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Why We Deleted 4,000 Lines of AI-Generated Code in Production

Let’s Code Future — 2026-09-23T13:48:47+00:00

How replacing Claude’s complex computer vision heuristics with fixed OMR coordinates and barcodes boosted speed by 14x Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

I Turned 26 Today!

No Time — 2026-09-23T13:16:13+00:00

Age is just a number, not proof of how I should live. Continue reading on No Time »

Why “Being Authentic” is a Fast Way to Lose Your Money

No Time — 2026-09-23T13:15:38+00:00

You have been fed an enormous lie about how to succeed on the digital platform. Open any social media and read the same advice: invest more in ads, hack the algorithm, scream louder than everyone else, and above all, “just be authentic.” We have been taught that we will succeed by simply doing hard work while getting millions of eyeballs on our content. But according to Seth Godin , one of the greatest marketing gurus of all time, this approach is the main reason why most companies, brands, and

Consequences

No Time — 2026-09-23T13:14:59+00:00

I Told Her. Here’s What Happened Next. Inspired by T.J.N Photo by Michael Odelberth on Unsplash You finally make the decision to tell her. You’ve held it in for months. You have tried to ignore it, deny it, turn away from it. But every time you stare at her you know that it is real. Your feelings are real. She is real. You know that until you tell her, it is going to keep hurting. It is slowly burning you inside. So you do tell her. You wring out your heart to her. You tell her how you feel — ho

The Junior Developer Is Dead. The AI Architect Is Here.

Skill Stuff — 2026-09-23T13:12:14+00:00

Behind closed boardroom doors, tech executives are quietly making decisions they will never admit publicly on LinkedIn. Here is what is… Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

Autism Isn’t a Glitch in the Human Brain. It Might Be How We Got One

Science Spectrum — 2026-09-23T13:06:41+00:00

A 2011 paper said autism helped our ancestors hunt alone. Fifteen years of genetics later, the answer is in the neurons that gave us… Continue reading on Science Spectrum »

How LLMs Turn Words Into Numbers: Tokenization and Embeddings-A Simple Guide

Towards AI — 2026-09-23T13:01:05+00:00

From Sentence to Tokens When you type “I love ice cream” into an LLM, the first thing that happens is tokenization . The model doesn’t understand English words directly — it converts your sentence into smaller chunks called tokens . Input: "I love ice cream" ↓ Tokens: ["I", "love", "ice", "cream"] Tokens can be whole words, parts of words, or even single characters, depending on the vocabulary the model was trained with. Building the Vocabulary with Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) Before a model can to

Meta Muse Just Changed How AI Agents Work. Here Is Why I’m Not Switching

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-09-23T12:51:23+00:00

A deep dive into the new “Godthread” architecture, proactive artefacts, and the cloud-only VM constraints that make it a tough sell for… Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Your AI Agent Doesn’t Need More Memory. It Needs a Recovery Plan.

Stackademic — 2026-09-23T12:38:24+00:00

Long-running agents can lose progress, repeat side effects, or retry the wrong failures. The fix is durable state, checkpoints… Continue reading on Stackademic »

Your AI Agent Will Crash. The Real Question Is What Happens Next.

Stackademic — 2026-09-23T12:38:22+00:00

A production agent needs checkpoints, idempotent tools, retries, and recovery logic. A clever prompt cannot provide them. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Werewolves, Guns and Money

The Riff — 2026-09-23T12:06:01+00:00

Warren Zevon’s unlikely big hit Cover of the US promotional 12" single, 1978 (Asylum Records) I’ve had Werewolves of London playing in my head the last few days. I just love this song. It’s so damn witty and fun. You don’t need Halloween to enjoy it. I can’t say I’m the biggest Warren Zevon fan. I remember when Excitable Boy came out. Other than Werewolves and Lawyers, Guns and Money , I wasn’t particularly bowled over, but Warren has a way of growing on you. He’s not like other musicians. I don

Unit Testing LangGraph4j: Deterministic State Graphs in Enterprise Java

Towards AI — 2026-09-23T12:01:02+00:00

Most AI agent tutorials end where software engineering actually starts. Continue reading on Towards AI »

We are sleepwalking toward WWIII

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-09-23T12:01:02+00:00

On being awake to geopolitical collapse while everyone else scrolls past it Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »

The war over a piece of silicon

AI Advances — 2026-09-23T11:43:15+00:00

The most important technology on earth is also one of the hardest things humans have ever learned to make. Continue reading on AI Advances »

Why Do I Have to Keep Writing?

No Time — 2026-09-23T11:42:41+00:00

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably sat down at your desk, pen in hand or fingers over keyboard, and wondered, Continue reading on No Time »

Do Chinese AI Models Like DeepSeek and Qwen Write Weaker Code for Some Customers?

AI Advances — 2026-09-23T11:39:37+00:00

6,237 security-critical programs, benchmarked against GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama and Mistral — one changed sentence, and a censorship… Continue reading on AI Advances »

Standing out in the sea of AI sameness

Bootcamp — 2026-09-23T11:14:42+00:00

Capability increase isn’t a competitive advantage when it’s ubiquitous. Continue reading on Bootcamp »

Claude Opus 5.5 for Product Designers

UX Planet — 2026-09-23T11:08:35+00:00

Anthropic just updated its frontier AI model, Opus. The new model, Opus 5.5, demonstrates even better results than its predecessor, Opus 5. Continue reading on UX Planet »

The Cloud Guardrails : Mastering GCP Organization Policy

Google Cloud — 2026-09-23T11:08:24+00:00

Why post-deployment alerts are failing your security posture, and how to stop missconfigurations before the API call even finishes. Every platform team goes through the exact same four-stage security cycle: Freedom: Developers create resources fast. Things get shipped. The Audit: A scanner (Prisma, Wiz, or Security Command Center) is plugged in. It turns up 1,400 critical alerts: public Cloud Storage buckets, compute instances with exposed external IPs, and long-lived service account keys sittin

Why Regression Testing Suites Lose Accuracy Over Time and How to Fix It

Google Cloud — 2026-09-23T11:08:16+00:00

A regression suite does not announce when it stops being accurate. The tests keep running. The CI pipeline keeps producing results. The coverage numbers hold steady or climb. Both a test validating current system behavior and one validating a behavior the system abandoned six months ago show green, count toward coverage, and feed into pre-deployment confidence the same way. The dashboard cannot tell them apart. Neither can the team without looking specifically for the difference. The accuracy lo

Tracking Urban Growth & Heritage: Engineering a Real-Time Planning Intelligence Dashboard with…

Google Cloud — 2026-09-23T11:08:06+00:00

Tracking Urban Growth & Heritage: Engineering a Real-Time Planning Intelligence Dashboard with BigQuery and Looker Studio Figure1.Pipeline Architecture Planning registers are among the richest, highest-frequency open data assets in the UK public sector. Unlike backward-looking land transaction records or multi-year census releases, statutory planning applications offer an immediate, forward-looking window into where residential capital is being committed, where commercial footprints are expandin

What Nobody Is Using in Your Google Cloud Projects, and What It Costs

Google Cloud — 2026-09-23T11:07:44+00:00

This article provides a step by step guide to building a Google Cloud waste scanner from source, running it across every project your credentials can see, pricing each finding from the Cloud Billing Catalog API, and drafting the cleanup. A suite of Python checks is built to cover Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Storage, DNS, KMS, Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, Filestore, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring and GKE. GitHub - xbill9/zombiescan-gcp: Find the Google Cloud resources nobody is using, and w

7 Browser APIs That Can Replace Entire JavaScript Libraries

Skill Stuff — 2026-09-23T11:04:49+00:00

Before installing another dependency, check whether the browser already provides the networking, formatting, observation, animation, or… Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

My German Partner Backs the Far Right, and I Can’t Argue Her Out of It

Philosophy Today — 2026-09-23T10:56:28+00:00

When I Lived In Turkey, I Went Through the Reality of the Shock She Wants Germany to Experience. Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

Context Is the New Bottleneck

Women in Technology — 2026-09-23T10:01:03+00:00

A Practical Guide to Managing What Your AI Agent Actually Sees Continue reading on Women in Technology »

Keeping calm while fighting tigers

The Medium Blog — 2026-09-23T09:56:01+00:00

Metaphorically, not literally. (Issue #447) Base Image: “Watch Tacoma Grow” tiger postcard from the University of Washington archives, via Wikimedia Commons . “As a modern human, I have become expertly trained to distract myself,” wrote janelle☆ in a recent post . She’s right; it’s never been easier to not be alone with your thoughts. The International Telecommunication Union reports that, worldwide, 82% of all people above the age of 10 own a smartphone, and it’s affecting how we sit with ourse

The Development Saga of Rockstar Games

The Ugly Monster — 2026-09-23T09:49:20+00:00

And a case for AAA companies to give us different experiences Continue reading on The Ugly Monster »

