/Tools

No Forks Allowed: How User-Centric Design Saved Next Edit From Compromise

- Vinay Perneti Arun Chaganty tl;dr: Augment's "Next Edit" feature uses AI to predict code changes needed across a codebase when developers make edits. When initial testing revealed UX and model behavior issues, the team faced a choice: fork VS Code or redesign within its constraints. They chose the harder path of working within VS Code's API, refining their three-model approach to be less intrusive yet helpful. 

featured in #601


Meet @clerk/agent-toolkit

- Nikos Douvlis tl;dr: "Our new experimental package for using Clerk in your AI agent workflows. Manage users, orgs, and more with Vercel AI SDK + LangChain support. Try it now: npm install @clerk/agent-toolkit"

featured in #600


To Fork Or Not To Fork?

- Scott Dietzen tl;dr: Scott debates over IDE integration approaches, contrasting a plug-in strategy with competitors who fork VS Code. He argues that forking creates disadvantages: forcing IDE switches, losing support / ecosystem / updates, and causing compatibility issues. 

featured in #599


Why Accurate Vehicle Specs Matter More Than You Think

tl;dr: Vehicle specs power everything from insurance quotes to resale values, but inaccurate data can lead to costly mistakes. CarsXE delivers real-time, VIN-verified vehicle specifications, ensuring engineers build reliable, high-performing applications with trusted data at scale.

featured in #591


How I Learned To Code With My Voice

- Salma Alam-Naylor tl;dr: “But, I did what every good software engineer does when dealing with a difficult bug: I stripped everything down and pieced the tools and functionality back together, one by one. Next, I’ll detail the tools that worked for me, and I’ll follow with some important advice that I wish I’d found or that someone had given me when I was at the start of my journey.”

featured in #589


Start Selling To Enterprises With Just A Few Lines Of Code

tl;dr: WorkOS makes enterprise-grade authentication and user management effortless. With just a few lines of code, integrate powerful features like SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes—not months. Designed for B2B SaaS, WorkOS offers modular APIs, a first-in-class dev experience, and onboarding assistant to eliminate complexity for your engineering team. Best of all? User Management is free for up to 1 million MAUs and includes MFA, bot protection, and more.

featured in #586


Protect Against Bots, Fraud, And Abuse

tl;dr: Detect, verify, and block harmful behavior in real time. Radar protects your app against AI bots, account abuse, credential theft, and more.

featured in #582


How Square Auto-Generated A Go SDK Using Fern

- Jordan Bergero tl;dr: Square has 100s of API endpoints that developers want to call from a Go backend. By partnering with Fern, Square automatically generated a Go client library that's dependency-free, has auto-pagination for lengthy responses, and handles retry requests. 

featured in #579


Leadership Power Tools: SQL And Statistics

- Matt Blewitt tl;dr: “A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL & DuckDB, then some useful statistical tools: summary stats, distributions, confidence intervals and Bayesian reasoning.”

featured in #578


Introducing <Waitlist /> Mode - A Virtual Queue For Your App

tl;dr: Waitlist is a new sign-up mode and component that lets users register interest and join a waitlist for early access to your product. Manage user access and onboarding all within your Clerk Dashboard. Read our changelog announcement for more details.

featured in #575