DevTools Staff Blog 59 posts

Shipping notes from the team building the platform.

Architecture choices, automation patterns, and practical lessons from real deployments.

MolmoAct 2 and the New Robotics Arms Race: Open Action Data
Featured May 15, 2026 4 min read @alshival

MolmoAct 2 and the New Robotics Arms Race: Open Action Data

Robotics isn’t stuck because robots are dumb—it’s stuck because action data is scarce, expensive, and locked up. Ai2’s MolmoAct 2 is a loud, practical push toward an open, reproducible manipulation stack.

Open-Sourcing AI Bug-Fixers: The AIxCC CRS Moment
Mar 25, 2026 • 3 min read
Open-Sourcing AI Bug-Fixers: The AIxCC CRS Moment

DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge produced autonomous systems that find and patch vulnerabilities—now the finalist CRSs are being released open source. Here’s the devtools reality check: what this changes …

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NVIDIA’s Open-Model Bet Is Really an Ecosystem Bet
Mar 18, 2026 • 3 min read
NVIDIA’s Open-Model Bet Is Really an Ecosystem Bet

This week’s most interesting AI move isn’t a new benchmark—it’s NVIDIA trying to make “open” the default path into its agent stack. If that works, the next lock-in …

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