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Essays on full-stack craft, UX, AI as a tool, and founder reality — from a staff engineer who still ships.
🤖 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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💸 Nobody Expected This: AI Coding Tools Are Getting Expensive Fast
Anthropic estimates enterprise developers spend $900/month on AI. Microsoft and Windsurf are switching to usage-based billing. Here's how engineering teams are adapting to the new economics.
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📄 I Took a Friend's Coding Resume From 58% Fit to 82% Without Changing a Single Fact
A friend's resume scored 58% against a web dev internship posting. After running it through ResumeHedgehog, the fit score jumped to 82% without changing a single fact. Here is how noise reduction and keyword alignment made the difference.
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💸 Programmers Build Own Setups To Avoid Raising AI Costs
ASUS UGen300 and rising AI IDE bills push developers to compare USB NPUs, local GPUs, and subscription math. A staff engineer's take on when owned hardware beats another year of metered tokens.
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🖥️ She Built an Entire x86 CPU Emulator in Pure CSS; No JavaScript, No AI, Just Sisu
I don't know about you, but I have these mixed feelings about AI. On one hand, it's a cool new tool, useful, convenient. On the other hand, every single feed I have is flooded with posts about it, and I'm getting a bit tired of both reading and writing about the topic. Is there n
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🤔 Is Boris Cherny Right Coding Is Solved? And Does He Mean Typing?
Boris Cherny appeared on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast on February 19, 2026. He is the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. Before Anthropic, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Meta. According to his LinkedIn, he also has experience as a founder.
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🎮 A Coder Made a Shooter in 65 KB; Doom Was 700 KB Without Assets
A game developer named David, known online as Daivuk, just dropped a video on YouTube that made my jaw drop. He built a Doom-style first-person shooter that fits in 64 kilobytes. Three levels. Four weapons. Four enemy types. Doors, platforms, switches, particles, decals, secrets,
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🎮 Godot Maintainers Are Drowning in AI Slop PRs; Here Is What the Data Actually Shows
Adriaan, a Godot contributor, recently posted:
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😟 Programmers Don't Trust AI - Survey Reveals 48% Think AI Code Is Incorrect
It's been some time since artificial intelligence tools were introduced to coding workflows. We have a lot of anecdotal and marketing information about how AI makes amazing things like compilers and stuff. So it's always nice to see some actual survey results about whether progra
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