A monthly newsletter covering April 2026 AI and Flutter developments. Three major model launches shipped: GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and DeepSeek V4. Despite record benchmark scores, developer trust in AI tools is declining due to real-world quality degradation and stricter usage limits. DeepSeek V4 is highlighted for its agent-optimized architecture and 1M context window at lower cost. Flutter news includes the Material/Cupertino code freeze moving those packages out of the SDK, and Dart/Flutter's AI strategy for 2026. Patrol MCP is introduced as a way for AI agents to write and run E2E tests on mobile apps. The author also promotes their Agentic Coding Toolkit for Flutter.
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