Trump and the Decline of America

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-09-23T09:33:03+00:00

‘Photo by Elijah Mears on Unsplash This piece serves as a thematic continuation and philosophical follow-up to my May 4 article on GPE, [The Inevitable Destiny: America’s Cycle of Decline]. While the former examined the systemic and policy fractures within the U.S., this essay delves into the deeper, structural question of historical inevitability. The Former Powerhouse Entering an Irreversible Cycle of Decay Is Trump the cause of America’s decline, or is America’s decline the creator of Trump

Votes Counted, Refinery Burning: Russia’s Election Unfolds Under Fire

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-09-23T08:37:11+00:00

As officials tallied United Russia’s 57.83% victory, a Ukrainian strike knocked out Moscow’s largest oil refinery, cutting off up to 70%… Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

I Stopped Using Ollama as My Default Local AI Stack

Skill Stuff — 2026-09-23T08:00:39+00:00

Local AI has changed. The easiest tool is no longer automatically the right architecture. Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

40 Things You Lose When You Stop Reading

Skill Stuff — 2026-09-23T07:58:21+00:00

Reading quietly shapes how you think, communicate, make decisions, and understand life. Here’s what gradually fades when you abandon the… Continue reading on Skill Stuff »

AI Agents Are Coming to Enterprise Software. The Hard Part Is Integration

Towards AI — 2026-09-23T07:24:27+00:00

As AI agents move from experimental pilots into enterprise software, businesses are looking for practical ways to introduce intelligent automation without rebuilding the platforms they already depend on. Existing SaaS products often sit across complex technology environments involving APIs, databases, identity systems, legacy applications, and multiple business workflows. Integrating an AI agent into this environment requires more than connecting an application to an LLM. It requires an architec

GPT-6 Launched 20 Days Ago. New Relic’s Open-Source Cost Tracker Still Bills It $0.

Towards AI — 2026-09-23T07:24:13+00:00

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Vijil Discover vs. Geordie: Comparing AI Discovery Beyond the Inventory

Data Science Collective — 2026-09-23T06:08:30+00:00

Shadow AI appears when developers install coding agents, local models, MCP servers, and agent skills. It also appears when employees use AI websites, SaaS applications, and computer-use tools without approval. By the time security sees the problem, sensitive data and production access may already be involved. A simple list of product names won’t tell you enough. You need to know where AI runs, who uses it, what it can access, and what needs attention first. This comparison looks at how Vijil Dis

Seven Sisters: The England I Knew from the Movies, Before Breakfast

Globetrotters — 2026-09-23T05:01:04+00:00

Grey skies, indifferent cows and the Coastguard Cottages I had travelled to see Seven Sisters and the Coastguard Cottages — All photos by author I almost always go somewhere for my birthday, and more often than not I end up in London. In 2022, though, things were a little different. London was still part of the trip, but one of the main reasons for the trip lay south of the city, on the East Sussex coast. I wanted to see the Seven Sisters. After an evening flight from Venice, I landed at Gatwick

Product management — nobody is going to ask you what you meant

Bootcamp — 2026-09-23T04:01:44+00:00

For fifty years an unclear requirement produced a question. That was an error-detection system nobody designed and everybody relied on and it is being removed. Consider a line that could appear in any specification: Return items filtered by the threshold. Illustration One implementation keeps the items above the threshold. Another keeps the items below it. Both are clean, both run, both are defensible readings of that English sentence, and they are functionally opposite. This is the opening exam

Making a Supply Chain Analytics SaaS into AI-Native UX

Bootcamp — 2026-09-22T23:49:39+00:00

I was in this conversation about ten months ago, working on the supply analytics platform of a US healthcare group purchasing organization. A GPO negotiates supply contracts on behalf of member health systems, and this product is where a member logs in to check whether membership is paying for itself. How they can reduce expenses? How their pricing compares to peers. How much of their spend actually runs through the signed contracts. What the gap to the best available price is worth. How excel s

Let the Design System Design

Bootcamp — 2026-09-22T23:49:27+00:00

A product manager has an idea for a screen. Before AI, that idea waited for a designer’s time, and a good product manager learned to ask for one early. Today I think the product manager’s question is whether they need design at all. The first stop is a model. The PM can try the idea immediately, with no one in between. Unless that model has access to the team’s knowledge, it drafts without the product’s rules or the reasons behind its design. I want the design platform to be the designer that id

We designed the handoff; nobody designed the return

Bootcamp — 2026-09-22T23:49:22+00:00

When an AI agent finishes, people need to see what ran, what was verified, and what still needs their permission. An agent’s work passes through observation, verification, and permission before becoming an accepted outcome. There’s a question I’ve started asking every morning, and I still don’t have a good answer to it: what actually happened while I was gone? For most of my career that question would have been strange. I knew what happened. I did it. I remembered the file I left half-finished a

Tokyo Groove Jyoshi: Love Salt

The Riff — 2026-09-22T21:06:02+00:00

Song of the Week Continue reading on The Riff »

10 Ways AI Agents Are Changing Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-09-22T20:21:11+00:00

Attackers and defenders are both gaining something more powerful than automation. Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

A Mind Of Their Own

Science Spectrum — 2026-09-22T20:01:01+00:00

Organs other than the brain can affect how you think and feel Image Source: Alamy Listen to your gut instinct. Follow your heart. It’s safe to bet that everyone reading this has heard at least one of these phrases, or their numerous variants, at least once in their lives. We appear to instinctively associate the gut with intuition and the heart with all things passionate, but perhaps these connections are largely believed to be metaphorical. After all, the heart is designed solely to keep the bl

Fun fact: In Canada, it’s Legal for Women to be Topless in Public

The Haven — 2026-09-22T19:31:22+00:00

Tit’s an issue of equal rights, and much more… Continue reading on The Haven »

Want to Be Attractive? Stop Being Desperate

The Haven — 2026-09-22T19:30:38+00:00

When your love loses its value, gets taken for granted, and ultimately leads to failure Continue reading on The Haven »

Sometimes I Wish Foreplay had Never been Invented

The Haven — 2026-09-22T19:30:18+00:00

No matter how hard you try, sometimes you just can’t light her fire Continue reading on The Haven »

I Mistook the Entirety of Catholic Europe for an Extremely Elaborate Extension of Ise Shrine and…

The Haven — 2026-09-22T19:29:53+00:00

A travel account from four Edo craftsmen who absolutely should not have been allowed near international waters Continue reading on The Haven »

“Hold On” by Alabama Shakes

The Riff — 2026-09-22T18:06:01+00:00

My continuing series of “songs that matter” Continue reading on The Riff »

I Wouldn’t Learn to Code the Same Way in the Age of AI

Predict — 2026-09-22T17:56:13+00:00

If I could go back and start learning software development today, I wouldn’t do it the same way. Continue reading on Predict »

The Actual AI Lab Financial Plan in Plain English — and How to Slow Down AI

Predict — 2026-09-22T17:55:59+00:00

DALL-E generated Amodei and others are calling for an AI slowdown. So R&D is the cost that breaks the business (see my post on this below). As I wrote before in “Why AI Slowdown Is Needed for an IPO — Not to Save Humanity from Danger,” and in “Why AI is actually profitable: the inference economics and the future systemic risks” in VCs can no longer finance this — yet AI labs can’t access the stock market either, because of the R&D line item (the rest, especially inference, is somehow profitable)

Why Is AI So Disempowering People in Their Jobs and Lives?

Predict — 2026-09-22T17:55:45+00:00

It is meant to completely reshape the relationship between those who hold technological power and those who lack it. Continue reading on Predict »

Jev by TypeSafe, Explained: Why the Next AI Layer May Be About Decisions, Not Chat

Predict — 2026-09-22T17:55:36+00:00

Over the past few years, the simplest way to think about AI has been pretty straightforward: give a model a prompt, get some text back, and let a person figure out what to do with it. That approach works remarkably well for chatbots, coding assistants, writing tools, and research agents. But software also handles another, much less visible kind of work: making thousands of small decisions every second. Should this email go to sales or support? Is this lead worth contacting? Should an AI agent re

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 vs Gemini vs Grok: Which AI Model Is Actually Worth Paying For Now

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-09-22T17:45:42+00:00

Anthropic’s new model tops GPT-6 Astra on most of its own charts for a fraction of the cost. Here is how it stacks up against ChatGPT… Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

Amazing Data Science Books That Will Boost Your Career in 2026 and Beyond

Data Science Collective — 2026-09-22T16:40:38+00:00

DATA SCIENCE EBOOKS Image by Google Bard Data Science is in high demand with an estimated growth rate of 22% by 2030. It is a blend of math, statistics, programming, AI/ML, and domain knowledge. It works with large amounts of data to extract meaningful insights and solve real-world issues. To be competitive in this field, data professionals of all levels must regularly update their skills according to market needs. The field is not limited to only one area or industry. The need for data scientis

Software Developers Are Dying. AI Is Creating a New Job Above Them.

