David Crawshaw has been on the front lines of agent development since before Claude Code launched. His latest update after eight more months reveals surprising conclusions—including why he’s abandoned his IDE for Vi. The Core...
What if you could manage an entire development team—without hiring anyone? One developer’s experience reveals why the shift from AI-assisted coding to AI-managed projects represents a genuine paradigm change. The Core Insight Reorx, a developer...
There’s a growing unease among senior developers watching colleagues embrace AI-generated code with abandon. Not because the code doesn’t work—it often does, at first glance. The discomfort runs deeper: we’re watching an industry collectively outsource...
Jay Bhattacharya’s vision for improving scientific reproducibility has merit—but his motivations and political alliances may doom the effort The head of the National Institutes of Health recently announced his intention to launch a “second scientific...
When you realize that what looks like magic in silicon is actually just clever engineering There’s something deeply satisfying about reverse engineering vintage hardware. Not just because it reveals how our computational foundations were built,...
Every security engineer knows the feeling: another alert from your SAST tool, another hour spent verifying whether it’s real or yet another false positive. With false positive rates above 60% in traditional tools, teams become...
Here’s a statistic that should stop every AI-hyped developer in their tracks: when experienced developers use AI coding tools, they take 19% longer to complete tasks—while simultaneously believing they’re working 24% faster. This might be...
Oxide Computer Company just raised a $200M Series C, and yes, you should do a double take. This is the same company that famously warned about the perils of raising too much money. So what...
There’s a feeling that experienced programmers aren’t talking about enough. It’s not burnout. It’s not impostor syndrome. It’s grief. The Core Insight Gergely Orosz from The Pragmatic Engineer recently shared something that resonated deeply with...
Runway just raised $315 million to build something that sounds wild: AI systems that construct internal representations of reality. Forget video generation—this is about teaching machines to understand physics. The Core Insight Runway has nearly...