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🤖AI’s Impact on Software Development
🦾Plus: ChatGPT shopping 🛍️, Amazon's internet satellites 🛰️
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧠Top 20 Open-Source LLMs to Use in 2025
🤖Tiny Agents: a MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code
⚙️Opensource Infra to Power Unified MCP Servers
👨‍💻The One-Person Framework in practice
🏆 Alibaba challenges OpenAI and DeepSeek?
🤖 Duolingo replacing humans with AI?
🦾 Hugging Face Releases 3D-Printed Robotic Arm Starting at $100
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Create specialized legal assistants with Grok
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Anthropic analyzed 500,000 coding-related interactions across Claude.ai (the “default” Claude mode) & Claude Code (its new specialist coding “agent” ). The study focuses on automation vs. augmentation, AI usage by developer demographics, and types of coding tasks and languages.
Key Patterns Found in the Report:
Automation vs. Augmentation: Claude Code was more focused on automation than Claude (79% vs. 49%), indicating that AI is increasingly taking over coding tasks with minimal human input.
Coders commonly use AI to build user-facing apps: While Python (14%) and SQL (6%) are used for backend and data-focused tasks.
The rise of "vibe coding": Developers increasingly just describe what they want in plain English and let the AI figure out how to build it.
As AI continues to evolve, open-source large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly powerful, democratizing access to state-of-the-art AI capabilities. In 2025, several key models stand out in the open-source ecosystem, offering unique strengths for various applications.
The Hugging Face team has released Tiny Agents, showing how to build an MCP-powered agent in just 50 lines of code. The implementation demonstrates that once you have an MCP client connected to tools, creating a functional agent requires only a simple while loop to manage the interaction flow. You can try it immediately with a simple npx @huggingface/mcp-client command to experience a working agent that connects to file system and browser tools.
Opensource Infra to Power Unified MCP Servers 🧰 ⚙️
ACI.dev is the open-source infrastructure layer for AI-agent tool-use. It connects your AI agents to 600+ tools through a single, unified infrastructure layer. This platform handles all the complex authentication tasks, providing multi-tenant auth, granular permissions, and dynamic tool discovery—all while giving you flexibility to access tools via direct function calls or through a unified Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
PlanGo had one developer until 2025. This was made possible through Rails, which allowed the developer to be fast and efficient. The company's apps combined have over 100,000 yearly downloads, all built and maintained by one Rails developer. This post discusses how PlanGo was developed, the lessons learned over 14 years of building as a solo technical founder, and PlanGo's future plans.
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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Magnitude (GitHub Repo)
Magnitude is an end-to-end testing framework powered by visual AI agents that can see interfaces and adapt to any changes in them.
MegaParse (GitHub Repo)
A document parser that converts PDFs, Word docs, PPTs, and other formats into formats optimized for LLMs. It preserves document structure, including tables, headers, footers, images, and TOC
AI News:
OpenAI just released new shopping capabilities within ChatGPT’s Search feature, bringing new AI-driven product recommendations, a new visual interface for comparing items, and more. The update offers customized product suggestions based on natural language prompts with images, pricing comparisons, and aggregated review insights.
Amazon launched its first batch of 27 Kuiper internet satellites into space on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida shortly after 7 PM ET yesterday. The Federal Communications Commission expects Amazon to launch half of its total constellation up in the air by July 2026.
Chinese e-commerce and tech giant, Alibaba, has released a third-generation family of eight (open-source) AI reasoning models—named Qwen3—which it says matches, if not exceeds, the capabilities of some of the top models around, including DeepSeek’s R1 and OpenAI’s o1. All Qwen3 models have hybrid reasoning, so users can toggle between “thinking” and “non-thinking”, which is quicker, for everyday tasks.
Gamified language-learning platform, Duolingo, is planning to become “AI-first” by not hiring contractors who do the “work that AI can handle,” and prioritizing future job candidates who have experience using AI.
Hugging Face just launched the SO-101, a $100 programmable robotic arm you can 3D-print at home. Built with partners like The Robot Studio and WowRobo, it’s faster to assemble than its predecessor and has better motors and AI training. Plus, after acquiring Pollen Robotics, they’ll soon sell Reachy 2, a humanoid bot led by an ex-Tesla engineer.
Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building.
AI Tutorial
🧑‍⚖️ Create specialized legal assistants with Grok
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Grok's new Workspaces feature to create dedicated AI assistants for specific tasks, like reviewing contracts and legal documents, with document upload capabilities.
Step-by-step:
Visit Grok and click "New Workspace" in the sidebar to create a fresh workspace for legal document review.
Set up detailed instructions by clicking the "Instruction" button, telling Grok exactly how to analyze your legal documents.
Upload your contracts and legal documents using the "Attach" button for Grok to reference throughout your conversations*
Analyze your documents using the "DeepSearch" option for internet research and the "Think" button for deeper document analysis.
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