IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
917 articles
18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3 without retraining the base model and still doubled coding and cybersecurity benchmark scores. A technical lead's read on why post-training gains matter more than model size, and what it changes about build-vs-buy on agent models.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Stripe's reported $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter — up from a $1.3B valuation three months ago — validates the model-gateway architecture. A Technical Lead's take on when to buy a gateway, when to build one, and what this deal signals for API-routing infrastructure.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 went GA with sharp benchmark gains over its preview — and API prices up to 12x higher. A Technical Lead's read on what this means for anyone who built a cost model around DeepSeek's 'race to zero' pricing.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering rebase, plus essential Git workflow vocabulary — cherry-pick, stash, squash, force-push — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
Read more17 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
agentic coding
Qwen3.8-27B ships with reasoning effort defaulted to xhigh, and it shows: a trivial SVG request burns 22,000+ reasoning tokens and 21 minutes. A Technical Lead's guide to reasoning-effort as a hidden cost knob in agent pipelines.
Read more16 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Sunday review session covering the top 5 words from this week — verbose, orchestrate, backpressure, facilitate, advocate — with quick tests, idiom recap, and pronunciation drills.
Read more15 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering how to invite, accept, decline, and reschedule plans in natural English — count me in, take a raincheck, play it by ear — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
Read more15 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Agent Plugins 1.0 packages skills and MCP servers into one installable plugin that works across Copilot, Claude, Cursor, and more. A technical lead's take on the packaging format, governance model, and where the 1.0 spec still has rough edges.
Read more15 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
DoorDash's Flux platform runs 130,000 agent tasks a month with 25,000+ automated code reviews a week, all inside Firecracker microVM sandboxes. A technical lead's breakdown of the architecture pattern behind it.
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