Bookmarks tagged “tech”
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levered beta is all you need
A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.
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Rolling the ladder up behind us
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.
Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision
Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Inria's "Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm" from the late 80s, now archived at Software Heritage, gives a peek into early computer vision's elegant solutions.
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
Why Not Just Do Simple C++ RAII in C?
Ever since I finished publishing the “defer” paper and successfully defended it on its first go-around (it now has tentative approval to go to a Technical Sp...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.
U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as “pig butchering." In January
The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time
After the Graz, Austria February 2025 WG14 Meeting, I am now confident in the final status of the defer TS, and it is now time.
Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era | Andreessen Horowitz
Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat AI agents as a new foundation for how software gets built.
Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity
Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, gra…
Manual Work is a Bug: A.B.A: always be automating
Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right, the team learns from eac
AI safety is not a model property
Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great
In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.
o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data
In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer
Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment
Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.
Why performance optimization is hard work
I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on m