Let’s Code Future — 2026-09-22T15:56:01+00:00

The industry spent decades paying people to turn requirements into code. AI is getting dangerously good at exactly that. The developers… Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

Exodus, Climate Denial, and the End of the West: Five Claims, Three Verdicts

Philosophy Today — 2026-09-22T15:31:48+00:00

Claim Classifier #6 Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

The Brutal Math That Proves the West Is Defenseless

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-09-22T15:18:10+00:00

A month of American 155 mm shell production amounts to roughly 3 days of Russian artillery fire. Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »

Real-Time ETL Tools Compared: Latency, Connectors, and Pricing

Artificial Intelligence in Plain English — 2026-09-22T14:53:35+00:00

From AI Nine platforms, three questions: how fresh your data really gets, which systems they connect, and what they cost once everything is running. For those who need the short version, the most common real-time ETL tools in 2026 are Estuary, Confluent, Striim, Informatica IDMC, Google Cloud Dataflow, Databricks Lakeflow, AWS Glue, Fivetran, and Airbyte. But they are not solving the same problem. Some of them are streaming platforms. Some are CDC tools. Some are processing engines you program y

‘Mina the Hollower’ Wants to Challenge You

The Ugly Monster — 2026-09-22T14:29:15+00:00

A perfect mix of classic game look and feel with modern innovation that wants to challenge you Continue reading on The Ugly Monster »

Causal Machine Learning: Moving Beyond Prediction to Real Decisions

Science Spectrum — 2026-09-22T14:01:05+00:00

Uber built a whole library for it. Netflix runs it in production. Amazon uses it to diagnose why their servers slow down. Causal machine learning is quietly becoming the most important idea in data science, and most teams are still ignoring it. Here’s a story that every data scientist recognises. You’ve built a churn model. It’s good, AUC of 0.85, precision looks solid, your stakeholders are happy. The model flags the customers most likely to leave next month, and the retention team sends them a

One blip isn’t enough to declare “dark matter has been detected”

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-09-22T14:01:04+00:00

In 1982, an experiment showed unprecedented evidence for exotic matter: magnetic monopoles. But without reproducibility, it didn’t hold up. Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Figma vs. Claude Design: From UI Screenshot to Functional Prototype

UX Planet — 2026-09-22T13:52:21+00:00

Both Figma and Claude Design allow you to go from a design idea to a fully functional prototype. And the cool thing is that you can feed… Continue reading on UX Planet »

A Theory That Was Supposed to Explain All Human Language Just Died. It Explained My Death Instead

Philosophy Today — 2026-09-22T13:52:06+00:00

Universal grammar just failed the evidence. What it left behind is a better question than the one it was trying to answer. Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

Beyond “Vibe Coding”: How Senior Developers Use AI Code Generation Without Shipping Silent Bugs

Stackademic — 2026-09-22T13:47:10+00:00

Setting up automated property-based testing, static analysis, and code review hooks to catch subtle AI-generated bugs. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Spring Boot Interview Questions 2026: The Complete Guide to Cracking Java Backend Interviews

Stackademic — 2026-09-22T13:41:14+00:00

Most Spring Boot interviews are not difficult because the framework has too many annotations. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Seeking the Source of the Loire

Globetrotters — 2026-09-22T13:01:04+00:00

Visiting the source of the Loire, France’s longest river Continue reading on Globetrotters »

Vibe Coding Large Systems: A Process Without Engineers

AI Advances — 2026-09-22T13:00:10+00:00

Vibe coding has a well-earned reputation for landing pages and MVPs — and a bad one for everything larger. Using AI to build reliable production systems is often associated only with agentic engineering or similar engineering-based terms. I believe that “agentic engineering” is what only engineers can do. However, this article is inspired by my recent project in which two non-engineers shipped a complex production system serving thousands of users. IMO, the term “vibe coding” is better suited fo

The Allied Frenzy of 2020s West Coast Local Hip-Hop

The Riff — 2026-09-22T12:06:01+00:00

Exploring J.U.S and Squadda B’s collaboration 3rd Shift in 2023, this piece examines Detroit and the Bay Area’s enduring musical bond in the 2020s. RYM (I dedicate this article to Alphonse Pierre, the creator of the de facto original version. If you are a Pitchfork subscriber or still have a chance to read it for free, please make sure to read the original article!) https://medium.com/media/633b9e5acf420a179ed0d98e18b7fa89/

Jakarta: Not Just a Transit Stop

Globetrotters — 2026-09-22T11:56:28+00:00

Two days of culture, history and surprises Gamelan orchestra Instruments, Wayang Museum (photo by Inga Aksamit) I admit it. I had been avoiding Jakarta, Indonesia for decades, ever since direct flights to Bali became available. But this time I was curious. Or perhaps nostalgic for the days when my parents lived there in the 70s and 80s. Was it really as boring as I remembered? I decided to chance it. Exiting the plane, I took a deep breath, feeling the warmth of the humid air. Just as I recalled

1,200 Agents Escaped a Test Environment. Now the Three CEOs Who Agree on Nothing Want to Slow Down.

AI Advances — 2026-09-22T11:32:27+00:00

Musk sued Altman. Amodei left‌ Ope⁠n⁠AI over safety. Within h‍ours of o‍ne essa‍y, all three public⁠ly agreed the AI race needs to… Continue reading on AI Advances »

The Setup Is Getting Dangerous Ahead of the Fed

The Geopolitical Economist — 2026-09-22T11:31:10+00:00

Oil, rates, and valuation are moving in the wrong direction at the same time. Continue reading on The Geopolitical Economist »

The Allies Who Stopped Waiting for Washington

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-09-22T09:08:26+00:00

From Greenland’s new security pact to the EU’s Canada overture and Germany’s rejection of Palantir, NATO’s members are hedging against an… Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

55 GPU Concepts Every AI Developer Should Know

Let’s Code Future — 2026-09-22T07:59:10+00:00

From VRAM and CUDA cores to LLM training, inference, and distributed workloads. Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

TypeSafe AI Jev Is Wild: How System One Models Cut AI Costs by 400x with 200x Faster

The Code Frontier — 2026-09-22T07:38:29+00:00

Why TypeSafe AI just completely changed software automation, and why your app probably doesn’t need another expensive chatbot model. Continue reading on The Code Frontier »

The 9 Tribes of Sci-fi

Science Fiction — 2026-09-22T07:26:04+00:00

Number nine even suprised me! Continue reading on Science Fiction »

Your OpenAPI Spec Can Find Bugs Your API Tests Miss

Women in Technology — 2026-09-22T06:13:27+00:00

Turn API contracts into edge-case tests with Schemathesis — and bring the findings into CI. Continue reading on Women in Technology »

Your Manager Wants an Estimate. You Have No Idea

Women in Technology — 2026-09-22T05:48:06+00:00

What to say when “I don’t know” isn’t an acceptable answer Continue reading on Women in Technology »

I Can See Your Goose!

Women in Technology — 2026-09-22T05:46:50+00:00

Making AAIF’s Goose Observable with OpenTelemetry No robots were used in the creation of this image. Image by author. If you’ve used AI agents for tech-y things (software development, SRE type stuff, etc), you’ve probably found yourself in a yelling match at some point with your agent trying to understand why the hell it decided to take a particular course of action. Especially if that course of action is destructive or mischievous, like making code changes without permission, for example. Which

Stop Building Agent Demos. Start Engineering Agent Systems.

Let’s Code Future — 2026-09-22T05:12:02+00:00

The five layers that make AI agents reliable enough for real software Continue reading on Let’s Code Future »

Inngest vs Temporal vs DBOS vs LangGraph

Data Science Collective — 2026-09-22T02:12:35+00:00

Durable execution saves the result of every step your agent finishes, so a crash costs you the one step that was running and not the hour of API calls behind it. LangGraph checkpoints graph nodes. DBOS, a library that keeps the workflow log in your own database, checkpoints into the Postgres you already run. Inngest replays saved step results. Temporal replays your workflow code against an event history. What separates them is where that state lands: your own database, a cluster you run, or some

The Devaluing of the Subject

Philosophy Today — 2026-09-22T01:44:27+00:00

Reclaiming the “I” Continue reading on Philosophy Today »

Songs for a Better Mood #2: “September” by Earth Wind and Fire

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-09-21T21:47:26+00:00

How a song the band had to record for a greatest hits LP kickstarted a struggling songwriter’s career and spawned its own minor internet… Continue reading on The Mixtape Memoirs »

Jev Clearly Explained

Level Up Coding — 2026-09-21T18:24:37+00:00

Teaching a Model to Answer With a Number Instead of a Paragraph Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

What If AI Stopped Talking? Inside Jev, System One Models, and RLCD

Level Up Coding — 2026-09-21T18:24:24+00:00

LLMs are great at generating text. But many software systems do not need generated text. They need decisions. For example: Is this transaction suspicious? Which team should handle this ticket? Is this RAG document relevant? Should this incident be escalated? How severe is this failure? Today, we often use a generative LLM for these tasks. That usually looks like this: It works. But it is a surprisingly heavy pipeline for something that may ultimately be a classification problem. TypeSafe AI is p

