Build and Run a Live AI News Debate Wall with ChatDev on Linux

Runbook · Multi-agent application build

ChatDev’s finished Live News Debate Wall turns live business headlines into an AI-parody debate—complete with policy, bureaucracy, Vogon poetry and Yoda.

Building a live AI news debate wall with ChatDev 2.0: from requirements prompt to a tested Linux service

In the first part of this series, I installed ChatDev 2.0 on Linux, connected its virtual software company to an OpenAI-compatible GLM endpoint, and proved that the complete agent graph could design, write, review, test and deliver a runnable program. This time, the factory gets an actual assignment.

DO NOT PANIC: Free Windows Stock Market Dashboard

DO NOT PANIC Portfolio Visualizer turns delayed market data into an animated, full-screen financial display.

Stock-market dashboards usually resemble spreadsheets that have acquired several extra panels and begun making demands. We wanted something different: a financial display that could live on a second monitor, office screen, television, or wall-mounted panel without looking like an accounting department had occupied the room.

The result is DO NOT PANIC Portfolio Visualizer 1.0, a free animated stock market dashboard for 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11. It combines delayed portfolio quotes, four customizable ticker tapes, floating charts, global market clocks, macro indicators, financial headlines, and rotating city or stock-exchange backgrounds. It is now available from the project’s official GitHub release and its itch.io download page.

Install ChatDev 2.0 on Linux: AI Agents That Build Real Software

Runbook · Multi-agent software factory

Building software with a team of AI agents: installing ChatDev 2.0 and passing a full-lifecycle smoke test

For a while now I've wanted to break out of the closed ecosystems I write code in every day — OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex, Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code. The reason is simple: the free, openly available models have been closing the gap with the $20-a-month subscription tiers so quickly that paying for a walled garden increasingly feels like a habit rather than a necessity. That instinct was sharpened by Bill Gurley's July 2026 Washington Post opinion piece — Gurley, president and founder of the P3 Institute and a former venture capitalist, argues that the flood of powerful models being given away for free is not a security threat but ordinary competition: the oldest strategy in software, cost leadership, driving price down toward the near-zero cost of copying a model. It is, in the essay's words, simply "what competition looks like." Convinced that the open side is where the momentum now lies, I went hunting for a serious free-model toolchain to build real software with — and ChatDev is the most promising thing I found.