19 February 2026

27 links · Thursday

AI makes you boring

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if …

Gemini 3.1 Pro - Model Card

Gemini 3.1 Pro is the next iteration in the Gemini 3 series of models, a suite of highly capable, natively multimodal reasoning models.

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet

This is why we can't have nice things. Referenced in this video: - Ars Technica's redaction: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/ - Ars Technica Author's response: https:/…

PostgreSQL Bloat Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Introduction Your PostgreSQL database keeps growing, even though the number of rows stays roughly the same. Disk usage climbs, queries slow down, and you wonder what the heck is happening. It’s not a bug - it’s called bloat and it’s baked into the core design …

Coding assistant experience

I’m a modest LLM skeptic. It’s not that I don’t believe in LLMs, I am aware that they exist, I just know that they’re not doing what people do when we think, and that they&#…

Software Engineering Is a Joke (Three of Them, Actually)

“There is a theory that if anyone discovers exactly why the Universe is here, it will instantly be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Another theory states this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams

WolfSSL Doesn't Suck

You're Just Holding It Wrong My previous post made some rounds on the internet. However, there has been a happy ending to this saga. I've revisited my test environment as their requirement of building the library with WOLFSSL_TLS13_MIDDLEBOX_COMPAT and still n…

The future of social media is human

We cannot continue participating in social media platforms which do nothing to stop us being tricked by GenAI and the powerful people/governments that control them.

The End of Local | Charlie Labs

As agents become autonomous, the local IDE model hits a ceiling — and async remote agents become the default.