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Yeah that’s why they delegated code gen to deterministic tooling and saved the model for input fuzzing - let it fight the data instead of legacy syntax

For the article they just mocked it out for unit tests. But in reality you really can't - that’s a massive pain in the ass. Rewriting pure math is easy, but mocking CICS transactio…

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The whole point of Apple silicon isnt speed, it is capacity. You can grab a Mac Studio with 192 gb of unified memory and shove a model in there that would otherwise require buildin…

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It would be interesting to measure not just the accuracy, but how many people actually decided to double check the answer

Obviously without a proper RAG pipeline or web search it is just going to hallucinate with maximum confidence. It would be more interesting to see the results with top tier models …

The interesting taxonomy may be less about the source of the names and more about what properties they have

Somewhere in Cloudflare's DNS system, a random number generator briefly became the office matchmaker

A surprising amount of infrastructure design seems to be hiding patterns that humans will otherwise turn into unsupported features

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The web has its own problems, but at least bad HTML is often still visible enough to repair. A custom canvas-like desktop UI can be basically a black box to assistive tech

Yeah, blind seems unavoidable there, since it's literally about a blind client

The "invisible" point is interesting, although I'm not sure I'd read too much into it. Visual metaphors are so baked into English that avoiding all of them can start to feel a bit …

Sidewalks have to be usable by people who can't hear, people moving slowly, kids, older people etc. If a cyclist is on a sidewalk and can't safely pass without the pedestrian react…

The "read only" example is such a good illustration of how accessibility problems often aren't one big broken thing, but a bunch of tiny reasonable-seeming decisions stacked togeth…

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The most interesting number is missing here, and that is the token distribution by use case. If 60-70% was eaten up by PDFs, agents and automation instead of people actually sittin…

Maybe the real lesson is that public education has always had both impulses: emancipation and formation on one hand, conformity and state needs on the other

I think both can be true, depending on which layer of the system you're looking at

That may be why the rhetoric of education stays lofty while the day-to-day machinery often feels much more pragmatic