StrongDM’s AI team has achieved something that sounds like engineering heresy: they’re building security software where no human ever looks at the code. And they’re spending $1,000 per engineer per day on tokens to do...
After 25 years of evolution, the Integrated Development Environment may have just met its successor. And it happened faster than anyone expected. The Core Insight David Crawshaw, who has been documenting his journey with AI...
Stop fighting the chatbot. Start engineering the harness. If you’ve been circling AI coding tools with suspicion—or worse, trying them and bouncing off—you’re not alone. The hype machine says these tools will 10x your productivity....
Fabien Sanglard’s guide reads like a point-and-click adventure game, and that’s kind of the point Fabien Sanglard wrote a guide to compiling Quake using the exact tools from 1997, and honestly? Reading it feels less...
German security agencies: “Hey, that ‘Signal Support’ texting you? That’s not Signal.” German intelligence dropped a warning this week that’s almost embarrassing in how simple it is: state-sponsored hackers are going after Signal users—politicians, military,...
Jonathan Whiting explains his language choice, and honestly, it makes more sense than you’d think Everyone’s using Unity or Unreal these days. Or at least that’s what the discourse would have you believe. So when...
How logarithms, self-modifying code, and 8-bit fractions enable the impossible The Challenge The Game Boy Color has no multiply instruction. No floating point. An 8 MHz processor (roughly 140,000 cycles per frame). And yet, a...
The last generation of hand-crafted code—and why the grief is real The Uncomfortable Truth “The worst fact about these tools is that they work.” That’s the statement that cuts through all the debates about AI...
A developer’s existential dread about the future of software craftsmanship—and whether anyone will care when it dies. The Core Insight Here’s the nightmare scenario: AI stops improving tomorrow. What do we have? Models that can...
Understanding Quality of Service and the architecture that keeps background tasks where they belong The Counterintuitive Truth Ask most people why their Apple Silicon Mac is fast, and they’ll point to the Performance cores. It’s...