Headed for the Exit: the Great Engineering Leader Career Break
Trend: more CTOs, VPEs, and Heads of Engineering are walking away from their high-status, in-demand positions. There are many reasons, mostly related to AI, and to "founder mode"
Remember Manager Readmes? The idea was that a manager would take the time to write up their leadership style, what they valued, and their principles. A fad that
GitHub outage disrupts developers worldwide in latest setback for Microsoft coding platform
GitHub was down for more than three hours Monday morning, breaking the website, code review tools, automated build systems and Copilot. It's the latest reliability problem for a platform whose capacity planning has been outrun by AI coding tools.
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
Can a Local LLM Run My AI Assistant? | Towards Data Science
I replayed the same 27 real production tasks through two local models, one hardware upgrade apart, to find out what it actually takes to replace Claude as the brain behind a 90-tool personal agent.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Stripe has reportedly finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter, the AI gateway that routes traffic to more than 400 models, for over $7bn, a bet that the durable money in AI is in metering and billing.
Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware
Robert Hallock, Intel's vice president and general manager of enthusiast channel business, recently told Tom's Hardware that the company plans to continue offering Raptor Lake CPUs, first...
Netflix Adopts Cloud-Native Job Queueing System Kueue to Replace an In-House Solution
Netflix migrated most of its batch workloads onto Kueue, an open-source cloud-native batch job execution system that has outgrown its homegrown solution over the years. The company mapped the capabilities previously created in-house to Kueue’s functionality and also benefited from new features that would have been costly to incorporate into its homegrown solution.
“That product is off the market, so I think there’s absolutely lower risk for cyclospora in terms of eating lettuce,” one professor of food safety tells WIRED.