Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
It’s rare to work with an unlimited token budget, but at OpenAI, that’s what all engineers, researchers, finance colleagues, and marketing folks do. Recently, I visited one of the world’s…
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How I Consolidated Duplicate Delivery Pipelines With Parameters and Build Tags
Two modules in a repository had near-identical Azure DevOps build and release definitions. A third would have required another pair. The delivery chain used five definitions: one change decider, two…
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Introducing Kody: Your Personal Software Factory
In just the last couple days I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the same category of problems: I expect many of you can relate to this pain. In…
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Google Research Introduces Retrieve-for-Train (R4T): An RL-Compiled Diffusion Retriever for 12× to 20× Faster Query Fan-Out
Search and recommendation systems increasingly need to return a set of results, not one best match. A query like ‘camping gear’ should return a tent, a sleeping bag, a stove,…
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The Goalposts Moved: Interpreting the Labor Market in a New Era of Constrained Labor Supply
Demographic change is taking hold of the US labor market. Key points: The US labor force has shrunk by around 700,000 workers so far in 2026. Absent a surprise fourth-quarter…
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Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub
I run marketing for GitHub in Japan and Korea, and events are the heartbeat of it: a recurring webinar series for enterprise developers, community meetups in Tokyo, invite-only executive sessions…
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billboard.js 4.1.0: Live resizing, configurable subchart, React subpath & CSP-safe worker
Glad to announce billboard.js v4.1.0! 🎉 This minor release is about giving back control over things that used to be fixed: how the chart behaves while its container is being…
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Treating Prompt Templates as Hyperparameters in Scikit-LLM GridSearchCV
In this article, you will learn how to treat prompt templates as tunable hyperparameters for a language model, using scikit-learn’s grid search to find the best-performing prompt for a zero-shot…
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Social Media Engagement: summer 2026
In order to let people know about new articles on martinfowler.com, I post announcements on social media. I’ve been doing this for a long time, starting on Twitter back in…
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Compliance for a new regulatory era
Enforcements such as NIS2 are no longer a future planning consideration. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity’s (ENISA) NIS360 report confirms that supervisory authorities are actively assessing cybersecurity maturity across…
