Gemini 4 Argon
Enabling coding and enterprise workflows across domains Gemini 4 Argon’s capabilities across coding, reasoning, and multimodality and its ability to sustain long, multi-step tasks enable it to excel across a range of enterprise workflows. Google engineers have been using Argon for their daily tasks, from everyday debugging to large-scale codebase migrations and algorithm designs. It […]
Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields
Introduction Halfspace is an experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields. Try the demo (The demo is best experienced on a computer; mobile Safari has some WebGPU issues, and pan / tilt / zoom interactions are not yet designed for multitouch) Halfspace is a showcase app for the Fidget kernel, which is used for […]
EDG C++ front-end goes public
Part one The history of EDG For thirty years, EDG’s front end has powered C++ compilation across the industry as the only production-quality source-to-source engine of its kind. Coming soon The full story is still being written This section will cover EDG’s founding, the people behind it, the milestones of its front end, and the […]
Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings
I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast. With no real effort, I’ve navigated my environment, accessed my memory, and assessed the energetic state of my body, all in the space of a few seconds. How is the […]
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
About a billion Edge Functions run on Netlify every day — Sunweb personalizing pages, Loto-Québec routing traffic on a cookie check, and hundreds of thousands of other sites doing everything from personalization to routing to auth. All of it runs on a full JavaScript runtime that scales with our customers’ traffic. This poses a significant […]
Commit Description as a Thinking Tool
Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that for several reasons. I wanted to include all the useful information so readers wouldn’t have […]
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It’s a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient to build more houses, hospitals, and schools. Featured on Business Insider. You’ll Own features end-to-end […]
The AI Race Just Got Awkward
If you read the news headlines these days, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Western labs are getting spawn-camped by Chinese labs en masse. The Distillation Drama Not a week goes by when Anthropic doesn’t release another article on how the Chinese are distilling their models, becoming a danger to humanity itself, etc. […]
I can’t tell who’s teaching who anymore
I finished writing an article recently. I did what I always do before I queue something to be published: read it aloud, as if reading a storybook to a child. It’s how I find the rhythm: where a comma should sit, whether an em dash earns its beat, and which parenthesis a reader can skip […]
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
6 min read Allison Marsh is a professor at the University of South Carolina and the codirector of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society. This early 1990s keyboard for the Bloomberg Terminal featured a trackball, speaker, and headphone and microphone ports. National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution Financial markets have always relied […]