Digest · 2026-07-21

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Claude Code 2.1.216 Fixes Quadratic Slowdown in Long Sessions

Claude Code 2.1.216 fixes a bug where message normalization cost grew quadratically with turn count, causing multi-second stalls and slow resumes in long sessions.

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A Claude Code Team Fireside Chat, Full Transcript and Video

Simon Willison published video and an annotated transcript of a fireside chat with Anthropic's Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar covering Claude Code security, evals, and tool design.

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Nativ Puts a Local Chat UI and API Server on Every MLX Model on Your Mac

Nativ is a macOS desktop app from MLX-VLM developer Prince Canuma that wraps MLX with a chat interface and a localhost API server for running AI models locally on Apple Silicon.