Week of February 8, 2026
Things I learned during the week ending February 8, 2026.
- Opus 4.6 launch.
- context compaction (beta) and 1M context window, enables longer agentic tasks without loosing context.
- they claim it has found 500 Zero-Day Flaws in open-source projects (yet to see the proofs though)
- agent teams, multiple agent coordinates with a leader agent. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
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On blockchain, UIPC (Universal IPC) and SIPC (Secure IPC) are frameworks that allows different network to talk to each other using a standard protocol. While UIPC acts as the universal courier, SIPC acts as the security guard. Together, they create “Internet of Blockchains”. Gemini
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Vortex a newer format is supported by duckdb promises to be faster for random access and has zero-copy metadata, with better compression. While the support across the board is limited but worth considering for LLM/RAG based uses over parquet.
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann manages to be both rigorous technical manual and something approaching a philosophical treatise on the nature of truth, consistency, and trust in distributed systems. [Claude][https://claude.ai/chat/0f58f2f6-bd56-41a1-a785-8267afa5a3d1]