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The Pragmatic Engineer

What Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite teaches engineering teams

The Pragmatic Engineer examines where AI accelerated the rewrite and which hard engineering problems remained.

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Ben Howdle

Contract-driven development

Ben Howdle proposes defining observable software behaviour before implementation so humans and coding agents share a target.

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Aha! Engineering

Staying familiar with code written by an LLM

Aha’s engineers describe review and learning habits that prevent teams from losing understanding of their own systems.

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Theocharis

LLM critics are right; I use LLMs anyway

A developer weighs reliability, environmental cost, deskilling, and the practical value of careful use.

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Claude

Inside an AI-assisted code migration

Anthropic explains where agents helped with a large migration, where they failed, and which review practices kept the work on track.

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Freestyle

Designing APIs for agents

Freestyle argues that agent-facing APIs need discoverability, bounded operations, useful errors, and safe retries.

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Performance.dev

Measuring ChatGPT’s front-end performance

A detailed teardown uses browser traces to explain how loading, rendering, and interaction costs appear in a large web app.

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GitHub

Automating cross-repository documentation

GitHub shares a workflow that updates documentation across repositories while retaining explicit human review gates.

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Turso

Turso is building a modern PostgreSQL implementation in Rust

The team explains its compatibility goals, architectural choices, and why a clean implementation is worth attempting.

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Design Arena

How OpenAI’s Sol learned better design judgment

Design Arena examines the training and evaluation work behind a coding model that can make more coherent interface decisions.

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PlayCode

The real price of frontier models

A hands-on comparison shows how token prices, retries, latency, and tool calls change the cost of production AI work.

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TechTalks

A primer on self-improving agents

This technical overview separates realistic feedback loops from the stronger claims often made about recursive improvement.

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