Liquid
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Liquid is Shopify's 20-year-old open-source template engine used to generate dynamic content, which was recently optimized via agentic autoresearch to achieve 53% faster parse+render and 61% fewer memory allocations across 93 commits.
Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations
Shopify's CEO used agentic autoresearch patterns to run ~120 semi-autonomous experiments on Liquid, achieving 53% faster parse+render and 61% fewer allocations—demonstrating how agents unlock high-ROI optimization work that's impractical for humans to tackle manually.
Meta's AI flop 🤖, Google Maps redesign 🗺️, Perplexity Agent API 🧑💻
Perplexity launches model-agnostic Agent API with real-time search and frontier model switching, while Meta delays Avocado foundation model to May after reasoning/coding underperformance.