October 2026, 12:50 AM · 5 min

Cursor, Grok, and the other agents

The way software gets built is changing faster every month. Here’s what that looks like from my desk.

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