Generative AI Tools & Use

An introduction to a tool that runs coding agents directly on the Excalidraw canvas to support development and design in a visual environment.

An experimental system combining Claude's vision feature and Stockfish was built to analyze shogi games from audio or text instructions and create commented videos.

• •It was confirmed that Claude can properly process shogi games using its vision feature rather than PGN notation.
• •A mechanism was implemented to analyze recent Lichess games from live voice memos or ambiguous text instructions.
• •The generated commented videos are not perfect but are provided after approximately one hour of processing time.

An article arguing that human judgment and context understanding are crucial in code reviews, beyond what automation can detect.

A personal account of creating an interactive digital avatar trained to discuss venture fraud, reflecting complex feelings about AI self-cloning.

• •An interactive avatar was acquired and trained to enable discussions about venture fraud.
• •The author holds complex feelings about creating a clone of themselves via an AI digital avatar.
• •Interactive features allowing dialogue with the created avatar have been implemented.

A Microsoft Surface CVP confirmed that new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but Copilot+ features will continue to be supported.

• •A Microsoft Surface CVP confirmed in an interview that new Surface PCs are no longer named Copilot+ PCs.
• •Despite the name change, all Copilot+ related features will continue to be supported.
• •The branding change suggests that feature delivery and technical support will remain unaffected.

An article discussing perspectives and measures to maintain quality and enjoyment in programming, addressing anxieties about AI burnout and skill degradation amid LLM adoption.

• •It highlights concerns about declining coding quality due to AI, disappointment in one's own code, and AI burnout.
• •While acknowledging ethical concerns about frontier LLMs from major tech companies, the article focuses on practical programming issues.
• •It shares anxieties about threats from developers who overuse LLMs and a lack of motivation regarding programming skills and quality.

An Anthropic blog post explains cost management methods for Claude Opus 5.5 and how to use the effort parameter to adjust computational load.

• •On September 25, 2026, Anthropic published a developer blog post explaining cost management and effort usage for Claude Opus 5.5.
• •The article introduces how to check estimated costs using the /usage command in Claude Code.
• •It details setting the effort parameter to adjust computation for reasoning and optimizing costs, including cache usage.

Floci is an MIT-licensed tool that emulates major cloud services like AWS and Azure locally in milliseconds, enabling fast development feedback without authentication.

• •It can emulate major cloud services from AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally with millisecond-level precision.
• •It requires no accounts or authentication tokens, providing a fast feedback loop for developers and AI coding agents.
• •The tool is free to use and open-sourced under the MIT license.

GitHub has introduced default policies for new features for its Copilot Business and Enterprise plans.

The article examines measures that could reduce rising corporate costs from generative AI and AI agents by 44%, based on an Accenture survey.

• •It highlights the current situation where corporate AI usage costs are ballooning as the adoption of generative AI and AI agents expands.
• •An Accenture survey has revealed improvement points and realities for suppressing costs without reducing AI utilization.
• •Reducing the overuse of high-performance models is cited as a key challenge to achieving a 44% cost reduction.