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Short Stack #1Wed, Oct 14, 2026
01 Vibe coders

Gemini 4 Argon is out

Google shipped Gemini 4 Argon on Oct 13. It's Google's new frontier model for long, multi-step coding work like migrations. The API price starts at $2/M input and $10/M output tokens, and the input+output limit is 1M tokens. It's on the paid Gemini API tier, in AI Studio and Android Studio, and in Antigravity for AI Ultra subscribers.

⏱ 10-MIN TRY

Pick a messy file in a side project. Paste it into AI Studio with Argon and ask for a refactor plan. Then compare that plan with your usual model's.

source ↗ blog.google
02 Agent devs

ScaleDown's single-task models for agent loops

ScaleDown launched Constrained Decoding Models on Oct 13: Summarize, Compress, Extract and Classify. Each one only returns the answers its task allows, and each takes up to 1M input tokens. LangChain shipped `langchain-scaledown` middleware the same day. Extract and Summarize cost $0.04/M input tokens on OpenRouter. The speed and cost numbers come from the vendor and haven't been checked independently.

⏱ 10-MIN TRY

Run `pip install langchain-scaledown`. Add the tool-result compression middleware to one Deep Agent, then compare token counts before and after.

source ↗ aicoder.com
03 Designers

Canva's AI Connector, powered by MCP

Canva's AI Connector, which runs on its MCP server, lets ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot create, search and edit on-brand Canva designs using your brand kit. The results stay fully editable.

⏱ 10-MIN TRY

Connect Canva in Claude or ChatGPT settings, or type `@canva` in Gemini. Then ask for a 3-slide deck that uses your brand kit.

source ↗ canva.com
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