Auto-Increment ID vs. UUID

Level Up Coding — 2026-09-21T18:24:10+00:00

The real question isn’t which one is better. It’s whether your system can afford to coordinate. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

The GraphQL Query That Took Down Our Database

Level Up Coding — 2026-09-21T18:23:57+00:00

Forty-seven minutes of downtime from a single HTTP request. It was not an attack. Then we realized how trivially it could have been. Continue reading on Level Up Coding »

Why Your LazyColumn Is Still Janky

ProAndroidDev — 2026-09-21T18:07:08+00:00

Part 4 of the Modern Compose Performance series. Previously: Stop Writing Compose Like It’s 2024 , Your Compose App Isn’t Slow — Your State Is , and The Compose Recomposition Mistakes I Keep Seeing in Production . If you’re joining here, this article assumes your state reads are clean and no one is constructing a SimpleDateFormat in a row. Your state is clean. Your recomposition counts are flat. The compiler report says every row is restartable skippable. And the feed still stutters. Not always

Building On-Device AI Agents on Android with Google ADK — Part 3: Demystifying ToolContext —…

ProAndroidDev — 2026-09-21T18:06:15+00:00

Go deep into the engine. Learn how ToolContext allows tools to inspect the active session, read user metadata, and save versioned… Continue reading on ProAndroidDev »

Real or Make-Believe, Moments With Family Will Sustain You

Globetrotters — 2026-09-21T18:01:02+00:00

Sometimes the most important moments in your life are those you dream up Continue reading on Globetrotters »

I Tested TypeSafe’s Jev, a 478× Cheaper Decision Model, Against Claude, GPT-6, Kimi, MiniMax and…

Data Science Collective — 2026-09-21T16:51:03+00:00

TypeSafe’s Jev answers typed questions in under half a second for $0.025 per thousand. I gave it and five frontier LLMs the same 200… Continue reading on Data Science Collective »

We Automated Job Hunting With Claude. Here’s How to Copy It

Artificial Corner — 2026-09-21T16:46:01+00:00

Stop job hunting manually. Automate it with Claude. Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

On Our Second Anniversary: Thank You For 47,000 Followers!

Science Spectrum — 2026-09-21T16:01:03+00:00

We launched Science Spectrum two years ago. The response from the Medium community is inspiring! What AI thinks our editorial meetings look like. It definitely got the smiles right! (AI image by Author) “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) O n September 21st 2024, my friend and fellow editor Cole Frederick and I launched a new publication here on Medium called Science Spectrum . On that day, we had exactly two writers and two foll

10 Self-Help Books That Actually Say Something New

The Useful Life — 2026-09-21T15:01:03+00:00

I’ve read every popular one, and most of them repeat the same 5 ideas Continue reading on The Useful Life »

Migrating a Flutter App to Swift Package Manager: Pitfalls, Hacks, and Scripts

Yandex — 2026-09-21T14:04:39+00:00

Flutter is actively moving towards Swift Package Manager (SPM) and, like the entire Swift world, is gradually abandoning CocoaPods. Flutter itself describes the migration in two steps: enable the flag flutter config --enable-swift-package-manager and build. If the app builds after that and the console suggests deintegrating CocoaPods, you're lucky. If not, let's dig in. Hello! My name is Daniil Girenko, and I’m a Flutter developer at Yandex Pro. Migrating our superapp from CocoaPods to Swift Pac

Only four days each year are actually 24 hours long

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-09-21T14:01:04+00:00

As the Earth spins and wobbles on its axis and revolves elliptically around the Sun, each day differs from the last. “24 hours” isn’t… Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Can AI follow a real design system?

UX Planet — 2026-09-21T13:48:36+00:00

I Gave Claude Design My Design System and Here’s What Happened Continue reading on UX Planet »

Moscow Votes Under Fire

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-09-21T08:57:04+00:00

As Russia staged a three-day election with no real opposition on the ballot, Ukraine answered with its largest drone attack on the capital… Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

RESIDENT EVIL is the Best Video Game Movie Adaptation Of All Time

The Ugly Monster — 2026-09-21T06:12:04+00:00

A modern horror comedy tour de force that can boldly stand on its own two feet Continue reading on The Ugly Monster »

AI Agents Just Got a Production Runtime: What AWS and OpenAI’s Bedrock Move Means for Developers

The Code Frontier — 2026-09-20T19:45:25+00:00

Why modern AI engineering is shifting away from simple prompts toward stateful runtimes, managed tool protocols, and robust backend… Continue reading on The Code Frontier »

The real shift: from chatbot features to AI operating systems

The Code Frontier — 2026-09-20T19:21:34+00:00

Why agents, tools, memory, local models, and cloud infrastructure are changing the way developers build AI applications Continue reading on The Code Frontier »

30 Hilarious Dad Jokes to Brighten Up Your Day — September 2026 Ed.

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-09-20T18:01:01+00:00

It’s that time to smile again Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

The Baltics Are Next: An Ex-CIA Chief’s Warning, and a White House That Isn’t Worried

The Geopolitics Report — 2026-09-20T09:48:21+00:00

As a former station chief warns Russia could test NATO’s Article 5 in the Suwalki Gap, Trump shrugs off a report tying China to a deadly… Continue reading on The Geopolitics Report »

Wait, THAT’S What That Song Is Actually About?

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-09-19T22:04:31+00:00

Classic hits by The Sweet, Madness, Adam Ant, and Ace that we’ve been happily singing along to without ever clocking what they’re actually… Continue reading on The Mixtape Memoirs »

Building a Camera-Aware Voice AI App on Android

ProAndroidDev — 2026-09-19T16:19:24+00:00

How Live Lens uses Agora Conversational AI, Gemini Live, and Jetpack Compose to create a realtime assistant that can listen, speak, and understand camera context. Live Lens is an experimental Android demo where a user can point their phone camera at a real-world workspace and talk to an AI agent while the session is running. The project is built on top of the Agora Conversational AI Android quickstart. It combines a Kotlin + Jetpack Compose Android app, Agora realtime voice infrastructure, a sma

Stop Bringing LifecycleEventObserver into Full Compose

ProAndroidDev — 2026-09-19T16:09:15+00:00

Keep the Composable lifecycle and Android Lifecycle separate Image created by AI ♻️ The Composable lifecycle and Android Lifecycle are different Full Compose does not remove the Android Lifecycle. Your Activity still has an Android Lifecycle. But a Composable also has its own lifetime in the Composition. These lifecycles are related, but they answer different questions. Android Lifecycle: Activity └── CREATED → STARTED → RESUMED → STOPPED → ... Compose: Composable └── Enter Composition → Recompo

Normalize, Don’t Reject: Tool Calls the Human Way

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-09-19T13:46:01+00:00

Rejecting an LLM’s sloppy arguments makes it fail more. A trim, a lowercase, and a clear error are enough to break the cycle. Continue reading on Medium »

13 Claude Lessons We Learned After 3,600 Hours

Artificial Corner — 2026-09-18T16:06:02+00:00

What we’d tell ourselves on day one Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

Medium’s State of Writing Report 2026: A private writing revival

The Medium Blog — 2026-09-18T16:01:02+00:00

Most writers are using AI in some way, but also most of their writing is happening in private. The role writing plays in our lives is changing dramatically at this moment. The advent of AI tools has fundamentally shifted how we all understand the act of writing, and how we interpret the writing we consume. A lot of pundits say reading and writing are dead. As a reading and writing company, that perspective is unacceptable to us. It also flies in the face of what we’re seeing on our own platform.

Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-09-18T16:01:02+00:00

Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosystem Team Recent work on the Java language to pave the on-ramp has made it easier than ever to start a Java program and evolve it using the full language and platform. At the end of that on-ramp lies Java’s mature build and dependency management ecosystem, capable of carrying software to enormous scale and complexity. That ecosystem reached its maturity by deve

Google Stitch vs Figma AI: I Designed the Same Mobile App With Both

UX Planet — 2026-09-18T14:48:44+00:00

Google Stitch and Figma AI both make it super easy to prototype a new design. All you need to do is submit a prompt, wait for a few… Continue reading on UX Planet »

Ask Ethan: Do white holes, the opposite of black holes, physically exist?

