IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
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AI coding tools
Pragmatic Engineer surveyed 27 companies on AI coding tool spend. Budgets jumped, PR counts jumped further — but when engineers were asked if software actually shipped faster, the answers split. Here is what to measure instead of PR count.
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ai-tools
GitHub's August 28 Visual Studio update adds Low/Medium/High thinking-effort controls per model, plus a model management view with context window and cost info. A Tech Lead's take on why per-call effort tuning matters more than picking 'the best model' — and how it compares to the reasoning-effort trap we already learned the hard way with open models.
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