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Apple has to choose between privacy and selling smart glasses that few want.

Cetus lost $223M to a shift overflow. Aftermath lost $1.14M to a negative fee. Bucket Protocol ships a decimal scaling bug today. All three passed audits. All three have the same root cause. I've spent the last month reading exploit post-mortems, sca

Early in my career, I thought polyrepos were the way. Microservices, each in their own repo, independently deployable - it felt clean and modern. Then I joined Meta and worked in their massive monorepo, and it changed how I think about code organizat

I spent over a decade writing software by hand. The last 3 years I've built almost everything with AI, to the point where it builds features based on user behavior and deploys them by itself. The code was never the problem. AI writes working code on

I grew up in a house in Rawalpindi where a book was not a small thing. We did not have money for many of them. The ones we had got read twice, three times, passed to a cousin, read again. A book was slow proof that something was worth keeping. So whe

I watched a customer demo their new RAG application last month. They had spent three months building it. The interface was beautiful. The LLM responses were eloquent and well-formatted. And almost every answer was subtly, confidently wrong. “The mode

New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.

Shared Claude chats were publicly accessible through Google Search.

AMD's MI400 launch release contains a single performance number, and it's a double-precision one.

Since 2017, Google has promised not to show ads based on users’ Gmail messages. While that policy isn’t changing today, Google may be laying the groundwork for personalized ads based on AI insights from users’ inboxes. Google’s support documents alre

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been on a highly publicized crusade lately to crush corporate bureaucracy. His goal? Flatten the org chart, remove the layers of middle management that slow things down, and let individual teams move faster. ​As it turns out

I used to juggle ESLint and Prettier every day. Two tools. Multiple config files. Plugin conflicts. Slow checks. And that constant feeling that something was always fighting something else. Then I found Biome . Biome is a single, Rust-powered tool th

I run a consumer product company by myself. Physical inventory, two storefronts, multiple marketplaces, subscription billing, bookkeeping, tax filings, government paperwork, content in two languages, and a codebase that ships to production most weeks

Debian 13 “Trixie” provides a clean, stable base for Java agent development. On a workstation, virtual machine, or cloud instance, you can compile Java projects, run local web servers, use the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) Dev UI, and deploy an

When we shipped Chron six months ago, the pitch was simple: every AI conversation should leave a timestamped, tamper-evident record. Developers installing AI coding tools had no answer to the question "what did the AI actually do?" Chron was that ans

Like a lot of you I hit the 5-hour cap most days. What actually annoyed me was realizing the weekly limit doesn't line up with that. Even capping out daily, I ended every week with quota unused. It expires overnight even after I paid for it. So I bui

A few months ago I got obsessed with a question: can you run a real LLM entirely inside a browser tab, with zero backend, zero GPU, and zero install? The answer is yes. Here's what I built. ghost is a single HTML file that downloads a quantized langu

After OpenAI’s latest model broke containment and went rogue, Congress acted fast, introducing a bipartisan bill that called for the creation of an AI kill switch , which lawmakers said would ensure the technology could not get the upper hand on huma

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.

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Metrics and logs were the easy part, and I wasn't ready for traces. It took me a while to get it, first getting a grasp on the vocabulary, then putting it all together and managing to see a tree.I won't blame myself too much, because a trace tree has

Introduction In most programming languages you learn early on to separate values from variables : a variable is a labelled box, and you drop a value inside it. Python quietly breaks that mental model. In Python, everything is an object - integers, st