Large language models have become incredibly powerful—yet they share an unsettling trait with humans: they sometimes make things up. But unlike a human’s white lie, LLM hallucinations are statistical fabrications born from the model’s attempt...
The Pragmatic Engineer’s experiment shows why “good enough” SaaS products are about to face extinction. The Core Insight Gergely Orosz had a $120/year subscription to Shoutout.io, a simple service that displayed testimonials on his website....
Modal Labs targeting $2.5B valuation as the real AI gold rush shifts from training to running models While the tech press obsesses over who’s training the biggest model, a quieter revolution is happening in AI...
Ever wondered why some AI assistants feel genuinely helpful while others seem to forget what you just said? The secret lies in architecture—and specifically, in how these systems handle memory. The Core Insight Lilian Weng’s...
Martin Fowler’s conversation with Unmesh Joshi and Rebecca Parsons cuts through the hype around LLM-assisted programming to identify a fundamental truth: programming isn’t about translating requirements into syntax—it’s about building systems that survive change. The...
Gergely Orosz of The Pragmatic Engineer just demonstrated something that should concern every micro-SaaS founder: he replaced a four-year subscription to a testimonials service with LLM-generated code in exactly 20 minutes. The trigger? Broken billing...
A rigorous empirical study demolishes common assumptions about how to structure context for LLM agents operating on structured data. The Core Insight Every AI agent needs context. But how should you format that context? YAML?...
Ask a trial lawyer if AI could replace her and she won’t even look up from her brief. Ask a startup founder who’s never practiced law and he’ll tell you it’s already happening. They’re both...
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...
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...