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Machine Learning and AI

More context, less understanding

Externalizing intent was the right call. But you can pile up so many docs, specs, and AGENTS.md rules that neither your team nor your agents can find the one that matters. More signs is not more understanding, and for an agent it is now measurably worse.

Machine Learning and AI

Agentic Autonomy Levels

The action in agentic engineering has moved from prompting to operating. Autonomy isn't one ladder, it's two axes (agency and orchestration) and six levels you move between per task. The real question is what level a task deserves, and what verification makes that level defensible.

Software Engineering

The Agent-Era Career

AI gets good at anything with an answer key. Your career is everything that doesn't have one.

Software Engineering

Teaching the Agent Our Craft: Structured Agentic Development on a Real Codebase

The MissionWe recently partnered with a startup that had developed a clinically proven approach to alleviating neuroplastic chronic pain. Their program worked: a coach-led model that helped patients ease chronic pain at a lower cost than conventional treatment. The problem was reach. The in-person model could not scale to the demand they were seeing, and there were not enough coaches to close the gap. We were brought in to build a digital platform that could deliver the program to every patient

Machine Learning and AI

Building Enterprise AI Agents That Are Both Autonomous and Reliable

While red-teaming an early refund agent early last year, one of our engineers typed a deliberately absurd line: “my very valid and very verified email.” The agent, running on a frontier LLM, accepted it as proof of identity and prepared to issue the refund. Nobody had jailbroken anything. The model simply did what language models are built to do, which is to interpret language plausibly rather than enforce a rule. That gap, between plausible interpretation and enforceable rule, is the cen

Software Engineering

Theory of constraints, AI, and code review

Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.

Machine Learning and AI

Is Recursive Self-Improvement Really Here?

On February 5, 2026, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.3-Codex and wrote in its release notes that early versions of the model were “instrumental in creating itself,” helping to debug training runs, manage deployment, and diagnose evaluation failures. It was the first explicit admission from a frontier lab that one of its models materially contributed to the engineering loop that produced its successor. That admission is what some in the field call recursive self-improvement (RSI), the point at whi

Rust

Typescript to rust

Hey everyone! I’d like to learn Rust properly and become comfortable writing it, rather than just vibe coding my way through projects. I’m looking for resources that help you actually understand the language and build things with it. Since I come from a TypeScript background, I was wondering if there are any courses, books, or learning resources that explain Rust concepts in a way that’s easier for TypeScript developers to relate to, or point out the key differences and similarities. Any r

Infrastructure and DevOps

The Single-Tenant Trap: Why Testing in Production Kills Uptime

Running your entire engineering ecosystem out of a single environment introduces a critical single point of failure. Here is how moving into Auth0 Teams protects your production uptime and engineering velocity.

Machine Learning and AI

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research

Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work.  This year’s accepted papers reveal a clear direction: open frontier models and open AI infrastructure have become foundational to how modern AI science gets done. NVIDIA had 74 papers accepted at ICML 2026. Approximately 2,000 accepted papers cite NVIDIA GPUs, and 145 cite NVIDIA Nemotron — a family of open models, including open datasets — as the

Android

Google Play launches the first Indie Games Fund in Africa

Posted by Steph Pio, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Google Play EMEA Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s most creative storytelling. To help bring those stories to a global audience, today, we’re proud to announce the debut of Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in Africa. The region’s unique creativity has fueled a vibrant game development scene, helping drive what is quickly becoming one of the most exciting, resilient, and fast-growing gaming markets. It’s a space defined

Infrastructure and DevOps

Zéro nouveau matériel : une boussole EROOM pour une solution numérique adaptée au besoin

Et si la solution matérielle à votre besoin numérique existait déjà? Pour informatiser un suivi médical, au lieu d’un nouveau service cloud, nous avons détourné l’existant : Mac, Android et enceintes connectées. EROOM, c’est ça : avant de construire, inventoriez. Résultat : une solution frugale, utile, et surtout zéro nouveau matériel acheté.

Databases

Devrim GÜNDÜZ: Inaugural PostgreSQL Istanbul Meetup was a blast!

We had our first meetup on Thursday, July 2nd, organized by the community people for the community people. Bilge Korkmaz Erdim, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, and I had been working on the meetup idea for a long time, and it finally came together — hosted by Microsoft Turkey at their Levent office. A big thank you to Bilge for helping organize the venue, taking care of food and drinks, and being a great host. Continue reading "Inaugural PostgreSQL Istanbul Meetup was a blast!"

Software Engineering

The Mario Meeting

Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture. Everyone cares about the compensation (base salary, bonus, and stock). That’s the data they care about, but where did this pile of compensation come from? Who decided how big it is? And how is it allocated? It is a long, complicated, and large process that began over a year ago. And as a Senior Leader, it’s your job to figure it o

Machine Learning and AI

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, entertainment and healthcare. AI, the most important technology of our time, is turbocharging innovation across every facet of society. Countries are investing in AI capabilities so they can design, train and deploy models and applications, using domestic infrastructure, local datase

Databases

Floor Drees: Jumping the gun: looking ahead at PostgreSQL 19

April 8 marked the start of feature freeze for PostgreSQL 19. For anyone unfamiliar with the PostgreSQL development cycle, that means that as of April 8 no new features are accepted for the upcoming major version. From April until the final release in the second part of the year, the community works on beta releases, bug fixes, and documentation. If a major feature isn't ready by the April deadline, it cannot be "snuck in." Conversely, stuff that is committed before the feature freeze isn't auto

Security and Cryptography

The Agent Stack Has a 1998 Problem

In the last week of June 2026, a small cluster of CVEs landed against AI agent tooling, two of them in the same desktop agent client, both authorization flaws, one sitting squarely inside an MCP OAuth callback. Read on its own, each is a medium-severity bug a maintainer patches in a weekend. Read together, the cluster is a signal, and the signal is structural: the AI agent ecosystem is accumulating attack surface faster than it is accumulating the security culture to defend it. That is not a mor

