Deep dives into software, hardware, and the ideas reshaping how we build things.
There is a particular quality to coming home. The door closes, and something in the chest loosens — or it doesn’t. I have spent years thinking about this threshold, this moment of crossing from the world’s noise into whatever shelter we have built for ourselves. What I keep returning to is this: the rooms we …
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The Quiet Arrival of Something That Actually Matters Amazon dropped Aurora DSQL at re:Invent last December with the kind of restraint you rarely see from AWS. No massive keynote fanfare. No ten thousand engineers in an auditorium losing their minds. Just a straightforward engineering announcement: they built a distributed SQL database that does multi-region active-active …
The Numbers That Actually Matter Six months into general availability, GitHub Copilot Workspace has accumulated enough real-world telemetry to move beyond the speculation phase. The tool went from extended beta to production around Q3 of 2025, and what we’re seeing now isn’t the honeymoon period where every metric climbs because early adopters are, by definition, …
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The Setup: Why I Actually Did This I’ve been shipping code professionally for seventeen years. I’ve watched the AI coding assistant space transform from a curiosity into something that genuinely affects hiring decisions, team velocity, and the actual work we do every day. When Windsurf launched in November 2024, I made a deliberate choice: instead …
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The Structural Shift Nobody’s Talking Honestly About I’ve been watching the platform engineering movement with the kind of careful skepticism that comes from seeing too many “revolutionary” frameworks arrive with tremendous fanfare and leave quietly after eighteen months. But something different is happening now, and the numbers tell a story worth sitting with. The CNCF …
The Shift From Suggestion Engine to Autonomous Contributor I’ve been reviewing code for nearly two decades. In that time, I’ve watched the tools change but the fundamental job stay remarkably stable: read what someone wrote, think through its implications, catch the bugs they missed. Now that job is becoming something altogether different. GitHub Copilot’s Agent …
The Misconception That Killed Better Tools Before I have watched enough developer tool cycles come and go to recognize a pattern that repeats with eerie regularity. We assume that the best product wins. We assume that the most technically elegant solution consolidates the market. We assume that if something works better for 80 percent of …
The Setup: What Changed in February In February 2025, Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a capability called extended thinking mode. The mechanism is straightforward on paper: the model allocates variable compute time to reason through a problem before generating code, working with up to 128,000 thinking tokens. That’s not hyperbole. The system literally thinks …
What Willow Actually Did, and Why You Should Take It Seriously In December 2024, Google DeepMind announced the Willow quantum chip, and the internet promptly split into two camps: those who panicked and those who dismissed it as academic theater. Neither response is quite right, but understanding what Willow actually accomplished matters if you’re responsible …
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The February Release and What Actually Changed Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025 with a feature they called extended thinking mode, and if you’ve been paying attention to the AI space, you know that whenever a major lab adds significant latency to their flagship model, something genuinely different is happening under the hood. …
