IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
917 articles
11 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-ml
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering orchestrate, plus essential AI agent vocabulary — tool call, context window, guardrail, agent loop — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
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agentic coding
Thoughtworks ran a controlled experiment on TDD inside an AI agent loop: red-green cycles cost up to 8.5x more tokens than spec-first prompting, and blind quality judging preferred the non-TDD output. Here's what that means for how you should actually prompt coding agents.
Read more11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare's Kitesurf ditches Chromium entirely — Servo's layout engine, Firefox's CSS engine, and a Rust JS engine, running inside Workers V8 isolates. The real benchmarks: 3-7x less resource usage, but Chromium still wins on raw speed.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
aws
AWS EKS engineers published the real root cause of slow CUDA/PyTorch image pulls on Aug 10, 2026: it's serialization, not bandwidth. Two containerd fixes now shipping in EKS Auto Mode — chunked range-request downloads and concurrent layer unpacking.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering verbose, plus essential terminal vocabulary — pipe the output, tail the logs, background process, exit code — with pronunciation guide and real-world exercises.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Meta released Muse Glimmer on Aug 10, 2026 — an Apache 2.0, 30B agentic LLM that runs on a single consumer GPU with near-zero quality loss when quantized. Here's the real architecture, benchmarks, and when it beats calling an API.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
cloud
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 ships parallel autovacuum, in-core online REPACK, and in-core plan advice. Here's what a production-minded technical lead needs to know before touching the beta, with real SQL and config examples.
Read more10 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
GitHub shipped git-worktree isolation for Copilot, Claude, and Codex agent sessions in VS Code on Aug 7, 2026, plus peer-chat forking and /side parallel sessions. Here's what actually changes for teams running multiple AI agents against the same repo.
Read more09 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Sunday review session covering the top 5 words and 3 idioms from this week — refactor, hallucinate, facilitate, visibility, banter — with quick tests, bonus new idiom, and pronunciation drills.
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