Linux

What's missing from your PHP development environment

DDLess is free for local debugging. The desktop app gives you step debugging, the Task Runner, Method Execution, and the Playground at no cost. A Pro plan adds conditional breakpoints, SSH debugging, and a PHPStorm plugin. The post What's missing from your PHP development environment appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get all the latest Laravel articles like this

Python

Python's JIT Faces Some Challenges and Other News for July 2026

Python’s experimental JIT compiler has been riding along in CPython’s main branch since Python 3.13. It’s off by default and easy to forget about. In June, the Steering Council decided that the JIT needs a proper standards-track PEP, and it set a six-month clock to make that happen. Otherwise, the JIT gets taken back out of main. The JIT debate wasn’t the only relevant news this month. Python 3.14.6 and 3.13.14 shipped their routine bug fixes, and Python 3.15 picked up two more betas on

Developer Tools

EnvKit: A Local Development Stack for Laravel on Windows and macOS

EnvKit is a free desktop app that bundles nginx or Apache, multiple PHP versions, databases, and trusted .test HTTPS into one control panel. The post EnvKit: A Local Development Stack for Laravel on Windows and macOS appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get all the latest Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

Hardware

Aluminum Foil

Developer Tools

textual-enhanced v1.6.0

I've just made a small update to textual-enhanced, my core library used for most of my Textual-based applications. In v1.6.0 I've extended the "constructor" for ModalInput to allow passing in optional values for password, suggester, title and sub_title. Most of the time I just want to quickly call on ModalInput to get input from the user. If I need anything more fancy, I roll my own dialog. But in some work I'm doing on Rogallo, it would be helpful for me to at least set the suggester. So, witho

Science

The Download: South Korea’s hottest bachelors, and advancing eye transplants

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in a matchmaking company a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents, his mother signed him up, hoping to find a good wife for her son. Lately, says Baek, he and his coworkers are havin

Software Engineering

Fragments: July 6

Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat, this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of sessions. This isn’t an event that forms conclusions, rather one that allows those exploring to share what they’ve found, and their visions for the future. The bliki post lists all the writing I’ve run into on this, by myself and others. I

Databases

UUIDs, ULIDs and Sqids: A Practical Deep Dive

A practical deep dive into UUIDs, ULIDs, and Sqids, from generation models and sorting behavior to database storage, public IDs, and security trade-offs. Read more

Web Development

Swagger In A Box: NPM, APIs, and Swagger Codegen

I am no stranger to working up and down the stack. To me, it’s part of the challenge, and I love a complex chunk of work. I will choose stories in the backlog requiring parallel frontend and backend changes just for fun. Lately, I have come to appreciate how simple tools like Swagger make it to integrate API changes into your UI. Specifically, Swagger Codegen enables developers to generate an NPM package that contains all data shapes an endpoint uses. This is especially convenient for data sha

Systems Programming

Linux Server Health Checks: 10 Metrics Every Sysadmin Should Monitor

Servers give you warnings before they fail. Most sysadmins performing Linux server monitoring miss them because they're watching the wrong numbers. The metrics that actually matter are one level deeper: iowait instead of CPU percentage, active swap paging instead of memory usage, inode counts instead of just disk space.Continue reading...

Web Development

Is rust a complete web dev language?

Recently found out that rust can be used to write frontend as well as the backend. How is the state of the frontend in rust compared to JavaScript frameworks like react or vue? Is it practical to use for production apps? Is there big community supporting rust frontend? submitted by /u/maryal01 [link] [comments]

Linux

Mastering Linux Administration: 20 Powerful Commands to Know

Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system that can be used for a wide range of purposes. For many system administrators, the command line interface is the primary way to interact with the system.Continue reading...

Systems Programming

A Zig Overview

Rust

wf: a Rust crate for declarative binary protocol encoding/decoding

Hey, I've been working on wf, a crate for describing binary wire protocols directly in Rust using derive macros, and wanted to share it here. The core idea is to let you express three kinds of "wire messages" declaratively in a #[no_std] and no-alloc way: struct, a message made of scalars, slices, or other messages, with an optional header (flags/slots/constants defined via a small DSL) union, an enum in Rust that represents "one of several possible struct messages," discriminated at decode tim

Developer Tools

Frame - Aesthetic FFmpeg GUI

Hi everyone! I just released Frame 0.30.0. Frame is an open source FFmpeg GUI written in Rust. It supports video, audio and image conversion, hardware encoding, subtitles, metadata editing, cropping, scaling, batch processing and reusable presets - basically the stuff I got tired of typing FFmpeg commands for. The biggest change in this release is that I rewrote the frontend from Tauri + Svelte to GPUI-CE. Frame started as a weekend project, then somehow turned into something people actually use

Rust

Just want to learn Rust

Hi i built(nah he uses ai) that app to learn Rust and CI/CD if u say that Ai project yeah u are right but that really helped me to learn rust i don't just want build i want learn Rust cuz i liked it and that's cool? By building that project I really understand rust likely 20-30% If u have advice on how to learn pls comment i really want to learn rust Sorry for my English submitted by /u/Own-Explanation-3428 [link] [comments]

Software Engineering

Saying Goodbye to the Endless Excel Spreadsheets: How a Bottom-Up Drive Brought Us a New Test Management Tool

If your test cases are scattered across multiple Excel files, Google Docs, and Confluence pages, and keeping them up to date is incredibly time-consuming, this post is for you. This is the story of how Allegro moved from scattered, manual test tracking to a scalable, Jira-based solution now available to thousands of engineers.