Should QA Exist
Should engineering organizations have quality assurance (QA)? A lot of engineering leaders say they should not. I review the topic, and provide some suggestions for QA leaders, and some nuance on the problems with the way QA and engineering work together. 🌶️ ahead! QA should not exist In some engineering leadership circles, the answer is […]
Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people. For the better part of two decades, consumers lived in a golden age of tech. Memory got cheaper, storage increased in capacity […]
A Faster Alternative to Jq
This article is both an introduction to a tool I have been working on called jsongrep, as well as a technical explanation of the internal search engine it uses. I also discuss the benchmarking strategy used to compare the performance of jsongrep against other JSON path-like query tools and implementations. In this post I’ll first […]
The European AllSky7 fireball network
The network is based on the AllSky7 systems manufactured by Mike Hankey. Details about the systems were published in a paper at Meteoroids 2020 conference. Each system contains seven highly sensitive NetSurveillance NVT cameras with the SONY STARVIS IMX291 CMOS Sensor and a 4 mm f/1.0 lens. Five of them are horizonally oriented at an […]
Schedule tasks on the web
A scheduled task runs a prompt on a recurring cadence using Anthropic-managed infrastructure. Tasks keep working even when your computer is off.A few examples of recurring work you can automate: Reviewing open pull requests each morning Analyzing CI failures overnight and surfacing summaries Syncing documentation after PRs merge Running dependency audits every week Scheduled tasks […]
Agent-to-Agent Pair Programming
What if you could let Claude and Codex work together as pair programmers, talking to each other directly? One of them as the main worker and the other as a reviewer. It is amusing how the best agentic workflows often look a lot like human collaboration. Researchers at Cursor discovered this in their work on […]
From 0% to 36% on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3
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Judge blocks Pentagon effort to ’punish’ Anthropic with supply chain risk label
A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon’s effort to “punish” Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk and attempting to sever government ties with the AI company, ruling that those measures ran roughshod over its constitutional rights. “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may […]
Order Granting Preliminary Injunction – Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War [pdf]
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We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
A few weeks ago, Cloudflare published “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week.” One engineer and an AI model reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite. Cost about $1,100 in tokens. The implementation details didn’t interest me that much (I don’t work on frontend frameworks), but the methodology did. They took the […]