Here’s a truth every AI engineer has confronted: letting an LLM run arbitrary Python code is terrifying, but sandboxing it properly is painful. Docker containers take hundreds of milliseconds to start. Pyodide cold starts are...
OpenAI just dropped something remarkable: GPT-5.3-Codex, a model that was instrumental in creating itself. Yes, you read that correctly—the Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage deployment, and diagnose evaluations. We’ve...
Have you ever wondered why a ChatGPT-drafted email seems perfectly polite yet gets completely ignored? Or why an AI-generated contract looks professional but a lawyer spots vulnerabilities in seconds? The answer reveals a fundamental limitation...
The speech-to-text market just got disrupted. Mistral’s Voxtral Transcribe 2 release delivers state-of-the-art transcription quality at price points that make competitors look like legacy pricing—and they’re giving away the real-time model under Apache 2.0. The...
In 2021, the IDE had won. Copilot made auto-complete so powerful that fighting with environment integration seemed worth it. Four years later, David Crawshaw—founder at Tailscale and Sketch—is back on Vi. Vi is turning 50...
There’s a peculiar irony in the AI coding discourse: everyone’s talking about it, but few are sharing the messy, iterative path to actually making it work. Mitchell Hashimoto—the creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and Ghostty—just dropped...
What happens when you let 16 Claude instances collaborate on building a C compiler that can compile the Linux kernel? Anthropic’s Nicholas Carlini just showed us—and the results challenge everything we thought we knew about...
Remember when everyone was certain that AI-powered IDEs would dominate the future of programming? David Crawshaw does—and he just wrote the obituary for that era. The Core Insight Crawshaw, who has been documenting his AI...
Your employees are using more AI tools than you can count. They’re embedded in SaaS platforms, browsers, extensions, copilots, and a growing universe of shadow tools that appear faster than security teams can track. Here’s...
Security researchers love the SVG spec because it’s enormous and full of surprises. Case in point: Roundcube’s HTML sanitizer carefully blocked remote images on <img>, <image>, and <use> elements—but completely missed <feImage>. The result? Email...