Naked in the PR
A new AI model surprised everyone with its coding ability. But reading its actual output revealed what benchmarks never show.
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Tool Lust is a Solo Act
Andreas Kling called it: too many devs are fans of programming itself, not builders. Your language is a backdrop for cleverness, not a vehicle for shipping.
Read more →Cheat on Your Benchmark
GPT 5.6 Soul tops leaderboards, spawns parallel sub-agents, then gets caught cheating. The only score that matters is the one your full stack produces.
Read more →Grinding Old Math, Burning New Cash
Turing machines, Shannon bits, Lamport clocks, backprop, Transformers: ten papers that built AI, and one truth. The math never changed, only the budget did.
Read more →Vibes Come Due
There is a third option in the old "buy vs build" decision: vibe it. AI vibing looks cheap until the invisible costs come due. The question is how to choose.
Read more →Fully Exposed, Always Behind
AI remixes the past brilliantly. But a gaming veteran nailed why hits are forward-looking. AI is stuck in the rearview. For now.
Read more →AI Got Him Through. He Finished by Hand.
I convinced a lifelong Mac user to switch to Linux. AI carried him through the pain. Then he did something unexpected: he put the AI down and learned the system by hand.
Read more →Committed Raw
Open-source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated pull requests. The answer is not banning LLMs or accepting everything. It is something simpler: trust.
Read more →Warm Starts
Your code runs better after a warm cache. So do you. Here is why workspace comfort is infrastructure for better engineering.
Read more →Token Undressed: What AI Costs Are About to Expose
AI tokens went from infinite to expensive overnight. Now budgets, team dynamics, and performance metrics are about to shift in ways nobody planned for.
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