The Manual

A short guide to what's in Builder Daily, how to navigate it, and the editorial rules behind every story.

What this site is

Builder Daily is a small daily-digest experiment focused on AI news that's actually useful to builders — Claude Code users, agent developers, and people deploying LLMs in production. It ships in 5 languages (English, 繁體中文, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어), updates roughly once per day, and is read on phones more than laptops.

Every story ends with a Practitioner Note — a 2-3 sentence statement of what the author would actually do in response to the news. If you only read the practitioner note, you've gotten 80% of the value.

The six sections

Papers 8

Hand-picked arXiv papers (cs.AI / cs.LG) with reproducibility-first ranking. Every entry ends with a practitioner note describing what builders should actually do.

DGX 5

DGX Spark / GB10 deployment notes — TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, llama.cpp, NVFP4 quantization, and the kernel-level fixes that determine real performance on consumer Blackwell.

Physical AI 0

Robotics, vision-language-action models, humanoid foundation models, and the build-vs-buy economics of consumer-priced manipulators.

Agents 5

Subagent recipes for Claude Code — the small, single-purpose agents that compose into a daily-publishing pipeline. Each one ships an install command and a sample run.

Benchmarks 5

Frontier-model head-to-head comparisons on practitioner tasks: code edits, tool selection, JSON extraction, long-context recall. Same prompt, same input, structured verdicts.

Archive 26

Every digest, dated. Browse by date or click a tag from any story to filter the full archive.

Editorial rules

Sources required. Every story has at least one verifiable source URL. No anonymous quotes. No unsourced claims.

Practitioner notes are first-person. They describe what I would do, not what "you" should do. If a note doesn't pass the "would I actually do this?" test, the story is rewritten or dropped.

No hype. If a release is a marketing post with no shipping artifact, it doesn't get covered. Working code, public benchmarks, or measurable customer adoption is the bar.

Bilingual parity. English and 繁體中文 versions are paired and ship together. The other 3 languages mirror EN with localized titles.

One digest per day. No mid-day "breaking news" updates. If something breaks at 3 PM, it goes in tomorrow's digest with proper context.

How to navigate

Three ways to find what you need:

Top sub-header bar. Always-visible link to all 6 sections. The current section is highlighted with an underline.

Tags. Click any tag on a story (like #mcp or #nvfp4) to see every story with that tag, across the whole archive.

Cross-section block. Each section page ends with a "Browse other sections" block — the fastest way to switch context without scrolling back to the top.

What's not on the site

No login. No paywall. No newsletter pop-up. No comments (yet). No tracking beyond first-party Vercel Web Analytics. No third-party JavaScript except the analytics scripts. Reading is the only thing this site asks you to do.

Support

If a story saved you an hour, the yellow ☕ button in the header (or the floating one in the corner) goes to a Buy Me a Coffee tip jar. That's the only revenue model. There are no plans for advertising or paid tiers.