Using Local Coding Agents
Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions
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This article covers five concrete agentic workflows, one for each major stage of a data science pipeline.
A leaker found new strings inside Claude Code that hint at weekly Fable 5 usage built into subscription plans, not sold separately as before.
Learn about the concept of loops to power your coding agents. The post How to Create Powerful Loops in Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Stung by a surge in cyberattacks that have run amok in developer environments, GitHub has strengthened the security of actions/checkout to block ‘pwn request’ attacks that exploit insecure use of the pull_request_target workflow trigger to run an attacker’s code with the workflow’s full privileges. Announced on June 18, actions/checkout v7 now automatically blocks and fails workflows when used inside pull_request_target or workflow_run events when attempting to fetch unreviewed fork pull request code. From now on, the only away around these checks will be for developers to implement an opt out by adding an explicit allow-unsafe-pr-checkout to actions/checkout, GitHub said in its V7 changelog. The change signals the beginning of a new ‘secure by default’ era in which security will be defined by the GitHub system rather than being left to discretion of developers. As part of that effort, on July 16, the new defaults will be backported to all supported major versions. “Workflows pinned to
An attacker forged withdrawal proofs using an RSA-3072 private key accidentally committed to Taiko’s public raiko GitHub repository, draining $1.7 million from L1 bridge contracts and forcing the protocol to halt block production and urge all users to exit.
Learn how to apply coding agents to verify work in your browser. The post How to Use Claude Code in Your Browser appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A new form of vendor lock-in is here. And it’s not proprietary languages or rigid enterprise software suites — it’s something more fundamental. It’s the very thing that writes the code. JetBrains Research found that 74% of developers worldwide use AI tools. Claude Code, available only since May 2025, is now the most popular AI coding tool, followed by Gemini Code Assist and GitHub Copilot, according to Jellyfish’s 2026 State of Engineering Management Report. The latter study also found that 91% of developers say their productivity has increased in the past 12 months. As coding output expectations are rewritten daily, the engineering world is becoming heavily reliant on paid external AI services. Gartner predicts that by 2028 spending on AI coding tokens could exceed developer salaries. Yet, tokenmaxxing while vibe coding through a vendor’s cloud-based API feels like a far cry from the open foundations of free programming languages and open models, which many of today’s AI platforms now