2026-06-19
What Healthcare Engineers Know About Building Reliable Systems That Web Engineers Don’t
Web engineering prizes speed and scale, but healthcare engineering offers a deeper lesson: silent failure is the worst kind of failure.
Agentic AI: The Next Cybersecurity Challenge
Agentic AI can reason, plan, and act—but it also creates new security risks that traditional governance models were never built to handle.
Using Agents to Fix Our Agents
Browser automation breaks constantly, and the same error string often hides completely different root causes, so triage means humans investigate a trace. We pointed a second AI at the first...
Sharing Data Across Languages Without Serialization
Learn why zero-copy cross-language data sharing is difficult, from memory layout mismatches to ABI violations and ownership disputes.
Mutter AI Dictation
Private AI dictation that lets you operate offline. Discussion | Link
Plansera AI
E-2 visa business plans, drafted by an AI Discussion | Link
Your Redshift Cluster Is Probably Idle 85% of the Time — And You're Paying for All of It
Your Redshift cluster is probably idle most of the day and billing you for all of it. Here's the SQL query, the breakeven formula, and two real production cases that...
The Real Reason You Lose Money Isn't Analysis
Two traders read the same chart. One wins, one blows up. Why most trading losses are behavioral, not analytical — and the one habit that fixes it.
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Shows Why AI Cyber Defense Needs Collaboration
No single organization can defend against AI-powered attacks alone.
The Case for Black and Asian Solidarity
A reflection on grief, rage, self-reliance, and why communities must move beyond temporary patches toward long-term cultural resilience.
Vibe Coding Dies the Moment It Meets a Legacy System
Vibe coding feels magical until it hits legacy systems. Real software has history, hidden dependencies, brittle contracts, and production consequences that AI-generated code cannot safely ignore.
The Anatomy of an LLM Citation: How B2B Content Actually Gets Picked Up by AI Search Engines
A reverse-engineered look at what makes ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and Google AI Overviews cite one B2B site over another, even when traditional SEO metrics tell a different story.
The Model Context Protocol Is an Enterprise Backdoor
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining rapid adoption as a plug-and-play standard for giving AI agents direct access to databases, filesystems, and internal APIs. However, because it relies on...
A Question the World's Reserve Managers Never Had to Ask, Until Now
The dollar's share of global reserves has fallen to about 57%, its lowest in three decades, and institutions are asking what else can serve as a reserve asset. A century...
I'm Becoming a Progress Junkie (and AI is the Dealer)
A randomized trial says AI may make experienced devs slower while they feel faster — and the gap may be narrowing as tools improve, but the perception/reality bias is still...
Building a Fake Solar Plant for Cybersecurity Research — Part 3
An exposed energy-themed honeypot gets discovered in under an hour, then faces continuous brute force, web scanning, and protocol-aware Modbus reconnaissance, with zero write or control attempts. Part 3 turns...
I Moved From Building Dashboards to Designing Decision Systems
I realised descriptive dashboards were not enough because people still needed analysts to interpret the numbers. By designing around decisions, adding context, moving logic into the data layer, and reducing...
You Do Not Need Claude Opus for Every Step. Here Is How to Cut Your Agent Costs by 90%.
Most teams building AI agents default to running every step through the same frontier model. That is the most expensive possible architecture and often not the best-performing one either. The...
Search Before a Search Engine
A search feature gets slow not because you lack a search engine, but because the access pattern outgrew the data model. To fix it before buying new infrastructure, you climb...
Running Windows NT On The Nintendo Gamecube
The Nintendo GameCube is known for playing the best version of Smash Bros. and its vaguely rectangular aesthetic. It’s not particularly known for running a workstation OS from the mid-1990s....
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