Respan: an Open Source Rust AI Gateway Built on Plugins

A 2026 arXiv paper scores research ideas on two axes, whether they make sense and whether anyone is positioned to propose them, and beats frontier LLMs on diversity.

A close read of Parrot's design: bot-free capture, a locally indexed knowledge base, per-call profiles, swappable models with visible costs, and the limits engineers should know before adopting it.

From FORTRAN's 1954 report to The Last One in 1981 to overnight coding agents, each tool took one task off the programmer's plate. None of them took the decisions. Here is the record, and what is different this time.