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Quality degrades long before you hit compaction, compaction is the "Next gas station, 100 miles" sign but you're already in the middle of nowhere. You don't need to go down the rab…

I've had really good success lately with having Claude Code resolve conflicts, to the point that I don't see myself doing manual resolutions going forward. Set git.conflictStyle to…

Looks like agent orchestrators provided by the foundation model providers will become a big theme in 2026. By wrapping it in terms that are already used in software development tod…

80% of the value of TypeScript is that it will tell you when when you changed or added a parameter and forgot to update it everywhere, you doofus. The other 20% is that it keeps co…

I use Cursor in anger every day. The core idea behind Cursor is genuinely smart. But the execution is like the classic "unfinished horse" meme [0]. Microsoft provides the editor ba…

VSCode must have over 100 times the user base of Windsurf and Cursor combined. All Microsoft needs to do is implement a halfway decent version of the context management features th…

Windsurf and Cursor feel like temporary stopgaps, products of a narrow window in time before the landscape shifts again. Microsoft has clearly taken notice. They're already startin…

It wasn't easy, but the bus company managed to make their EV leak oil and need gear maintenance.

Add more humans and LLMs to correct for errors. If humans sometimes go crazy and try to randomly end the world at a rate of 0.1%, requiring two humans to turn two keys synchronousl…

All of AWS' big money makers are the meat-and-potatoes services around compute, storage, databases etc. where you could drop their offering and replace it with another in a straigh…

Exactly. You would have to be naive to build a company on top of this kind of API. LLMs are going to be become commodities, and this is OpenAI fighting against that fate as their v…

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

AWS is desperate to climb up the value stack. Compute and networking is a commodity (with fat margins at retail prices to be sure), and the second and third place providers are wil…

> The slow part of using awk is waiting for the disk to spin over the magnetic head. If we're talking about 6 TB of data: - You can upgrade to 8 TB of storage on a 16-inch MacBook …

The way the Golden Gate is incorporated across all answers seems almost like an obsessive compulsive disorder. If the association was negative, we might call it a phobia. It is int…

The equivalent for a human would be an reflexive response to a question, the kind you could immediately answer after being woken up at 3am in the morning. That type of answer has b…

There's telemetry, and then there's this https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-sh...