HTMX is fine until the third stakeholder wants a modal
HTMX was successfully implemented in a production environment earlier this year. Then, out of the blue, the third stakeholder expressed their desire…
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Feature flags are the loaded gun modern deploys pretend is safe
A trading firm experienced a loss of $440 million within 45 minutes. This was not due to a cyber attack or a sudden crash in the market. It was a fo…
A little copy-paste is cheaper than the wrong abstraction
One time I deleted what seemed to be a duplicated file, but it reappeared. I deleted it again, and the same thing happened. I did this three times b…
Whiteboard interviews died the day AI could solve them live
The whiteboard interview went away not because it was inhumane, but because it lost out to a bot that could flicker faster than you could squeak the…
Shift Left was how ops got fired and devs got the pager
Someone on a developer forum referred to Shift Left as a "psy-op" last week. I found it amusing. Then I realized they were correct. The concept of S…
The $11k cloud bill was mostly the tools you added to watch the cloud bill
A startup with only six engineers calculated the cost of their monthly cloud bill to be $11,847. The majority of the data generated was not from the…
Opinion: The Diff Is a Claim, the Probe Is the Proof
Opinion: The Diff Is a Claim, the Probe Is the Proof A generated patch is a claim about how a system should behave, and a diff cannot verify that cl…
This Last Week in AI: Aug 8, 2026
Five stories defined the AI industry the week of August 3. Cloudflare launched a browser purpose-built for AI agents. Five of the biggest companies…
AI Coding, One Year Later: What August 2025 Didn't See Coming
It's coming up on a year since the models actually changed. Not incremental, a real shift in what AI can do for engineers. In that year the whole la…
OpenAI Presence: Voice Agents You Can't Self-Serve
OpenAI Presence is an enterprise product for deploying voice and chat agents, announced on July 22, 2026, and you cannot buy it with an API key. Dep…
SQLite runs more production than the modern data stack wants you to believe
One ANALYZE command resulted in a 100x query speedup for one person. There was no need to restart the server, reconfigure the network, or receive an…
Disposable code is a psyop by people who don't maintain anything
There is an increasing trend on the internet stating that in the AI era, code longevity is “questionable if not problematic". The argument continues…
Qwen Is Not Yet Ready to Power Local OpenClaw Deployments
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in…
Opinion: JetBrains 2026.2 Is Worth the License Cost — It's 30% Faster Than VS Code 2026 for Java 22
Opinion: JetBrains 2026.2 Is Worth the License Cost — It's 30% Faster Than VS Code 2026 for Java 22 The release of Java 22 in early 2026 brought a h…