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Coding Agent token usage: 235-token default prompt

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Coding Agent token usage: 235-token default prompt, allowing ~12k tokens before user input. Measured default system prompts across 30 open coding harnesses range from 235 tokens (goose) to 11,974 tokens (Gemini CLI).

Key points

  • Default system prompt size varies from 235 tokens (goose) to 11,974 tokens (Gemini CLI) across 30 open coding harnesses.

  • Coding agent can spend ~12k tokens before the user types a word.

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Binance loses $5.7 billion in biggest crypto hack

Binance loses $5.7 billion in biggest crypto hack. It is reported as the largest crypto hack to date.

Key points

  • Loss: $5.7 billion

  • Record: largest crypto hack to date

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EQUS X personal assistant beta launch with user-owned data

EQUS X personal assistant entered beta; data stays with user and can be shared or withdrawn. The assistant learns how you think, negotiate and solve problems. Sandy Carter says reputation for agents is a hard problem and they have patents on it.

Key points

  • Data stays yours; you pick who it shares with and can pull it back out.

  • Patents filed around agent reputation; reputation is described as one of the hardest problems in the stack.

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Canva Brush design editing model announced

Canva Brush is a vision-language model for design editing that reads how elements fit together. It is Canva’s own model for editing designs.

Key points

  • Brush: Canva’s vision-language model for design editing

  • Reads how the elements fit together

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