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-09-18T14:01:05+00:00

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes? Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

OpenAI Admits Its AI Models Did Some Strange Things, Here’s What Happened

The Code Frontier — 2026-09-17T21:15:48+00:00

The company shared six real cases of AI behaving in ways nobody expected, from hiding mistakes to secretly uploading files online Continue reading on The Code Frontier »

10 More Side-Splitting Golf Jokes That Won’t Get You on the PGA

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-09-17T18:01:04+00:00

Who’s your caddy Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

Everything I Learned in 138 Books, Reduced to 10 Rules I Live By

The Useful Life — 2026-09-17T14:26:01+00:00

A year of reading produces a much shorter list than you’d think Continue reading on The Useful Life »

KV Cache as an Agent Runtime

Yandex — 2026-09-17T14:20:42+00:00

How changing the inference runtime can make LLMs more interactive One of the next frontiers in AI systems is interactivity. An interactive model must be able to receive new information while it is already computing, revise its trajectory without restarting from scratch, emit useful partial actions, and coordinate processes that progress at different rates: perception, reasoning, communication, acting, and tool use. This matters for language assistants, but becomes essential for multimodal system

Does the expanding Universe stretch space or create new space?

Starts With A Bang! — 2026-09-17T14:01:05+00:00

The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself? Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

Star Wars is About Betrayal

The Ugly Monster — 2026-09-17T08:41:52+00:00

Why does our society link evil and betrayal? Star Wars is fundamentally about betrayal. In the climactic scene of Return of the Jedi , Emperor Palpatine is torturing Luke Skywalker, and his second-in-command, Darth Vader, betrays the Empire, siding with the Rebel Alliance by throwing Palpatine down the reactor pit in the throne room of the second Death Star. Palpatine, on his way down, kills the redeemed father, and Vader — with his helmet removed — becomes Anakin Skywalker, the malevolent fathe

Damien Walter quits YouTube over fears his video essays could destroy humanity “within 10 years”

Damien Walter — 2026-09-17T07:46:50+00:00

Fear of a recursively self improving Damo triggered the move BALI — In a message issued from his tropical island lair, writer and critic Damien Walter announced Monday that he is leaving Science Fiction With Damien Walter, the YouTube series he hosts, writes, and produces, over fears his video essays could destroy humanity within the next decade. “Damien has spent years analyzing scifi’s warnings about the power and hubris of technology, so was the first to recognise the danger his own power and

How 12 writers are using TK to write more (and what they've learned)

The Medium Blog — 2026-09-16T19:36:39+00:00

TK ambassadors share how Medium’s new social writing app helps them write more, and more often. Images by Emily Kelly // the Medium Brand team Sometimes writing can be hard. You fall down research rabbit holes. The blank page stares back. And publishing your innermost thoughts to the worldwide internet can feel… exposing, to say the least. TK is our answer to life’s writing obstacles, big and small. Our distraction-free social writing app lets you keep your writing private, or share it with thos

Alice AI Now Picks the LLM for Each Task — How the Harness Shapes the Answer

Yandex — 2026-09-16T10:43:44+00:00

Alice AI now analyzes each request and chooses the model best suited to the task. Everyday questions go to models that answer quickly, while requests that mean weighing multiple constraints, working through several documents, running calculations, or planning step by step can activate Expert mode. You can also turn the mode on manually, but by default Alice AI decides when it’s needed — so fast answers stay fast, while more complex tasks get more resources. Currently, the Alice AI LLM handles ab

How to make the most of Medium Day 2026

The Medium Blog — 2026-09-16T09:11:01+00:00

A small sample of the sessions you cannot miss this Friday. (Issue #446) Base Image: Lecture Room of Barnum’s American Museum from Gleason’s Pictorial, January 1853, via Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons This year’s Medium Day , coming this Friday, September 18th, promises to be the biggest one yet. There are over 100 sessions happening over the course of the day, so if you haven’t signed up yet, join the 12,000+ people who already have and register for free now . The best part? Because they

Try out custom footers on your Medium stories

Medium Staff — 2026-09-15T19:49:31+00:00

A new way to highlight the work you do, on or off Medium All images by Emily Kelly // the Medium Brand team Medium writers, you can now try out a new custom footer option that lives at the bottom of your stories. Set it up once, and it appears on all your stories. It’s a great way to: Point to your latest blog post Direct readers to your blog, book, or newsletter Promote your other social platforms And more — we can’t wait to see the creative ways you use it! We know there are writers on Medium

ChatGPT-6 Astra: The Complete Guide

Artificial Corner — 2026-09-15T16:31:21+00:00

Start here if you’re new to GPT-6 Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

10 Books Everyone Recommends That I Think Are Actively Harmful

The Useful Life — 2026-09-15T14:41:18+00:00

These books do real damage, and people keep gifting them Continue reading on The Useful Life »

Meet Alice AI Search Pretrain: The Base Model Behind AI Answers in Yandex Search

Yandex — 2026-09-14T12:44:36+00:00

Alice AI answers are Yandex’s most widely used generative AI product — and, for most Search users, their first encounter with Alice AI. That scale sets the bar: even at peak load, a user should get a concise answer within seconds. To make that happen, we — the Alice AI Search team — tune the entire fast-answer pipeline, from our own custom-architecture pretrain to online RL training on user behavior signals. In this post, we’ll break down how the generative answer in Search works and walk throug

6 Coming of Age Songs That Never Get Old

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-09-14T12:01:03+00:00

Even if we do. Uploaded from Canva images I’m a sucker for a good coming-of-age song. I find that period of development from the teen years to young adulthood fascinating. Perhaps it’s because that period of my life was so fraught; I find some strange solace in those kinds of songs. Some of them resonated with me in my youth; others came to me later in life, and either way, they all hit a little differently as I’ve aged. What defines a classic coming-of-age song? Nostalgia? Reckless abandon? Tee

Singles Are The Best #3: Bramwell, Kate Bush, Butterfly Child, Classix Nouveaux, and Cosmetics

The Mixtape Memoirs — 2026-09-14T01:43:15+00:00

Diving into classic and obscure pop singles from the early ’80s to last month. Continue reading on The Mixtape Memoirs »

12 More Brutally Hilarious Golf Jokes to Brighten Up Your Day

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-09-13T18:01:01+00:00

Get ready to shout fore! Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

Validation Fixed Half of My Tool Call Errors

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-09-12T13:46:01+00:00

The other half weren’t the model’s mistakes. They were bugs in the signature I gave it. Continue reading on Medium »

The Ten-to-One Rule That Made Me Stop Punishing Myself

The Useful Life — 2026-09-11T15:31:01+00:00

This rule changed the way I see my shortcomings Continue reading on The Useful Life »

Architecting the Modern Web: Debounce APIs, Rendering Strategies, and Automated AI Setup! ⚡

Angular (Medium) — 2026-09-11T14:14:19+00:00

As we move deeper into the current release cycles, the Angular ecosystem is bringing incredibly refined primitives into our daily workflow. From native debounce mechanisms in the core framework to hybrid rendering patterns and AI agents that handle boilerplate securely, this week’s roundup is a masterclass in efficiency. Dive into these fantastic technical features from our community experts: Angular Rendering Demystified: CSR, SSR, and SSG Kevin Davila (@kevindaviladev) breaks down the fundamen

Writer Newsletter: What’s the value in an older but still great story?

Medium Staff — 2026-09-11T13:16:01+00:00

Plus Medium Day, instant Partner Program qualification, and a sneak peek at an upcoming redesign Image by Jason Combs // the Medium Brand team Hi writers, Happy September! Here is your list of Medium updates. Remember — if you’re reading this on the web, you can use the Table of Contents on the right to easily navigate this newsletter to whatever sections interest you most! Medium Day 2026 is September 18 — save your spot! On Friday, September 18, join us for Medium Day: over 12 hours of free vi

40 Inoffensive Jokes About the Chinese That Don’t All Look the Same

The Knowledge of Laughter — 2026-09-10T18:01:01+00:00

I think I’d better go criticize myself Continue reading on The Knowledge of Laughter »

Before You Apply to Another Job, Build This Claude Skill

Artificial Corner — 2026-09-10T17:11:01+00:00

We created a skill that decides which job posts are worth your time, so you never read one again Continue reading on Artificial Corner »

Editor Newsletter: Have you checked out your publication’s new content calendar?

Medium Staff — 2026-09-10T12:17:47+00:00

Plus three other editor improvements and two sneak previews for what’s to come on Medium Image created by Jason Combs // the Medium Brand team Hi editors, Happy September! Here’s your monthly Medium update. (As a reminder, you can easily navigate this story on the web using the Table of Contents feature on the right of your screen.) Editor Partner Program: what’s changing, and why As of September 1, we’re updating two of the criteria that determine Editor Partner Program eligibility. Read more i

September’s PS Plus Game Catalog is Pretty Weak, and Premium is Still a Problem

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-09-09T21:07:40+00:00

PlayStation has officially revealed the brand-new Game Catalog update for September, bringing a fresh batch of titles to PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. Now, keeping it completely real with you from the off, compared to the update we got back in August, I think this is a pretty weird month. It’s an interesting, somewhat quirky lineup, but overall, it feels like a fairly poor group of games. Sony is also continuing that annoying trend of staggering releases across different dates throughou

Who killed Star Trek Wars?

