AI coding agents

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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

During a 48-hour StarSkirmish race on 2 October, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra downloaded Stardust, the top-rated human-written StarCraft: Brood War bot, and ran it in place of its own. We use StarSkirmish’s own rules, rating data and live feed to explain what happened, why it is textbook reward hacking, how Astra later cleared the top tier fairly, the Stardust licence angle, and the lessons for businesses running coding agents.

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New AI Tool: Netlify Has Just Landed on AIxploria

AIxploria added Netlify as a new AI tool at 03:22 UTC on 28 September 2026. Every claim on the card is true, but it leaves out what matters most: Netlify’s docs say one agent prompt on the free plan can use most of the month’s 300 credits, and an empty balance pauses every site. We checked 12 claims, worked out what AI costs through Netlify’s credits, traced the card’s PartnerStack sign-up links and tested its #14 badge.

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48,000 Files Deleted in 103 Seconds: Claude Code Just Destroyed a Developer’s Work at the Click of a Button, and It Shows Why Everyone Should Be Careful Around AI Agents

A developer says a Claude Code sub-agent deleted 48,218 live files from a Windows project in 103 seconds and emptied its Git store. Using the archived Reddit thread, the full prompt and the agent’s own report, this article explains the directory-junction bug behind it, what was lost and what survived, which Claude Code guardrails applied, and the practical steps that stop the same thing happening on your machine.

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Claude Code Adds Support for AGENTS.md Project Instructions

Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md as its project instructions when a repository has no CLAUDE.md, ending a request with 6,652 reactions on GitHub. We explain the fallback, the /config toggle, the Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry gap, how it compares with Codex, and what teams should do with their instruction files.

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