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21 articles

  1. published today

    The Break-Even Moved

    Three days' noticeThe cache line took the worst of it+6 more

  2. published today

    Markdown Has No Compiler

    The file that only growsIt just has to be slightly behind the code+6 more

  3. published today

    Fleets Need a Grader

    The day the fleet shippedTwenty thousand dollars for a worse compiler+6 more

  4. 2 days ago

    The Number Nobody Checked

    Not even Paul Graham knowsThe paper trail ends in a PDF+5 more

  5. 7 days ago

    The Harness Tax

    The consultant who bills for reading your emailSame model, same tests, four times the bill+6 more

  6. 7 days ago

    A Billion Tokens for $6.36

    The receipt and the warningOne cut, one retraction, one warning+6 more

  7. 8 days ago

    Somebody Has to Run the Exploit

    A 9.8 for code that never existedThe machines actually got good+6 more

  8. 9 days ago

    Your Code Got Cheap. Your Signature Didn’t.

    The sign only robots can readEverybody patched it differently+6 more

  9. 10 days ago

    Same Score, 1/36th the Bill

    The receiptsThe body didn't change+6 more

  10. 12 days ago

    Nobody Reads the Spec

    The spec that couldn't build itselfTwo bets, opposite directions+6 more

  11. 12 days ago

    DeepSeek Shipped a Post-Train, Not a Model

    Nobody shipped a model todayThe cache line is the whole price war+6 more

  12. 13 days ago

    The Day AI Pricing Fell Off a Cliff

    A price cut three weeks after launch is a confessionNobody cuts 80% out of kindness+6 more

  13. 13 days ago

    Your Agents Aren’t Tired. You Are.

    The tiredness got a nameThree agents, then the cliff+4 more

  14. 14 days ago

    Coding Agents Hit Production. Production Hit Back.

    The control group defectedReview is where the speedup goes to die+6 more

  15. 16 days ago

    The Real Cost of a $500 Fine-Tune

    The GPU bill leaves out most of the projectThe scorer becomes product policy+3 more

  16. 16 days ago

    What It Actually Costs to Self-Host Kimi K3

    The short answer starts at $40,000 a monthK3 fits on 8 B300s or 16 B200s+5 more

  17. 17 days ago

    Agentic Engineering in 2026

    The vibe coding hangoverContext engineering ate prompt engineering+5 more

  18. Over 1y ago

    How we use the design thinking process

    Double diamond design thinkingPlanning and discovery methods+3 more

  19. Over 1y ago

    How to fail an IT project

    Defining project failureThe 5 fatal mistakes to avoid+2 more

  20. Over 1y ago

    Increase sales with customer-centric design

    Organization-centric versus user-centric designWeb design components that don't match+4 more

  21. Over 1y ago

    Automating healthcare websites

    Leveraging automation in the fight against COVID-19Why automate?+3 more