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DAY 01April 26, 2026 APR 26 · 20262 SUMMARIES
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GitHub Copilot Limits Tighten as Agents Spike Compute Costs

GitHub pauses individual Copilot signups, adds token limits per session/week, restricts top models to $39/mo Pro+, due to agentic workflows burning 10x more tokens than six months ago.

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Client-Side LiteParse: PDF Text Extraction in Browser

Port LiteParse to browser with PDF.js and Tesseract.js for spatial text parsing from PDFs, enabling RAG visual citations; built via Claude Code in 59 minutes using red/green TDD and small commits.

DAY 02April 20, 2026 APR 20 · 20261 SUMMARIES
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Agentic Prompt Perfectly Adds Beats to Newsletter Tool

Clone a reference repo to /tmp, mimic existing Atom feed logic for beats with descriptions, and test via python -m http.server plus uvx rodney --help to validate changes—yielding exact SQL UNION and beat type mappings.

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DAY 03April 18, 2026 APR 18 · 20261 SUMMARIES
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Short Prompt Adds Beats to Newsletter via Agent Cloning

Instruct coding agents to clone reference repos into /tmp, imitate existing Atom feed logic in specific files, and test via local server + uvx rodney browser automation—delivering exact SQL UNION for annotated beats in one shot.

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