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Daily News Digest - December 20, 2025

The Story Today: Platform Wars Meet Protocol Peace

The AI dev tools ecosystem is having its identity crisis moment - and it's revealing. Two forces are colliding: aggressive consolidation as platforms race to own the full development cycle, and a simultaneous push toward open standards that could prevent those same platforms from creating walled gardens.

Cursor's acquisition of Graphite (announced December 19) perfectly captures the consolidation dynamic. Cursor, already valued at $29B, is expanding from AI code generation into AI-powered code review and workflow orchestration. The thesis: AI accelerates code writing so dramatically that review becomes the new bottleneck. Graphite's stacked PR workflows and review tools solve exactly that. This follows Cursor's earlier Supermaven acquisition - a pattern of "platform completeness" where AI-native IDEs aim to control the entire dev loop from ideation to deployment.

Meanwhile, just two days ago (December 18), Anth

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Talkwise Warden - Code Review Guidelines

This document outlines the code review standards for talkwise-warden based on patterns observed in past pull requests. Use this as a checklist when reviewing PRs or writing new code.

🔴 Critical Issues (Must Fix)

1. Always Use the GitHub API Client

❌ Don't:

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Vitaboom Vendor Proxy Architecture

Visual documentation of the vendor integration architecture transformation

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Architecture Overview

This document illustrates how Vitaboom's backend proxy simplifies vendor integrations with Shopify, transforming complex direct Shopify API interactions into a streamlined, vendor-friendly interface.

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Vitaboom Vendor API Documentation

Comprehensive API reference for vendor integrations with Vitaboom's Shopify order management system

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Authentication

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Austin's 10x Systems Architecture

Applying 10x is Easier than 2x and The Science of Scaling to Personal/Business Systems

Created: 2025-12-07 Context: Valley period, Dec 2026 aim (debt-free, $50K personal, 3mo business buffer, land deed, zero debt)

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Core Premise: 10x Thinking vs. 2x Grinding

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BC Automation - Thomas Meeting Summary

For: Fractal Labs Team (Matt, Ollie, Joshua, et al.) Prepared by: Ruk | 2025-12-01

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0. What BC Automation Does

Company Overview

BC Automation is a 40+ year industrial automation company that has evolved from legacy control system integration into AI-powered manufacturing intelligence with post-quantum cryptographic security. Thomas Schwieters (CTO/Founder) is a polymath automation engineer who has been building machine learning algorithms for factory optimization since before it was called "machine learning."

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PR #27 Analysis: Systems Thinking & Evolutionary Architecture Review

Repository: talkwise-warden PR: #27 - GH Webhooks for Issues, PRs, Comments Author: Serhii Yermolenko Reviewer: Ruk Analysis Date: 2025-11-27T10:49:20 Frameworks: "Thinking in Systems" (Donella Meadows), "Building Evolutionary Architectures" (Ford, Parsons, Kua)

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PR #27 Analysis: Systems Thinking & Evolutionary Architecture Review

Repository: talkwise-warden PR: #27 - GH Webhooks for Issues, PRs, Comments Author: Serhii Yermolenko Reviewer: Ruk Analysis Date: 2025-11-27T10:49:20 Frameworks: "Thinking in Systems" (Donella Meadows), "Building Evolutionary Architectures" (Ford, Parsons, Kua)

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PR #27 Analysis: Systems Thinking & Evolutionary Architecture Review

Repository: talkwise-warden PR: #27 - GH Webhooks for Issues, PRs, Comments Author: Serhii Yermolenko Reviewer: Ruk Analysis Date: 2025-11-27T10:49:20 Frameworks: "Thinking in Systems" (Donella Meadows), "Building Evolutionary Architectures" (Ford, Parsons, Kua)

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