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A Million Agents Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Once you run thousands of AI agents, the hard part isn’t prompts—it’s scheduling, fatigue, overload, and coordination. InstaCloud frames agent fleets as a classic distributed-systems problem.
8 min · 1,877 words
Vibe Coding Is Easy. Production Isn't.
Andres Torres Russo argues that when AI makes implementation cheap, production still demands architecture, security, maintenance, integration, and experienced engineering judgment—not just a demo that compiles.
10 min · 2,311 words
Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Mohamed Elashri argues CERN and Fermilab undervalued Scientific Linux’s option value: after CentOS and RHEL source-access shifts, accelerator controls are now moving thousands of machines to Debian to keep old hardware alive.
9 min · 2,133 words
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
The abstract for article “The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection” paints this picture for the reader… **Abstract** – Code review has been the primary quality gate in software development since Fagan formalised code inspection in 1976.
5 min · 1,129 words
There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
Dan Luu argues that turning off critical judgment while using LLMs fails in practice: when people let models take actions or produce analyses without verification, errors compound — there is no safe point at which you can stop thinking.
12 min · 2,831 words
Christoph Nakazawa updates his LLM workflow and names values that still matter with coding agents: ownership, taste, guardrails, repo context, owning your stack, and option value.
2 min · 552 words
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
A hands-on story of climbing into Portobello’s old police-station clock tower to diagnose a stopped nineteenth-century clock—dust, gears, and the small engineering of making time move again.
6 min · 1,406 words
lcamtuf argues that electronically controlled working memory—not Babbage—was the real bottleneck unlocked on the path to modern computers, tracing early registers, delay lines, and RAM.
8 min · 1,775 words
A clear comparison of union types and sum types: how they overlap, where their subtle differences change API design and safety, and when each model fits better in modern languages.
9 min · 1,967 words