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Process changes that affect focus, throughput, and quality. Curated tldw.news briefings about productivity & process, with practical engineering takeaways from long-form AI and developer-tool videos.
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GOTO ConferencesYour Architecture Process Is the Bottleneck
Decentralizing architecture decisions with advice processes and ADRs removes bottlenecks, but demands trust and a cultural shift away from gatekeeping.
InfoQCommunity and Maturity Model, Not Tools, Drove Meta’s AI Gains
Meta’s team tripled code coverage with AI using a self‑assessment maturity model and grassroots community—but the speed exposed a looming code‑review crisis.
Machine Learning Street TalkThe Real AlphaFold Lesson: Kill Your Darlings, Not Just Scale
AlphaFold 2's 30-point leap came from ruthless ablation, not SE(3) equivariance. The 100x efficiency gain is a wake-up call for scale-obsessed teams.
Y CombinatorYour First Users Won't Come from Outreach Tools
Scaling outreach early is a trap: YC founders found the first customers come from personal networks and unscalable manual effort, not tools.
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Theo - t3․ggAI Makes Rebuilding NPM, Git, and Slack a Small-Team Sport
Theo argues AI agents make rebuilding foundational tools like NPM and Git feasible for small teams—but network effects remain the real barrier.
David OndrejYour Notes Are Now a Target for Automation
Tethering agents to personal wikis turns notes into live context, but the governance gap widens every time the tool writes to disk.
IBM TechnologyYour Backups Are Useless If You Don't Test Recovery
The 3-2-1-1-0 rule upgrades classic backup strategy with immutability and recovery testing. Untested backups are just corporate mythology.
David OndrejMatt Pocock’s Agentic Engineering Workflow (just copy him)
A short briefing on the practical engineering implications, trade-offs, and claims worth ignoring.
Theo - t3․ggStop Prompting. Start Designing the Loop.
One engineer's psychological pivot from 'prompting agents' to 'designing loops that prompt agents' reveals a massive arbitrage in subscription-tier pricing. They landed 4 stacked PRs overnight with dynamic, self-reviewing workflows—and couldn't even hit their rate limit.
Latent SpaceWhy AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
A short briefing on the practical engineering implications, trade-offs, and claims worth ignoring.
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