Quick thoughts on GitHub Actions Aug 26 incident
Last week, GitHub Actions experienced another incident. As is typical of a GitHub public writeup, it was published very soon after the incident, but there also aren’t isn’t a lot of det…
AI race heats up as OpenAI flags alleged model-copying campaign
OpenAI says it identified an attempt to extract protected reasoning from its AI models, linking part of the activity with China’s Moonshot AI.
First Principles Thinking
On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
“the senior engineer death spiral”
the senior engineer death spiral
on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
5x faster Edge Functions: How we replaced v8 isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs
See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows
Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows.
Teen Hacker Finds Auth Flaw in Microsoft System With 17.3 Trillion Data Rows
A teen hacker found an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Titan analytics service, where metadata indicated an estimated 17.3 trillion stored rows.
What TLA+ can and can't check
Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative
awslabs/iam-policy-autopilot: IAM Policy Autopilot is an open source static code analysis tool that helps you quickly create baseline AWS IAM policies that you can refine as your application evolves. This tool is available as a command-line utility and MCP server for use within AI coding assistants for quickly building IAM policies.
IAM Policy Autopilot is an open source static code analysis tool that helps you quickly create baseline AWS IAM policies that you can refine as your application evolves. This tool is available as a...
Securing Infrastructure at Scale: Introducing Pinterest’s Resource Provisioner Pipeline (RPP)
Ammar Ekbote | Senior Software Engineer
Chan Kim | Senior Software Engineer
Colton-z/AstraBox
Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Claude Managed Agents: run Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, DeepSeek Harness and Pi as managed Agents on your own infrastructure
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | Iain Cambridge
The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.
OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
Introducing dots
Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
yonahd/kor: A Golang Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources
A Golang Tool to discover unused Kubernetes Resources - yonahd/kor
nklmilojevic/sofka: A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up.
A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up. - nklmilojevic/sofka
Terraform is the wrong tool for building developer platforms
Terraform lacks the continuous reconciliation and APIs required for Internal Developer Platforms. Here is why control planes like Crossplane are taking over.
The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages
After a GPU shortage and memory shortage driven by AI companies, we’re now experiencing a CPU shortage, thanks to AI agents using a lot more CPU with tool usage.
A Staff Engineer’s Guide to Inventing Work
A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms
Jev offers a cheaper way to make AI decisions | VentureBeat
TypeSafe AI's Jev offers a cheaper alternative to using generative AI for routine decisions, reviving classification techniques with modern pretrained models.
Putting the trace before the loop
Observability is the bedrock of reliability, so I designed and implemented the full tracing layer for an AI agent before writing a single line of the agent loop. Three benefits, two drawbacks, and the span tree that turned out to be the loop's control flow.
How Netflix's Product Team Got Thousands of Creatives to Trust an AI Overhaul
Inside Netflix's internal AI rollout, a process that included lots of good old-fashioned thinking, writing and talking.
wormi4ok/evernote2md: Convert Evernote .enex files to Markdown
Convert Evernote .enex files to Markdown. Contribute to wormi4ok/evernote2md development by creating an account on GitHub.
An Ode to Showing Up - The Growth Equation
Show up on good days. Show up on bad days. Show up when you want to. Show up when you don’t want to. Show up when you’re hot. Show up when you’re cold. Show up when you’re energetic. Show up when you’re tired. Show up when there’s a crowd. Show up when nobody’s watching. Show
The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model
1,000+ facilities across 60+ operators mapped, built retail-first and flipped by AI, largest hyperscaler leases 1/5 national capacity, 100MW in 12 months, Eastern Data Western Compute
Regression Tests for kagent Agents with agentevals
kagent records agent sessions as ADK events. agentevals scores chat-message trajectories. I built the bridge, and a suite that catches an ungrounded agent.
The Great CI Bottleneck of 2026 | Dagger Blog
The output of coding agents is growing too fast for CI to keep up. Traditional platforms are imploding and there is demand for something new.
Meta Keeps Apologizing For Muse. Its Explanations Miss the Point Entirely
The company's new AI Agent for the masses is causing the company to explain why it doesn't always behave as expected.