LLMs for Technical Editing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
LLMs: A technical editor's tool or replacement?
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Can Claude Opus 4.8 Be Used by Technical Writers to Evaluate Their Own Work?
A technical editor tests whether Anthropic's Opus 4.8 can act as a reliable critic of technical writing — flagging weaknesses, gaps, and quality issues before an editor sees the work.
Useful LLM Prompts for Editing Your Own Technical Writing
A practical set of LLM prompts technical writers can use to self-edit their work — catching structural, logical, and line-level issues before an editor sees the draft.
Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw
Drag a box, say what you want, and an AI agent draws it inside the box. Here's how we built it on tldraw's Agent starter kit, and what we learned.
Can Opus 4.8 Be Used to Edit Technical Articles?
A technical editor puts Anthropic's Opus 4.8 to work as an agentic editor on a code-heavy article to determine how effective (or necessary) it is.
Authenticating AI Agents: A New IETF Draft on Agent Identity and Authorization
A new IETF draft from authors at OpenAI, Okta, AWS, Ping, and Zscaler argues AI agents should be treated as workloads with short-lived cryptographic identities — not handed your long-lived API keys.
Every EU-Sovereign Alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft Office (2026)
A roundup of the European "sovereign" productivity suites trying to replace Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 — who builds them, what's inside, and whether you can actually use them yet.
Has Anyone Replaced Claude or GPT With a Local Model for Coding? What 400+ HN Comments Say
We read all 416 comments in the 906-point Ask HN thread on local coding models and counted who actually runs what. Qwen dominates, most say it's still not a frontier replacement, and every number here is backed by the comments.
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Is it feasible to self host an open source EU Sovereign productivity suite in 2026? [A Mijn Bureau Review]
I spent a few hours self-hosting Mijn Bureau, the Dutch government's open-source productivity suite, as an alternative to Google Workspace — here's what worked and what didn't.
How Much Should You Be Spending on Tokens Per Employee?
A sourced roundup of what real people and companies spend on AI tokens, from $0 (firms that banned AI coding) up to $1.3M/month for a single OpenAI employee, sorted low to high in USD per person per month.