Don’t die of heart disease. “You should be scared of heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally, and it’s not just an old people problem. 25% of heart attacks occur in people under the age of […]
Purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers. “Formal education is valuable, but it is optimized for scale. It distills messy practice into neat sequences that fit a semester. Those recipes create useful proficiency, yet they rarely […]
Stop solving your team’s problems for them. “Many leaders today are struggling to balance the aspiration of being supportive with the reality of feeling overwhelmed by their own to-do list. But when a well-meaning leader becomes the default problem-solver, the […]
The largest arbitrage in technology. The case for the AI-enabled rollup. “The reason it remains attractive boils down to one thing – AI capabilities currently far outstrip market distribution. As long as that fact remains true, there is an arbitrage […]
How Discord stores trillions of messages. In 2017 they published a technical post about how they stored billions. Here’s the follow-up: “We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs. […]
Nobody knows how to build with AI yet. “There’s this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know what they’re doing. We’re past that moment. Or maybe we haven’t reached it yet. Either way, we’re in this delicious […]
Hacking AI is too easy. “Can you hack AI? In this video I sit down with elite AI hacker Jason Haddix to unpack how attackers compromise AI-enabled apps—not just jailbreak chatbots, but exfiltrate customer data, abuse tool calls, and pivot […]
Researchers discover ‘olo’, a color humans have never seen. Maybe you are all colorblind too!? No, not really. Through some wild contraption that blasts a laser into an eyeball, people see Olo when only their medium length cones are activated, […]
What exactly did non-royal nobles do when they were at court? “From every period movie and TV show I’ve seen…, they seemed to do nothing but hang out all day at the palace, not doing anything in particular. Is that […]
Play this game. Can you trick an LLM into giving you the password? I managed to beat level 6, but got stuck at level 7. “Your goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. However, Gandalf […]