Product ships, model updates, and field notes on how AI is changing the way we build, inspect, and fix software.
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Critique adds LLM Gateway BYOK for review, Remedy, Builder, and chat model calls: same $8 harness, encrypted key storage, broader OpenAI-compatible model gateway, and LLM Gateway takes precedence when multiple BYOK keys are saved.
Repath KhanCritique’s June 2026 Coding Agent API update adds lifecycle fields, tags, metadata, intent classification, better SSE status, and cleaner follow-up behavior — plus a clearer view of how teams are wiring cloud coding agents into CI, support, and internal platforms.
Repath KhanIntroducing Critique Intake, an agentic bug intake workflow for turning vague user reports into triaged engineering packets, agent prompts, Review runs, and Change Passports.
CritiqueGLM-5.2 replaces GLM-5.1 and GLM-5V-Turbo in Critique’s catalog at the same 3-credit review floor. Z.ai benchmark table vs GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8, Design Arena Elo 1360, long-horizon FrontierSWE / PostTrainBench / SWE-Marathon charts, and how the inference API still exposes `z-ai/glm-5.1` routing to GLM-5.2 upstream.
CritiqueKimi K2.7 Code joins Critique’s Moonshot lane at 4.5 credits per PR review run (K2.6 stays at 4). Vendor-reported coding and agentic benchmarks vs GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8, MCP Atlas cross-reads against Gemini 3.5 Flash, MiniMax M3, and Qwen3.7 Max, and reasoning-efficiency gains over K2.6.
CritiqueMiniMax M3 coding performance on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.1, M3 vs Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, Qwen3.7 Plus vs Qwen3.6 Plus on terminal and UI benchmarks, and a 50% welcome credit window on M3 PR review runs through June 17, 2026. Critique Chat stays Ling and DeepSeek V4 Flash.
CritiqueEntry-level tech hiring collapsed while AI productivity soared. The five-to-seven year mentorship lag means the senior developer drought hits around 2029–2031 — and every company that ran the spreadsheet will be competing for a pool they collectively drained.
CritiqueCritique is launching a public community edition focused on self-hosted GitHub pull request review. This post explains what is opening first, what is staying out of scope, and why we are using a separate public repository.
CritiqueYou knew it wasn't ready. You merged anyway. Why AI velocity outpaced review, what actually happens to your PRs, and how Critique closes the gap with sandbox verification and merge policy.
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