The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?
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Dispatches from O’Reilly: From capabilities to responsibilities
[Ed. note: This article was originally published on O’Reilly Media’s blog, Radar.] In my previous article, ”The Missing Layer in Agentic AI,” I argued that AI agents need a deterministic…
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Stop Overusing useState in React.
The Syncing Trap: How We End Up in useEffect Hell The biggest culprit behind state overconsumption is the desire to sync data. Let’s look at a realistic scenario: you are…
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so much has changed in 6 months’ time
Scheduling note: there will be no edition of The Pulse on Thursday as I’m in San Francisco for the next week and a half, visiting AI labs and startups, and…
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June 2026 FOMC Reaction: A Hawkish Hold
The FOMC kept its target federal funds rate unchanged today, but signaled higher rates may be on the horizon. Key points: The FOMC voted today to hold its target federal…
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Maintainability sensors for coding agents
There are multiple dimensions we usually want to achieve and monitor in our codebases: Functional correctness (works as intended), architectural fitness (is fast/secure/usable enough), and maintainability. I define maintainability here…
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The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it,…
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One Prompt vs Six: I Ran Two AI Builders in Parallel at a Hackathon | by TheProdSDE | Jul, 2026
The Setup: One Person, Two AI Builders, Running at the Same Time This was a solo, in-person hackathon — PromptWars, hosted by Google for Developers — so there was no…
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Targeting Your LLM Feature Rollout to Users Who Actually Benefit (Python Implementation)
Your LLM product experiment just came back positive, with a promising 8-percentage-point lift in task completion. You ship the feature and leadership celebrates. Three months later, the core metric has…
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The Pulse: Interesting AI coding stats from Cursor
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