Misc

About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at…

Illustration generated specifically for this blog post. What building a blueprint-manifest auto-allow taught me — the wall that reviewed code keeps hitting, the provenance fix that clears it, and the measurement that took…

Agentic coding tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Cursor have become ubiquitous for everyday software development. As agentic systems mature, much of the work developers have them…

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Praveen explains why his team moved off GraphRAG in favor of a tree-structured memory for faster incremental updates and how they balance retrieval freshness, latency budgets, and access control at…

Author Feat AI If you’ve been running a vector database at any real scale, you’ve probably hit the moment where you open your cloud bill and just… stare at it. RAM…

Understanding ChatGPT Work 30th August 2026 OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful…

Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Antithesis –…

A new Hiring Lab metric measures how exposed each metro’s job composition is to generative AI. Key Points: The map of places highly exposed to AI-driven change mirrors the map…

There’s a lot of excitement right now about agent frameworks, orchestration patterns, and protocols. All of it matters, but almost none of it delivers value if you skip the data…