Eyeballing every diff is not how you verify what an agent changed
Simon Willison posted a short note on 22 August 2026 that, in three sentences, named the skill everyone who uses a coding agent is supposed to be learning. The skill is twofold.…
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vllm gives a small agent stack real concurrency without rewrites
Inference is where most agent projects hit a wall, and the wall is not a model problem. It is a serving problem. The freeCodeCamp walkthrough by Darsh Shah on scaling LLM (large…
observability is the nervous system your stack already has
If you have ever paged someone at 2 a.m. because a checkout flow looked slow but every dashboard said “green,” you already know the cost of running infrastructure you cannot actually see.…
Research note: a paper showed reasoning traces were reusable, briefly
There is a paper that landed on a vanity domain this week, and the finding is the kind of thing that makes you stop what you are doing. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google…
A Linux document pipeline you can wire together from free tools
A document processing pipeline is a sequence of automated stages that turns documents into usable information. The stages vary by document, but the bones are usually the same: detect new files, prep…
Docker Sandboxes puts AI coding agents in their own VM
Docker’s answer to the rise of autonomous AI coding agents is a small command-line tool that wraps each agent in its own disposable virtual machine. The premise is simple: an agent that…
Five things worth doing first on the Galaxy Z Fold 8
Most reviewers treat the first five minutes with a new phone like a checklist of inbox-zero housekeeping. With the Galaxy Z Fold 8, that is the wrong frame. The phone ships as…
a2-stuff/Indicium-Mail-TUI brings Rust mail reading to the terminal
Email is one of those tools that keeps getting heavier. Every few years the mainstream clients add another sidebar, another chat panel, another AI button sitting on top of the same IMAP…
A production deployment explained, and when to hand it off
I have watched small engineering teams burn six months building a deploy pipeline before the first feature shipped on top of it. I have also watched teams skip the pipeline entirely and…
Three ways to bend a hostile website to your will, no coding required
Personal software is having a moment. AI lets anyone build a working tool from a sentence. The same trick that turns a prompt into a side-project app can also turn a website…