Tokenmaxxing in Gas City, collaborative steering, and avoiding the reasoning trap.

Want to tokenmaxx without the effort? Talk to a chatbot whose training set stopped in 1931? Or pay a visit to Gas City, which Steve Yegge calls “a pivotal moment in the Mad Max school of agent orchestration”? It’s all in this month’s Radar Trends.

Of course, Mike Loukides is also tracking projects you’re more likely to include in your day-to-day work, from new models for voice, conversation timing, and privacy filtering to agent platforms, tools, and integrations, along with the latest vulnerabilities to watch out for—like Claude Code inadvertently leaking your credentials to public repos, websites that track you by “measuring subtle interactions with [your] solid-state drive,” and a Linux kernel vulnerability that was exploited within a day of its release. Even if you’re not running a Linux server yourself, that last one should give you pause: This month there’s even more proof that AI tools have made finding and exploiting vulnerabilities nearly effortless.

And if you’re looking to hone your skills, Drew Breunig shares “10 Lessons for Agentic Coding”; researchers from Penn State, Nanjing University, and elsewhere explore “the reasoning trap,” where increased reasoning also increases hallucinations about tool use; Luke Wroblewski introduces collaborative steering (context management for groups); and Mitchell Hashimoto explains why programming languages are now fungible.

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