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Context management is an underrated habit
How you manage context in a Claude Code session has a direct effect on both your token bill and the quality of what you get back. Do it well and you spend less for better work. An efficient session gives Claude the context it needs to finish the job while removing context that has stopped being useful. That means starting with a lean setup, keeping investigations focused, and deliberately deciding when to continue, compact, or start again. Here are the context management techniques we use on the
5 min · 1,257 words
Engineer-Led, AI-Assisted: A Practical Workflow for Building Software
Nathan Pickard describes an engineer-led, AI-assisted software workflow covering planning, development, testing, code review, and context management—arguing AI depends on engineering judgment rather than replacing it.
20 min · 4,529 words
Osborne Saldanha’s practical playbook from running personal agents for trading, health, and investing: isolate one profile per job, separate skills/tools/engines, ground truth outside the model, and gate expensive LLM calls behind cheap logic.
3 min · 582 wordsagent-assisted
Casey Newton’s hands-on take on OpenAI’s Dots agents at DevDay: capable coworking inside ChatGPT, paid-only positioning versus Meta Muse, and the trust/safety tradeoffs of always-on agents.
9 min · 2,024 words
Kev Quirk finally leaves Firefox after Mozilla’s AI push, tries Vivaldi, and lands on Brave—covering extensions, sync, and why privacy-default browsing finally stuck.
2 min · 528 words
Where Did Your Day Go? Octomind 0.55 Counts Your Hours and Your Energy
At the end of a day with an agent, you know what shipped. What you usually don't know is what it cost you. How many hours went to each client or project? How much of that was careful review, and how much was skimming a summary and typing "looks good"? How much focus do you have left for the afternoon? Guessing doesn't work here. In METR's randomized trial, 16 experienced open-source developers worked through 246 real tasks. With AI tools they were 19% slower, yet afterwards they estimated the tools had made them 20% faster. When agents do the typing, your own sense of…
15 min · 3,472 words
Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to avoid future drama and have a position against AI. However, although I was not using AI for my FOSS contributions, I kept using it at work. In my workplace, as well as in many of my developer friends’,…
10 min · 2,190 words
Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Microsoft Excel Insiders Beta adds lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, plus HAS/HASANY/HASALL/FLATTEN, so related values can live in one cell without losing filtering and calculation.
2 min · 504 words
Human labour is largely invisible to AI
Lennard Berger argues that AI models look strong on evals yet lag in economic impact because much real work depends on invisible human labour—context, coordination, and judgment that benchmarks miss.
7 min · 1,588 words
Meet Compass: Wealthsimple’s AI Teammate
Wealthsimple’s engineering team introduces Compass, an AI teammate that lives in Slack—what it does today, how they built it, and how it is becoming a fast friend for the company.
4 min · 846 words
Michael Heap on why leaders asking for “reasonable explanations” can stall change: good stories aren’t fixes, process theater replaces outcomes, and trust depends on asking the right question instead of drowning in details.
4 min · 845 words
Flavio Copes explains Ponytail, a plugin that stops coding agents from over-engineering: how it works, how to install it in ChatGPT, Codex, and Claude Code, intensity settings, and a practical workflow for keeping agent-built features small.
10 min · 2,212 words
The darker side of being a doctor
Surgeon Dr Eric Levi writes about the hidden costs of medical training and practice—burnout, identity fusion with the role, and the quieter mental-health strains that resilience culture often papers over.
8 min · 1,797 words
Last week I wrote about using AI to edit my videos. My first try was five paragraphs describing WHAT I wanted and HOW I wanted it done. I expected it to one-shot the rest. A lot of people like to talk about one-shotting a task with AI.
2 min · 435 words
Geocodio explains how a two-person company moved from bash scripts to maintainable internal apps, the system that keeps those tools from rotting, and where they draw the line between building and buying.
10 min · 2,238 words
Creating and Using Code Snippets in Xcode
A practical tutorial on Xcode code snippets—creating reusable Swift/SwiftUI templates with placeholders, completion shortcuts, and tips for organizing snippets you type repeatedly.
9 min · 1,961 words
Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026
Unlisted finds 28.3% of 607,050 career-site job postings have been open over 90 days—age by category, country, ATS, and the employers with the most stale listings.
7 min · 1,617 words
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Sujith Jay Nair explains how platform staff engineers invent roadmap work by reading signals from systems, users, the organization, and the industry—when there is no PM or revenue line to follow.
8 min · 1,756 words
Waymo announces a Bay Area transit rewards program that pays Waymo Cash when riders connect autonomous trips with public transit using tap-to-pay Visa cards, starting with employees before a public rollout.
2 min · 562 words
Managing the Hidden Overhead of AI Software Engineering
Jessica Doering on verification debt: AI coding tools move the bottleneck from typing to review, why opening another agent terminal feels productive, and habits that spend reclaimed time on specs, docs, and understanding.
3 min · 725 words