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2026 June

For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code.

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How vLLM Semantic Router turns vllm-sr/auto into a bounded micro-agent runtime for Confidence, Ratings, ReMoM, Fusion, Workflows, and benchmark-shaped collaboration.

Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.

At a Shift CTO Craft dinner in Toronto, senior engineering leaders debated AI ROI, code review bottlenecks, hiring, cognitive debt, and vendor lock-in.

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AI helping pharmaceutical researchers query decades of information buried in PDF reports

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AI-assisted coding is accelerating skill atrophy for developers who haven't built the foundations yet. Here's how to know which phase you're in — and what to do about it.

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

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Roger Oriol

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Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

2026 May

AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?

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A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

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Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading fu...

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Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.

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An MIT-licensed, stateless vector search engine built on SlateDB that runs anywhere with object storage and serves 100M vectors for roughly $350/mo.

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TL;DR. Claude would rather reinvent the wheel than pip install one.

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There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t

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Vercel Security Checkpoint

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ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way

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