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The Pragmatic EngineerPeter Mattis on AI-amplified engineering: domain expertise matters more than ever.
Cockroach Labs CTO returns to coding with AI, producing production database code at unprecedented speed. Key insight: domain expertise is the amplifier.
AI EngineerAI coding assistants are boosting volume — but quality is suffering
DX's platform data from 200,000+ engineers reveals a tradeoff: AI boosts raw throughput but PR size grows 64%, change confidence drops 6%, and change failure…
InfoQYour AI tool choice matters less than your team's culture of safety
Psychological safety is the overlooked prerequisite for AI adoption. Without it, teams get stuck in polarization and silence.
Theo - t3․ggModel wave proves pacing is working: AI is getting less dumb
The new model wave is not proof that frontier pacing failed. It is the strategy working: cheaper, more reliable models, not smarter ones.
AI EngineerDoorDash shows why LLM distillation beats real-time serving
DoorDash's search team doesn't call LLMs online. They distill reasoning into offline primitives—graded labels, semantic IDs, memory blocks—that every…
No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsBuying incumbents to refound them as AI-first companies: is it real?
Sequence Holdings is buying incumbents in banking and insurance, then refounding them as AI-first operations. Early results from a community bank show 94%…
Machine Learning Street TalkTabular deep learning finally works. Default tools are about to shift.
TabPFN 3 makes deep learning work for tabular data, outperforming XGBoost in a single forward pass. The bottleneck shifts from model tuning to problem framing.
Theo - t3․ggOpus 5.5 fixes quality, but the effort trap costs more than tokens.
Opus 5.5 is a genuine coding upgrade at better pricing, but max effort is a token furnace and design work still needs Fable. The real win? Zero data…
Theo - t3․ggGrok 4.7: The Expensive Stepchild of the AI Model Race
Grok 4.7 promised to be the best model ever. It costs 2x more than GPT-6 Astra, has AI safety mishaps, and a fish-slope game so bad it's meme-worthy. The…
AI EngineerSilent vLLM Bugs: How Stale State and Integer Overflow Hid in Plain
AI21 engineers debugged two silent vLLM bugs in Mamba inference: stale state from scheduling errors and integer overflow. No crashes, no warnings.
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