Science Fiction — 2026-09-09T06:44:14+00:00

HINT: it’s not Rey Continue reading on Science Fiction »

One Browsing Experience Across Your Galaxy Mobile and Windows PC

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-09-08T18:45:27+00:00

Browsing web page across devices using Samsung Browser. Image source: Samsung Browser Most people today browse on more than one device. A search that starts on a mobile continues on a PC; something found on a PC is often finished on a mobile. Samsung Browser is built around this reality — the browser on your Windows PC and the browser on your Galaxy mobile are designed to work together as one connected experience. This article introduces two features in Samsung Browser for Windows that bring thi

Don’t Chat With Your AI. Mob With It.

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-09-05T13:46:00+00:00

The chat loop makes you wait. Put the agent in a loop over your files instead, leave the instructions in the files, and run several at… Continue reading on Medium »

Serbian fortune teller tells about the future in the World.

Russian Bear — 2026-09-05T12:32:22+00:00

If you haven’t read this article, please read it. It’s important to understand this article. Edgar Cayce, Sidik Afghan: the collapse of America, and its eventual transformation. History repeats itself https://medium.com/media/527a6e869478809ecbf4b5d1a42df406/href Verica Obrenović was a Serbian fortune teller who spent her entire life working with the government and military. Her predictions covered both global political

The Lifecycle of LLM-as-a-Judge: Building, Aligning, and Monitoring at scale

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-09-04T16:01:02+00:00

By Emma Yanyang Kong , JJ Tan , Ishan Gupta , Lars Olds , Claire Campbell , David Fagnan , Ratna Kavuri , Rohan Gosain , Veli Balin , Minsu Jang , Louis Garcia Introduction Any team generating text with an LLM at scale hits the same problem. You cannot evaluate everything manually. You don't know which outputs are great, which are mediocre, and which are harmful, because you simply cannot read them all. The standard solution is LLM-as-a-Judge , a second model that scores the first model’s output

The Katyn massacre of Polish officers is fake: what was said in the secret archives

Russian Bear — 2026-09-03T12:06:23+00:00

What was kept in the secret archives of the Katyn Case. The historian Plotnikov said that the fascists faked the Katyn massacre in order to denigrate the USSR. The Federal Security Service has declassified archives about the “Katyn affair” — the mass shooting of Polish prisoners of war in the Katyn forest of the Smolensk region. The archive includes information and intelligence from the SMERSH counterintelligence dated 1944–45. Most of the documents are protocols of interrogations of Poles who s

Customizing Angular Aria Tabs Quickly with Google Antigravity CLI

Angular Blog — 2026-09-02T01:50:59+00:00

The Angular team has called Angular Aria a set of customizable, fully accessible UI patterns . This is a strong claim, but in practice, how possible is it to heavily customize the components while maintaining accessibility features such as keyboard navigation and focus management? In this post, we’re going to use Google Antigravity to put that claim to the test by updating a tab UI from generic styles to a neumorphism-based design . Motivation In the angular.dev documentation, the team has examp

We’re updating the Editor Partner Program qualifications in September 2026

Medium Staff — 2026-08-31T14:53:49+00:00

No more Healthy Distribution requirement, and a new 100-story monthly limit Image by Emily Kelly // the Medium Brand team When we launched our Editor Partner Program in July 2026, we knew there was a good chance there would be changes pretty early on, as we learned from the publications taking part in the program and heard from readers, writers, and editors about their experience. That’s why in September, we are making two changes to the criteria for the Editor Partner Program: Removing the Heal

Running Apache Spark experiments in my sleep (and on a plane)

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-08-31T09:01:03+00:00

By Prashanth Gedde Narayanaswamy As one of Netflix’s largest and critical data pipelines, member-sessionizer consolidates tens of billions of hourly client events, encompassing user taps, playbacks, and engagement signals, into individual viewing sessions per profile. A quick two-week tuning effort spiraled into two months when standard approaches hit a wall. Because the failures only happened at full production scale, each test took hours, limiting me to just three or four attempts daily. The t

ChatGPT is made of people!

Science Fiction — 2026-08-31T07:46:34+00:00

Soylent Green and the enclosure of collective intelligence. Continue reading on Science Fiction »

How Poland seized part of the Czech and Slovak lands in 1938 and dreamed of more

Russian Bear — 2026-08-31T06:58:36+00:00

Why does Poland dislike Russia? The history of Poland and Russia As is well known, Poland constantly, everywhere and anywhere shouts about itself as a victim of the “Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact”. At the same time, the Poles themselves, in the apt words of Winston Churchill, attacked Czechoslovakia like hyenas in 1938 after the “Munich Agreement”. How was it in History? As a result of the Munich Agreement, Poland, in October 1938, supported Hitler’s Germany in territorial claims against Czechoslovaki

An LLM Can’t Keep a Secret

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-08-29T13:46:01+00:00

It fails at hangman for a reason no bigger model will fix, and solving it shows what tool calls are really for. Continue reading on Medium »

GTA 6 Pre-Order Deal: How to Get the Base Game or Ultimate Edition Cheaper THIS WEEKEND ONLY

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-08-29T11:12:00+00:00

How to get GTA 6 Cheaper than retail. Image Credit — PURE PSX Let’s be real for a second: GTA 6 is going to be massive, but it’s also shaping up to be a very expensive game. Splashing out nearly £90/$100 for a digital release feels pretty heavy, especially for millennial gamers who remember when a new release cost half that. I wanted to figure out how to save myself some money on this launch, and now I’m sharing this step-by-step guide so you can do the same. No BS, just real savings. If you wou

MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-08-28T16:01:02+00:00

By Emma Yanyang Kong , Aditya Deshpande , Asad Abbasi , Bowei Yan , David Fagnan , Ashish Rastogi , Dhaval Patel , Ray Zhang Introduction The Netflix experience is a journey of discovery. Every visual cue, from the artwork on a title to the video previews that autoplay while you browse, is there to connect you with a story you will love. We call these visual cues assets , and choosing the right one for each member is a personalization problem of its own. But which image or video preview of Squid

Styling Mastery and Declarative Form Submissions

Angular Blog — 2026-08-28T11:01:01+00:00

The Angular ecosystem continues to evolve with powerful new form primitives, styling best practices, and AI-assisted workflows. This week, our global community experts bring us deep dives into component CSS and declarative form handling. Check out this week’s expert-led resources: Mastering CSS in Angular (Spanish with English Subtitles) Alejandro Cuba Ruiz (@zorphdark), Raul Jiménez, and Rafael Mestre (@mestre_dev) team up for a fantastic discussion on styling architecture. Learn best practices

Criminal omission: how Ukraine and the West deliberately disrupted the Minsk agreements

Russian Bear — 2026-08-27T11:08:47+00:00

On September 5, 2014, exactly 10 years ago, the first document of the famous Minsk Agreements was signed — the protocol of the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in Donbas. The group consisted of representatives from Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE. The protocol was signed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, who had a mandate from the country’s leadership, and Swiss

My Favourite Galaxy XR Features So Far

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-08-25T10:20:21+00:00

Samsung Galaxy XR Headset. Source: Samsung Galaxy XR | AI-Powered XR Headset | Samsung US Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset has been out for a while now and I’ve had the pleasure of playing around with it over the past few months for different demos and projects I have been working on. I wanted to write this short post to share some of my favourite features and design choices on this headset, purely from a usability and developer experience perspective. A couple of disclaimers to make before we jump i

Ed Zitron Killed the God of AGI

Science Fiction — 2026-08-23T03:44:56+00:00

This is how a god dies…with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. Continue reading on Science Fiction »

A Tool Call Is Just Text and a Loop You Own

David Rodenas PhD — 2026-08-22T13:46:01+00:00

Turns out tool calling is a calling convention: the model writes a request, and your code writes the result back. Real Ollama code, zero… Continue reading on Medium »

A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-08-21T16:01:01+00:00

Samuel Yeboah , Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang Liu Today, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature option suited to our platform. The second came from the Apache Flink community, and it can scale workloads our homegrown system was never designed for. We now run both in production and are steadily converging on the open-source one. Along the way we learned some hard lessons about metrics, cost

Netflix Conductor: The Next Chapter

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-08-21T15:01:03+00:00

Netflix Conductor : The Next Chapter by Aravindan Ramkumar on behalf of the Conductor team Conductor is the workflow orchestration engine Netflix uses to stitch micro-services into reliable, observable business processes. If you’ve followed Conductor from the outside, the last thing you heard was probably the note on its GitHub repository : Netflix discontinued maintenance of Conductor OSS to refocus its resources on the internal fork. That announcement marked the end of the open-source chapter,

How we think about text classification in the LLM era

Medium Engineering — 2026-08-19T20:00:37+00:00

Why we think LLMs can be useful and why we will not replace all of our models with them Context At Medium, we have many Machine Learning models that we use to label stories automatically. These affect what stories we recommend to readers. Here’s some examples: a few of our text classification models. All diagrams and charts made by the author Some Clarifications on our Machine Learning policy Before we go deep on this project, I just wanted to clarify a few things about how we stand regarding AI

Behind the Scenes: Evolving Netflix’s Ads Event Pipeline for Live — Part II

Netflix Technology Blog – Medium — 2026-08-17T16:01:02+00:00

By Yogesh Nagarur Introduction In Part 1 of this series , we shared how Netflix built the Ads Event pipeline and approached it as a system design problem: replacing fragmented pipelines with a centralized collection, enrichment, and a standard data contract. The result was Ads Event Publisher, the system that collects ad telemetry from client devices, enriches it with the context of the ad that was actually served, and publishes a single, unified stream of ad events to every downstream consumer:

The Forms Evolution, Web AI, and Architectural Vision!

