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AI Can Code (But It Doesn’t Care About Quality)

Every engineer now has a code-producing machine in their hands, but volume rarely equates to quality. How do individual contributors and tech leads maintain standards when it’s suddenly much easier to create than it is to edit?

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Discourse MCP is here!

As soon as Anthropic open sourced their Model Context Protocol (MCP) proposal for interfacing with AI agents almost a year ago, we started getting excited about how good of a match it was for Discourse. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic’s open standard for connecting AI assistants to live

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Introducing AI Bot

Our Discourse AI modules are designed to make your community experience easier, simpler, faster and hopefully, more fun. Today, we’re excited to announce the “AI Bot” module, which uses the power of conversation to help you get any of your questions, suggestions, recommendations, or comments answered in seconds. All

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Looking Back with the Yearly Review Plugin

As we enter the holiday season we start to look back and reflect on all the things that we have or haven’t accomplished (RIP my diet resolutions) in the last year. At Discourse our Yearly Review plugin creates a topic on January 1st every year that shows the activity

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What Is Asynchronous Communication?

If you have ever said or heard someone say “Can you just send it to me through….” In that case, you have experienced the world of asynchronous communications. Asynchronous communication is any type of communication where one supplies or requests information, and the sender has no expectation of receiving an

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Skittish: A Playful, Audio-First Space for Virtual Events and Gatherings - Cool Community Tech

Sometimes community technology is so freaking cool, you can't help but share it! This time around, we're chatting with Andy Baio, creator of Skittish, a playful, audio-first virtual space for hosting events and gatherings online. Let's get into the conversation and learn more! Tell