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Cursor Composer 2.5 vs Composer 2: what actually changed

Cursor Composer 2.5 runs on the same Kimi K2.5 base as Composer 2 but trains on 25x more synthetic tasks. The real delta, the pricing, the limits.

NATS JetStream vs Kafka: simpler ops, sub-millisecond latency

NATS JetStream gives Python microservices durable streams, exactly-once delivery, and sub-millisecond latency. One small binary, no Kafka sprawl.

Blender MCP: control Blender with Claude AI through natural language

Blender MCP wires Claude into Blender's Python API. Create geometry, apply materials, fetch assets, and generate meshes from natural-language prompts.

Claude Agent SDK: build custom AI agents without reinventing the orchestration layer

Build production AI agents with the Claude Agent SDK. Configure tools, hooks, MCP servers, and subagents to connect external services without code.

Claude Code for data analysis: process 500K rows without writing code

Analyze 541,000-row CSV files with Claude Code to generate Excel workbooks, charts, and parameterized reports from plain natural language prompts.

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Passkeys and WebAuthn: ship passwordless login with one evening of work

Passkeys with WebAuthn and @simplewebauthn/server: sign-up, conditional UI autofill, account recovery, and device-loss policies that survive prod.