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Engineering, products, and what holds up in production.
Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.
📰 Publishers Found A Way To Fight Google AI Overviews. It's Disgusting. I Love It
Publishers found a legal weapon against Google AI Overviews. The Professional Publishers Association created licence terms that require payment for AI scraping. Now any publisher can invoice scrapers.
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🤖 Fable May Be The Worst Coding AI And It Got Banned By USA
Anthropic's Fable from the Mythos line costs twice as much as Opus and got banned by the USA for non-citizens. Is the most expensive coding AI worth the hype, or are cheaper models doing the same job?
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🚫 r/programming Bans AI and LLM Topics; The Community Has Spoken
The largest programming subreddit banned AI content after months of meta-discussions drowning out actual code talk. Only deeply technical implementation discussions survive the purge.
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🏴☠️ We Shouldn't Follow Any Google Advice Regarding the Open Web in 2026
Google's deal with publishers is dead. AI Overviews scrape your content and sell ads next to it. In 2026, following Google's SEO advice means helping them steal from you more efficiently. Here's why creators should reconsider everything Google told us.
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🧠 The 3 Prompts That Changed How I Ship Code (After 15 Years of Engineering)
Three simple prompts transformed how I work with AI on production code. After months of trial and error, I found phrases that solve real problems: miscommunication, hallucinations, and buggy output.
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😱 Why Everyone Is Afraid Of SubQ
SubQ promises 52x faster AI inference and 12M token context windows. While everyone writes about AI, this announcement went by in silence. Here's what they're cooking and why it matters for developers.
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🦊 Is It True Anthropic Mythos Found 271 Vulnerabilities In Firefox?
Media claims Anthropic Mythos found 271 Firefox vulnerabilities. I analyzed the actual bug reports and tested which AI models could detect them. The real story is about Mozilla's workflow, not AI capabilities.
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💰 10 Methods To Save Money On Agentic Engineering - From $5 to $0.17 Per Request
AI coding costs are spiraling out of control. I spent months testing and optimizing my workflows, cutting costs from $5 to $0.17 per request - a 97% reduction. Here are the 10 methods that made it possible.
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💰 How Aider Can Lower Your AI Bills From $5 to $0.17 Per Request
I discovered Cursor was burning $5 per request due to excessive cache reads. After switching to Aider for specific workflows, I cut that to $0.17 - a 97% reduction that scales to thousands of dollars monthly.
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🔒 Need AI Model? Chrome Downloaded It For You Already
Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model on your device without asking for consent. Learn what this means for privacy, security, and how to monitor what apps are doing on your system.
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