19 June 2026

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Comparison is a con

The most important thing I've done isn't on my CV

"Optimizing" concurrent regexes

I am looking into some regex work, and I ran into a performance problem. I need to run a particular regex over a large number (millions) of strings. That cau...

Status Is a Distributed System

Why deployment status is not a UI label, but a consistency problem across databases, queues, workers, locks, reconcilers, Kubernetes, and user trust.

My agentic engineering workflow (step by step) | Shreyas

My agentic engineering workflow has changed in the recent past, the models are better, there is much more freedom in choosing the harness, selecting the abilities and actions you could provide. - Pre-planning, pre-idea, pre-everything - The first chat with the…

Self-improving agents still need humans

Terminal-bench-style scores are tempting progress numbers and very easy to overfit. Used carefully, though, they are a pile of bug reports. goose's Harbor tooling made it cheap to run, pull, compare and explain failures, which led to two small fixes: turn awar…

The Wrong End of the Problem

Every company wants AI in their development process right now. That part is clear. What’s less clear is where they’re putting it.

IN THE WEIGHTS

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?