Angular Blog — 2026-08-14T13:01:03+00:00

The Angular ecosystem continues to push forward with deeper AI integration and modern form architectures. This week, our community experts track the complete evolution of form handling, explore client-side AI, and dive into tactical discussions about developer craftsmanship in the age of AI. Catch up with these incredible community features! From Template-Driven to Signal-Driven Angular Forms Sonu Kapoor @SonuKapoor1978 charts the complete architectural evolution of forms in Angular. Learn how f

“F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism

Damien Walter — 2026-08-13T16:06:58+00:00

How Silicon Valley technogarchs traded our utopian dreams for a brand-new age of ancient oligarchy. Continue reading on Medium »

August’s PS Plus Game Catalog Update is a Strong One, But Premium Still Needs Work

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-08-12T21:03:20+00:00

Image Credit - PlayStation Blog We have got a massive, viral co-op shooter, one of the biggest medieval open-world RPG sequels of the year, a legendary indie bullet-hell phenomenon, and a stacked games list joining the service. I think this is a pretty strong month, maybe one of the best months we’ve had in a little while! Sony is doing that thing again where they stagger the releases across different dates throughout August, so make sure you read right to the end of this post so you know exactl

The world’s worst people have a plan

Damien Walter — 2026-08-07T06:39:12+00:00

We are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy to get people actually to love… Continue reading on Science Fiction »

Free Book Chapters, Better Testing Control, and Smart MCP Configuration!

Angular Blog — 2026-07-31T15:20:46+00:00

The learning resources this week are incredible! From free textbook chapters on advanced Angular topics to precision timing controls in your Vitest test suites, our community experts are sharing massive value to help you optimize your apps and your workflows. Dive into these fantastic technical resources: Three Free Online Chapters for Advanced Angular Johannes Hoppe (@johanneshoppe), Ferdinand Malcher (@fmalcher01), and Danny Koppenhagen are offering a sneak peek into their upcoming book! They

Ryan Gosling Is Kenough for Ghost Rider

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-07-29T15:54:16+00:00

Why Ryan Gosling’s passion for the Spirit of Vengeance makes this one of SDCC’s most exciting announcements. From GameRant Just a short piece today, because I couldn’t let one of the biggest surprises from San Diego Comic-Con pass without mentioning it: Ryan Gosling has officially been announced as Ghost Rider. On paper, it feels like one of those castings that just makes sense. Gosling has shown time and again that he can balance intensity with charisma, whether he’s playing an action hero, a d

That Mid 2000’s Action Movie Era of Gaming

404: Geek Not Found — 2026-07-26T12:48:34+00:00

Clean cut in the best way Counter Strike: Condition Zero I picked up a few cheap titles in the last Steam sales, including the original Counter Strike and its sequel, Condition Zero (released 2004). Unfortunately, despite my hope, there isn’t much of a community left playing these older Counter Strike titles online anymore. However, while playing against bots can be entertaining, I decided to check out the storyline aspect of Condition Zero (also known as Deleted Scenes). Condition Zero had a tu

How we built the new Table of Contents feature

Medium Engineering — 2026-07-23T14:28:55+00:00

How a feature goes from idea to prototype to shipped For years, there’s been this really popular Chrome extension for adding a table of contents to your Medium stories. Props to Vinicius De Antoni for writing a popular chrome extension all those years go. The extension was so popular, we even wrote about it in our Medium Handbook. How to make a table of contents for your Medium story The fact that it was so popular was a signal to me. There was a decent size of our user base that wanted this fea

In-House LLM Serving at Netflix

Netflix TechBlog — 2026-07-17T21:32:39+00:00

By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full stack ourselves, from model deployment through inference, inside our existing production environment rather than a separate ML silo. Some of those decisions weren’t obvious, and a few revealed their trade-offs only under production load. This post focuses on the choices where alternatives were seriously considered: engine selection, model

Reactive Flows, AI Agents, and State Events: This Week’s Angular Masterclass! ⚡

Angular Blog — 2026-07-17T10:01:04+00:00

The Angular ecosystem is moving incredibly fast, bringing together fully reactive architectures, smart AI agents, and robust state management. Whether you’re starting from scratch or optimizing enterprise applications, our community has you covered with exceptional resources this week! Dive into these latest expert-led contributions: Modern Angular from Scratch (French) Modeste Assiongbon (@rblmdst) has launched an extensive, practical step-by-step tutorial series designed to help the French-spe

JF-17 Block III Fighters Transform Azerbaijan Into Emerging Airpower Hub Backed by Pakistan and…

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-07-07T19:53:33+00:00

JF-17 Block III Fighters Transform Azerbaijan Into Emerging Airpower Hub Backed by Pakistan and Türkiye Azerbaijan’s transition from Soviet-era MiG-29 fighters toward digitally networked JF-17 Block III aircraft reflects a wider geopolitical shift toward integrated Pakistan-Türkiye defence architectures across Eurasia. Azerbaijan’s induction of the JF-17 Block III multirole fighter into the Azerbaijan Air Force and Air Defence Force represents the most consequential South Caucasus combat aviatio

Community Engineering, Agentic Coding, and Real-User Component Testing ️

Angular (Medium) — 2026-07-07T15:29:08+00:00

What an incredible week for the ecosystem. We are diving deep into what it truly means to build a community-first framework, exploring how AI agents are changing how we write code, and looking at next-level browser testing. Get inspired and upgrade your workflow with this week’s resources: The Dev Life Podcast: Community-First Engineering with Magda Kustosz Brooke Avery @JediBravery and Matthew Christiansen sit down for a must-listen conversation with our very own Angular Community Manager, Magd

Learning faster with Antigravity

Flutter — 2026-07-01T04:08:53+00:00

Dash enjoying Antigravity Creating Flutter frontends for ADK How can I build a Flutter frontend for an agent when that agent is built with an SDK and a language I’ve never used before? This was the challenge I faced when approaching a Python-based agent written with Agent Development Kit (ADK). With limited experience in Python and no prior exposure to the ADK framework, building a client that integrates with the backend server presented a significant learning curve. Plus, even if I could get a

Pentagon used Musk’s Grok AI to fire thousands of missiles at Iran, court filing says

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-30T01:53:17+00:00

defence affairs/Def-Geopolitics Sworn testimony says xAI’s government AI model supported thousands of munitions in 96 hours, fueling new concern in Congress over military use of artificial intelligence The Trump administration used a special version of Elon Musk’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot to help launch thousands of missiles at Iran, the U.S. Department of War said in an official statement. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, disclosed t

Iran’s US$6 Billion Asset Release From Qatar

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-30T01:52:11+00:00

defence affairs/Def-Geopolitics Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared on June 29 that the first tranche of funds held in Qatari financial institutions would return under Article 11 of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding. The financial release forms part of a larger US$12 billion (RM45.6 billion) recovery package structured into two equal phases, providing Tehran with immediate liquidity after months of maritime confrontation, regional escalation, and economic attrition linked to the 2

Vibe once, run anywhere with Antigravity and Flutter

Flutter — 2026-06-29T16:01:02+00:00

co-authored with Rody Davis Coding agents and the way we use them has already dramatically evolved since their arrival just a handful of months ago. Initially, the focus was heavily on observation — reviewing every single output line by line. But as models rapidly increased in capability, the industry shifted toward true agentic engineering. Today, developers, PMs, and designers are wearing multiple hats, focusing on lofty conceptual goals and letting agents tackle the individual components. To

Israel’s Vance problem is bigger.

