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24 links from the last 24 hours ยท 22 October 2026

ZLS 0.17.0

zigtools: We make free and open-source tools for the @ziglang community.

Asking LLM for confidence

LLM-based agents can do a lot of tasks. Or, at least, they can appear to do them. For example, they write code, summarize papers, plan trips, and fill in forms. If you ask one for a probability or a confidence score, it will give you one of those too. I have s…

The Rise of Highly Personal Software – Michael Bassili

I think there’s a strong desire for uniquely personalized software permeating the market these days, spurred by the commodification of cheap large language models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. We saw companies try their hand as enabling this kind of beha…

Design files are becoming text

A design saved as JSON is plain text that scripts, LLMs and validators can read and write. How the format works, what it unlocks, and what still breaks in production.

Merge conflicts got boring

Coding agents got good at resolving merge conflicts this year, and racing your coworkers to merge first stopped making sense.

Local Mode — Firefox Source Docs documentation

This feature allows you to register multiple mappings in order to load local files through custom https:// URLs. This prevents having to spawn a HTTP server to test a web page. This makes it easy to test all Web APIs, including the ones being restricted to Sec…

Good Engineering Isn't the Point — Mike Longin

"Don't fuck up the product." I was sitting across the table from Scott Scherr, the founder and CEO of Ultimate Software, sharing a drink when he gave me that advice. It wasn't particularly eloquent, and it certainly wasn't the kind of carefully polished corpo…

Hospitals Already Solved Agent Handoffs

When agents do the execution, every result comes back to you as a handoff. Medicine, the military and aviation worked out long ago how to hand over to someone who has little time and has to decide.