Got something you’ve been building in Rust? Sign up for a lightning-demo slot during the Open HDMI Cable session at the August Bay Area Rust meetup.
The meetup starts Wednesday, August 19 at 6pm PT.
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healthcare for ai agents, single-payer, straightforward costs, universal coverage. covers all llms and tool use, local provider network.
New AI models keep raising the bar. Matt shares why Netlify is building Agent Runners to take advantage of those advances by giving agents the context, tools, and orchestration they need to do more.
Zed New User Office Hours with @movraxrax.bsky.social is next Tuesday, August 11 at 12pm ET / 9am PT.
During this 30-minute Zoom session, Miguel will cover navigating Zed, using its built-in Git features, and working with the built-in agent. Bring your questions!
luma.com/zed-ox7n The Build with Netlify lightning talk schedule for RenderATL is locked. Eight sessions across August 12 and 13, including an AMA with Matt Biilmann and KP shipping AI-generated apps with Drop. Full schedule is on the cards. Come build with us in Atlanta!
sadly the one public instance of airtable i see nowadays is the one embedded in layoffs.fyi and it's probably going to have some big numbers for airtable layoffs in the private equity redudancy stage, on top of their numerous layoffs in the last few years 
Plan mode removes the guesswork.
When the change is too big for a quick fix:
• Your code stays untouched
• Plan it first, then review it
• Apply exactly as planned
No surprises, just clarity. 
launch a database: database.new
cumulative chart for aesthetics ↓ 
Supabase is now deploying >1m new Postgres databases every week & that doesn't include read replicas
ICYMI: the full thirteen-year history of Netlify Drop is up, from its 2013 launch as BitBalloon to the 2020 memo arguing for shutting it down. The stat that saved it: 60%+ of new signups still make their first deploy by dragging a folder. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee... the gist of this wave of ai writing: everyone uses llms. and we hate reading their output, don't like the software they make. pretty sure that they're causing skill loss for their users. however, i have found a special unique way to use them that makes me and my software and writing the exception.
llm-first restaurants, you can only order via mcp, also the robot eats the food not you
If you're interested in becoming a Zed student ambassador, apply here.
zed.dev/education/ze... And to Christopher Lamers (@lamersc.com), who runs the weekly raffle.
www.linkedin.com/in/lamersc A huge thank you to everyone else reproducing this week! ❤️
Carlos Urias: www.linkedin.com/in/hicarlosu...
Sam McClenaghan: www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mccle...
Kwaku O.: www.linkedin.com/in/kjowusu/
Enzo Amaral: www.linkedin.com/in/enzosamar...
Aidan Van Duyne: www.linkedin.com/in/aidanv The program runs six weeks. A small invited group of student ambassadors takes reported bugs and tries to reproduce them, so confirmed issues can be prioritized first. 101 issues reproduced in week one. Every attempt earns a raffle ticket, and a new prize is given each week.
Congrats to Paul Contreras, a Zed student ambassador, who won week one of our Summer Repro Program raffle! 🥳
www.linkedin.com/in/paul-cont... Our engineering and design team has been testing 20+ side-by-side comparisons across frontier and open models. All runs are public and open source. Benchmark for this demo here: github.com/CommandCode... We ran a test between the new Qwen3.8-Max, Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
3 open models. same prompt. one-shot with the /design command.
Reviewed gameplay, UX/UI and cost.
🔹 Qwen3.8-Max → 9/10 · $0.0480
🔹 Opus 5 → 9/10 · $0.253
🔹 GPT-5.6 Sol → 9/10 · $0.150 
Ran vp dev but meant your dev npm script?
The latest Vite+ now tells you when you ran the built-in command but probably meant your own npm script.
Your future debugging-you & your agents will thank you!
github.com/voidzero-dev... 
Qwen 3.8 Max is now live in Command Code Go.
… and it's going open weight!!
most importantly, next week open-weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B will be released!
🔹 2.4T params MoE flagship
🔹 Input: $2 Output: $6
🔹 Cache: $0.25 / M tokens
3.8 is 20% cheaper than 3.7 
Create custom slash commands and use them frequently.
🔹 Save a prompt as a markdown file
🔹 Define its scope per project or user level
🔹 Run it anytime with dynamic arguments
$ / [arguments] 
Students get a head start: verify your .edu email and you'll get 3,000 credits to start building. This is not just a students challenge, everyone is invited!
Thirty one days. Thirty one apps that teach. Let's build. 🚀
#NetlifyBackToSchool Love our Agent Runners? Use them while completing the challenge and you're in the running for Best Use of AR. Each week the strongest AR build wins 10,000 Netlify credits. Codex, Claude Code, Gemini. Let AI do the heavy lifting.