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Coding Is Dead. Programming Is on Steroids.
Bob never dug the trench himself. He was still the builder.
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From river to token
An interactive plate, with no prose in it at all — five figures tracing one prompt from the river and the grid to a single generated token. Type your own question and watch it tokenised, attended to, cached and sampled.
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Would you install it if I called it code?
A SKILL.md is instructions your agent follows with your permissions. Fourteen of the thirty-one that ship by default can rewrite your config or read every transcript you've written.
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Your stale docs are now a production incident
Humans smell a bad doc and route around it. Agents read it and ship it.
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We Watched Knowing
Kohli, Rohit, Rahane, Pujara, Ashwin, Jadeja — the side that made Test cricket exciting again, and made us believe before a ball was bowled.
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New to Code? Don't Skip the Boring Part
Advice for undergrads in the age of AI — learn one language properly before you lean on the machine.
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Attention Span Is All You Need
Coding got commoditized. The new skill is conducting agents like an OS schedules threads.
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Economies of Token
Why your $200 personal Claude plan feels faster than the enterprise seat your company pays for.
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The Importance of Good Design in Open Source Projects
A project's website is its handshake with the world.
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The Control Plane Mindset: A Proactive Approach to Software Development
Think like infrastructure, build like an engineer.
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This seems to be Google's time to play catching game to Microsoft
The tables have turned in the tech giant race.
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Engineering Leaders: Why You Need to Get Your Hands Dirty
The best engineering leaders never stop coding.
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A bit rusty, you are Rust
Reframing Rust's limitations as opportunities.
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Don't Break the Bank: Your Cloud Expenditure is a Window into the State of Engineering
What your cloud bill reveals about your engineering practices.
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Good in Algorithms doesn't necessarily make you a good developer.
Why algorithmic skills are just one piece of the puzzle.
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Don't code fancy when business is starting.
Keep it simple when you're just getting started.
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Encrypt Your Data Smartly in AWS
Choosing the right encryption strategy for your security requirements.
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Photon: The Swiss Army Knife for Deployments
How we built an internal tool that transformed our deployment workflow.