Japan's devs on Claude Code: nerve, not capability
Originally published in TL;JP , a weekly, fact-checked read on what Japanese AI and tech practitioners are saying on X. This is the Oct 6-12, 2026 i…
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Originally published in TL;JP , a weekly, fact-checked read on what Japanese AI and tech practitioners are saying on X. This is the Oct 6-12, 2026 i…
Traditional Japanese flip phones, known as gara-kei, survived for decades with unique local features before final 3G network shutdowns ended their e…
Search for "software engineer salary Japan" and you'll find numbers anywhere from ¥4M to ¥15M. They're not all wrong — they're measuring different p…
The first thing that threw me about watching engineers join a Japanese dev team is how the day opens. Not with "hi," not with "good morning" past ab…
If you build anything that needs to understand the Japanese market — competitor monitoring, PR analytics, a RAG assistant for a sales team — you qui…
Every engineer has met a cursed codebase. The file nobody edits without a small prayer. The function with a comment that says "DO NOT TOUCH" and no…
Hello from Japan. I've been reading DEV for a while and finally decided to stop lurking. My career I've spent about 20 years as a software engineer…
i built 128 things with AI in four months. then i made an AI dissect every one of them, and the verdict was uncomfortable: good at building, beginne…
If your app has Japanese users — or wants them — there's a bug class your English-speaking team will almost never hit, and Japanese users hit in the…
If you're trying to figure out how to get permanent residency in Japan under the 2026 rules, here's the release note you can't skip. On Feb 24, 2026…
Extends an earlier model-selection benchmark to three model families (Japanese / Western / Chinese) on a Japanese RAG task. Repo + raw results: http…
When you start researching Japanese knives, four brand names come up constantly: KAI, Global, Tojiro, Miyabi. They're often presented as interchange…
Japanese App Store Screenshots: Why Direct Translation From English Doesn't Work Localizing your app for Japan? If you just ran your English screens…
Record earnings. A 9% Berkshire stake. 9x forward earnings. The LNG and iron ore thesis — and the two risks that could break it. Mitsui & Co. di…
¥1.17 Trillion in annual profit. Japan's largest corporate buyback. A 9% Berkshire Hathaway stake. And yet the stock trades at 10 times earnings. Th…