Dispatches from O’Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
I keep seeing the same idea in conversations about agents: Detailed specs are old-world overhead now. Give the model a rough goal, let it explore, fix what comes back, move…
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Why real-time AI at scale is so hard
Real-time AI at scale is harder than it looks. Pipelines that hum along in development routinely hit problems in production. It’s always easy to blame the model for all your…
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React for Two Computers — overreacted
I’ve been trying to write this post at least a dozen times. I don’t mean this figuratively; at one point, I literally had a desktop folder with a dozen abandoned…
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GFN Thursday: GeForce NOW Supports Firefox
It’s a new way into the cloud. GeForce NOW welcomes Firefox support to the cloud, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming straight from the browser, starting…
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Building an AI-Powered Research Email Assistant with CrewAI
How I automated the entire research-to-email pipeline using multi-agent AI Imagine sending an email that says: “Please research the impact of 5G on smart cities and send me a concise report.” A…
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Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Command You Already Approved
This is Part 5 of our AI Coding Agent Horror Stories series, a look at real security incidents involving AI coding agents, and how Docker Sandboxes contain agent execution at…
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How I help you build better websites
I am no longer employed at Remix. Learn more at A review of my time at Remix. Have you read my personal mission statement? It’s on my homepage: Helping people…
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VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is…
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Markdown SVG upgrades
16th August 2026 I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May, but I’ve since added enough features to it that it’s worth talking about here again. It’s evolved into my…
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Consul + CyberArk WIM: External CA for the service mesh
Every service in a Consul service mesh gets a short-lived TLS certificate that proves its identity. By default, Consul runs its own certificate authority to issue those certificates. That is convenient, but…
