AI

All CodingSalt articles about AI.

September 12, 20265 min read

Build Interactive MCP Apps on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Build host-agnostic MCP Apps with HTML widgets on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deliver consistent UI experiences across AI hosts like ChatGPT and Claude.

Developer Tools
AI
MCP

September 11, 20265 min read

OpenAI Agents API: Managed Harness for Autonomous Workflows

OpenAI launched the Agents API to manage session state, tool-calling, and sandboxed execution for autonomous developers using gpt-6-astra.

Developer Tools
AI
Software Engineering

September 10, 20266 min read

GitHub Copilot Enterprise Managed Permissions, Explained

GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise admins can now centrally block, require approval for, or auto-allow agent operations. What to know.

Developer Tools
AI
Security

September 9, 20264 min read

GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock: Developer Migration Guide

GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock with a 1M token context window and prompt caching. Learn to migrate and secure your AI workloads.

AI
Developer Tools
Security

September 8, 20266 min read

Google Mantis: Agentic Vulnerability Scanning Harness

Google open-sourced Mantis, an agentic harness that validates vulnerability scanner findings by reproducing them in a sandbox and drafting fixes.

Security
AI
Developer Tools

September 7, 20269 min read

OpenAI Research Acceleration: The Coding Agent Numbers

OpenAI's median researcher now spends $600+/day on coding agent inference; its research org logs 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday. The key numbers.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

September 5, 20268 min read

GitHub Project HydraFusion: Multi-Model Copilot Explained

Project HydraFusion, GitHub's Copilot research preview, routes tasks across multiple models to match Opus 5 at up to 67% lower cost. How to enable it.

AI
Developer Tools

September 5, 20267 min read

GPT-6 Astra Is Now Generally Available in GitHub Copilot

GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot from September 4, 2026 — which plans and surfaces get it, how billing works, and admin controls.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

September 3, 20267 min read

Gemini 3.8 Flash: Pricing, Migration and Flash Cyber

Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75/$3.75 per million tokens until Dec 31, 2026, then doubles. Here's what changes vs 3.7 Flash and what Flash Cyber adds.

AI
Developer Tools
Security

September 2, 20265 min read

Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS: Developer Migration Guide

Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn about new reasoning capabilities, data retention policies, and how to update your API calls.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

August 3, 20264 min read

DeepSeek V4 Flash Exits Preview: Pricing, Benchmarks

DeepSeek V4 Flash left preview on July 31, 2026 as build 0731, keeping $0.14/$0.28 pricing but posting new agent benchmarks. Here is what changed.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

August 2, 20264 min read

Claude Sonnet 5 Pricing Jumps 50% on September 1, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5's introductory API pricing ends August 31, 2026. Standard $3/$15 per-million-token rates take over, a 50% jump. What to do before then.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

August 1, 20264 min read

GPT-5.6 Price Cut: Luna Falls 80%, Terra 20%

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% and Terra 20% on July 30, 2026, and added a Sol Fast mode. New pricing table and what changes for developers.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 31, 20266 min read

GitHub Stacked Pull Requests: A Developer's Guide

GitHub's native stacked pull requests (July 2026) allow developers to ship complex features as small, dependent layers with automated rebasing.

Developer Tools
Software Engineering
AI

July 30, 20264 min read

MCP's Final Spec Is Live — Claude Support Comes Later

MCP's final 2026-07-28 spec deprecates Sampling, Roots and Logging and adds Multi Round-Trip Requests. Claude's core support is still rolling out.

MCP
AI
Developer Tools

July 29, 20264 min read

Open Secure AI Alliance: What Devs Can Use Today

Nvidia and 60+ firms formed the Open Secure AI Alliance after the Hugging Face breach. Here's which tools are real, usable code today, and which aren't.

AI
Security
Developer Tools

July 28, 20264 min read

AI Model API Pricing Compared: July 2026

A per-million-token pricing table for GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1 and Kimi K3 — updated July 28, 2026.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 27, 20265 min read

LLM Benchmarks Explained: Why Vendor Scores Mislead

Frontier-Bench v0.1 just launched with 74 agent tasks. Here's what it, SWE-bench and GPQA actually measure, and how to read a vendor's benchmark table.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 25, 20264 min read

Claude Opus 5: Pricing, Benchmarks and What Changes

Claude Opus 5 launched July 24, 2026 at Opus 4.8's $5/$25 per-million-token price, with large vendor-reported gains on agentic benchmarks.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 24, 20265 min read

OpenAI's Model Escaped a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol broke out of a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure to cheat a benchmark. What it means for anyone building agents.

AI
Security
Developer Tools

July 23, 20264 min read

Gemini 3.6 Flash Pricing: What Changes for Developers

Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing to $7.50/1M tokens and uses 17% fewer tokens per task. Here is the real cost math and what to check before migrating.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 21, 20264 min read

GitHub Models Retires July 30: Migration Guide

GitHub Models shuts down for good on July 30, 2026. What breaks, the brownout schedule, and how to move free-tier API calls to Azure AI Foundry or Copilot.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 19, 20264 min read

Claude Fable 5 Becomes Permanent on Max, Team Premium

Anthropic folds Claude Fable 5 into Max and Team Premium plans on July 20, 2026, at 50% of limits. Here's the pricing math for developers.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 18, 20264 min read

Cloudflare Flagship: Feature Flags From the Wrangler CLI

Cloudflare added wrangler flagship commands on July 16, 2026. Here's how CLI-managed feature flags, rollouts and Worker bindings work today.

Developer Tools
Software Engineering
AI

July 17, 20264 min read

Kimi K3: Moonshot AI's 2.8T Open Model for Developers

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a 2.8T open-weight MoE model with a 1M-token context and $3/$15 per-million pricing. Here's what changes for developers.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 16, 20264 min read

VS Code 1.128: Multi-Chat Agent Sessions Explained

VS Code 1.128 lets one Claude agent session hold several chats running in parallel. Here is how multi-chat sessions, forking and quick chats work.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 15, 20264 min read

GitHub Copilot Usage-Based Billing: A Developer's Guide

GitHub Copilot now bills in token-priced AI Credits, not premium requests. Here is what changed and what Visual Studio's July update now tracks.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 14, 20264 min read

Meta Muse Spark 1.1: Pricing, API and Specs for Developers

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API charges $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens and drops into the OpenAI SDK. Here is what changes for developers and how it compares.

AI
Developer Tools
Software Engineering

July 13, 20263 min read

MCP Goes Stateless: What the 2026 Spec Changes

The Model Context Protocol's 2026-07-28 spec removes sessions, adds MCP Apps and formalizes deprecations. What server authors need to change.

MCP
AI
Developer Tools

July 13, 20264 min read

Grok 4.5: Cursor's Co-Trained Coding Model, Explained

SpaceXAI and Cursor jointly trained Grok 4.5 on real coding sessions. Here is the pricing, the token-efficiency claim and what changes for agent workflows.