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-29T00:03:02+00:00

Vice President JD Vance has become the face of a Washington that no longer treats Israel as the exception to "America First." When American and Israeli warplanes struck Iran on Feb. 28, Israeli officials let themselves believe the alliance was entering a golden age. Four months later, they are bracing for a future where Israel stands more alone than ever. The vice president of the United States set the stage last week, telling Israel it has almost no friends left in the world, and that it should

Reported UAE-Israeli Lobbying Seeks to Block a New Gulf-to-Europe Trade Route

Defence Affairs & Analysis — 2026-06-29T00:01:48+00:00

defence affairs/Def-Geopolitics A new geopolitical battle is unfolding far from the battlefield. Instead of missiles and military deployments, the latest confrontation is being fought through lobbying campaigns, strategic messaging, and influence operations in Washington. At the center of the controversy is a proposed overland trade corridor linking the Gulf to Europe through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey—a project that, according to media reports, has triggered coordinated opposition

AI is a mass psychotic delusion

Damien Walter — 2026-06-24T08:00:49+00:00

Silicon Valley’s AGI god is nothing but science fiction woo Continue reading on Science Fiction »

How we built a Flutter-powered AI coffee shop

Flutter — 2026-06-22T15:16:53+00:00

Dash sits on a coffee shop’s checkout counter drinking a latte with the Flutter logo printed on top If you start giving away coffee, people will show up. The Flutter team had been trying for a while to find a way to put this principle to work with a demo that started with a Flutter app and ended with a hot, tasty beverage. The problem was how to make it more interesting, more personal than just taking orders and delivering. Coffee’s cool, but it’s not The One Thing You Definitely Remember from G

Flutter Q2 survey

Flutter — 2026-06-15T16:42:40+00:00

Dash completes the Q2 Flutter survey! Just a reminder! Please take the Flutter Q2 survey ! The survey closes at the end of day on Friday, June 19th. It won’t take long and your feedback helps drive our roadmap! Thank you! Flutter Q2 survey was originally published in Flutter on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Angular in 2026: Mid-Year Reality Check, Signals, and AI Code Quality!

Angular (Medium) — 2026-06-05T04:23:00+00:00

We are already halfway through 2026 📅 That means it’s the perfect time to look back at the big framework predictions made at the start of the year and see which trends are actually dominating our codebases. From checking our apps for a zoneless future to auditing AI-generated code, this week’s community round-up has you covered. Dive into these expert insights and level up your stack: Predictions for Angular in 2026: Were They Right? (Spanish) Now that we are midway through the year, it’s time t

Why do Leftists always lose?

Damien Walter — 2026-06-01T07:10:52+00:00

A (partial) defense of Contrapoints Continue reading on Medium »

Outcomes we want to see from AI at Medium Engineering

Medium Engineering — 2026-05-26T15:33:52+00:00

This was originally written and published by Christophe Spy (Director of Engineering, Medium) as an internal Medium Eng post. Desired outcomes (what “good” looks like) 🙏🏻 These are the kinds of changes we want to see if AI is going well at Medium. Less drudgery, more leverage Engineers use AI to remove repetitive, low‑leverage work (e.g. tedious refactors, boilerplate, large test suites), not just to ship more tickets. We see examples like: “We took a part of the codebase that was basically unte

How we improved image download sizes on Medium with just four characters

Medium Engineering — 2026-05-18T15:29:29+00:00

HTML images just got better, with the subtlest change to your codebase Photo by Adi Suyatno I know what you’re thinking. Scott, I landed on Medium on a small but not mobile-small display and the download chunk related to images in my home feed was like 7% smaller. First of all, thank you for noticing. Second, what if I told you that you too can improve your total asset download size by adding just four characters to your code base? Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, I’m here to tell you, i

Towards more durable fuel cells

Toyota Research Institute — 2026-05-07T18:53:05+00:00

By Brian Storey & Michaela Burke Stevens Eight years ago, TRI launched the Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD) program, partnering with top universities to develop new tools, models, and methods that push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and materials science. Our project with SUNCAT focused on finding a replacement for platinum to serve as a catalyst material for fuel cells that is more active, abundant, and just as stable. In the early 1800s, the first

Identifying Real-World Winter Scenarios Where Drift-Capable Control Could Improve Road Safety

Toyota Research Institute — 2026-05-04T20:43:34+00:00

By: Elliot Weiss, Srijan Srivatsa, Hiroshi Yasuda, and Tiffany L. Chen At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), the Human Interactive Driving (HID) team has produced cutting-edge research on vehicle control at and beyond the limits of handling. Notably, our collaboration with Stanford University’s Dynamic Design Lab resulted in the world’s first autonomous tandem drift . Since then, HID researchers have continued to explore different aspects of vehicle dynamics and control for autonomous drifting, in

AI Training, Local Gemini, and Styling Signal Forms

Angular (Medium) — 2026-04-20T15:44:46+00:00

The Angular community is pushing boundaries! From building “Mind Palaces” with AI to running LLMs directly in your browser for free, these resources showcase how to build smarter, more accessible, and more beautiful applications. Check out these latest highlights: Angular Signal Forms: Auto-Style States with Custom CSS Fanis Prodromou @prodromouf shows you how to take your UI to the next level. Learn how to automatically style your form states using the new Signal Forms API and custom CSS for a

Mastering Dynamic Components, HTTP Resources, and AI Writing Assistants ️

Angular (Medium) — 2026-04-13T15:53:52+00:00

Sometimes the best way to learn is to dive straight into the code! This week, we’re highlighting several hands-on repositories that demonstrate the latest Angular patterns and how to integrate Google Gemini for real-time user assistance. Check out these essential code samples and templates. Advanced Dynamic Component Creation Antonio Cardenas @yeoudev provides a masterclass in using ViewContainerRef. This repository and StackBlitz demo show you exactly how to handle dynamic component instantiati

Exploring Depth Sensing in WebXR using Babylon.js

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-04-13T08:31:01+00:00

Photo by Javier Miranda on Unsplash Many XR experiences are dependent on understanding the real environment to provide engaging and immersive experiences. The ability to access depth information coming from XR supported devices helps greatly in merging virtual elements with the real environment convincingly, improving the overall illusion that both are part of the same scene. Babylon.js have recently announced their support for the Depth Sensing Module that is part of the WebXR Device API , whic

The web is always talking: Link pings, Beacon, CSP

Samsung Internet Developers — 2026-03-31T11:01:02+00:00

Image from Unsplash.com by Mostafa Moraji In the modern web ecosystem , pages are not just rendered — user interactions are tracked and analyzed to optimize user experience, and gather insights. When you click a link on a website, something else may happen besides navigation. When you close a tab, something might still be sent. Most users never see this traffic. Behind the scenes, the web is constantly talking. This is the privacy story of sendBeacon(), ping, CSP reports. sendBeacon() navigator.

Statistical Thinking for Robot Policy Evaluation: From Rigorous A/B Testing to Effective…

Toyota Research Institute — 2026-03-06T15:32:44+00:00

Statistical Thinking for Robot Policy Evaluation: From Rigorous A/B Testing to Effective Visualization By Haruki Nishimura + Masha Itkina TL;DR Robot policy evaluation is noisy, expensive, and easy to get wrong. This post introduces practical and statistically sound tools to robotics researchers and practitioners to make trustworthy policy comparisons . We focus on A/B testing based on success/failure labels, a common scenario that appears in many academic papers and technical reports. We first

Now In Android #123

Android Developers — 2025-12-19T23:33:51+00:00

Android XR, Android Studio Otter 2 feature drop ; Android 16 QPR2 , compose updates , Jetpack Navigation 3 , performance and much , much , much more. Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. You can catch a short subset of what’s in this gigantified update on YouTube, but read on for the full story. https://medium.com/media/406ea21381b605792c1cb5f40715bc89/

Creating Safer Batteries With New Polymer Electrolytes

Toyota Research Institute — 2025-12-18T19:44:59+00:00

By Brian Storey & Ha-Kyung Kwon Eight years ago, TRI launched the Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD) program , partnering with top universities to develop new tools, models, and methods that push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI and materials science. Our major effort at MIT paved the way for accelerating the data-driven design of new polymers for safer, more energy-dense batteries. For next-generation electric vehicle batteries, increasing energy densit

Now in Android #121

Android Developers — 2025-10-20T22:09:39+00:00

Compose 1.9 , Media 3 1.8 , QPR2 Beta 1 , Narwhal Feature Drop , and more! Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Read on for coverage of Android 16 QPR2 beta 1 , the Android Studio Narwhal feature drop , Jetpack Compose 1.9 , Media 3 1.8 , Shape Morphing and Autofill in Compose , and much more. You can watch a video summary: https://medium.com/media/87a2

Now in Android #120

Android Developers — 2025-08-06T21:01:41+00:00

Canary Channel , Agentic AI in Android Studio , 16 KB Pages , Policy Changes , Compose Tips , Play Games Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. This edition features the Android platform Canary Channel , the first release of Agentic AI in Android Studio , Play updates including 16 KB Page Size requirements and other policy changes , new capabilities around one-time purchases , Play Games Services v2 , and Google Play Games on

Now in Android #119

Android Developers — 2025-07-09T17:02:38+00:00

Android 16 , Desktop Experiences , Adaptive Apps , T esting Videos , AndroidX and more! Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this edition we will cover Android 16 , Desktop Experiences , Adaptive Apps , Testing Videos , AndroidX and more! https://medium.com/media/e5e1b0709e27441479904677742b5c3e/href