Factory Droid 1.0 makes the agent write JavaScript to batch its own tool calls
Droid 1.0 turns programmatic tool calling on by default: the model writes a sandboxed Script that runs many tool calls in one request.
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goose 1.56 swaps Deno and V8 for Boa, a pure-Rust JavaScript engine, in code mode
goose's code mode now runs agent scripts on Boa with no file, shell or network access. The PR reports a smaller binary and fewer tokens in a small test.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedCheng Lou's Handwired compiles JavaScript into an exact neural net
Cheng Lou published Handwired, a toy that turns ordinary JavaScript into an exact neural net with no training. The repository is MIT.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildJSON Can Carry an Integer JavaScript Cannot Represent Exactly
A valid JSON integer may lose precision when parsed as a JavaScript Number. Decimal strings keep opaque IDs stable across runtimes.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedAn Abort Signal Can Carry the Reason Work Ended
AbortSignal.reason and throwIfAborted help distinguish cancellation from ordinary failure; combine caller cancellation with a timeout for bounded AI requests.
Wildness 1/5 · TamedWhen Two Tabs Run the Same Background Job
Two tabs can start the same sync at once. Web Locks lets them coordinate the work within one browser, with clear limits for retries and work beyond that browser.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedThe Stream With a Traffic Jam
When generated chunks arrive faster than downstream code can process them, queues grow. Backpressure gives the producer a signal to slow down, if that signal can reach it.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedThe Old Tab Blocking Your Browser Database Upgrade
An older tab can leave an IndexedDB schema upgrade waiting. Here is how versionchange and blocked coordinate the handoff, and how to give users a clear way forward.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedMake HTML Sinks Reject Ordinary Strings
Trusted Types and Content Security Policy can make the browser require a reviewed policy before dynamic HTML reaches an injection sink. Here is how to introduce that boundary.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedLog Out Open Tabs With BroadcastChannel
Use BroadcastChannel to update open tabs after logout. Keep session invalidation on the server and account for storage partitions and missed messages.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedA Word Boundary Is a Language Decision
Space-based splitting can put transcript highlights around the wrong text. Intl.Segmenter offers locale-sensitive word boundaries and text offsets.
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