How do you make 768 servers look like 1? The answer is sharding. I wrote about *why* it's needed and *how* it's achieved for Postgres and MySQL. It's a fun one. Link below.↗

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@iGottZ literally been done robertcorponoi.me/posts/tldoom-s…↗

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New Max Agency with @FactoryAI CTO & Co-Founder @EnoReyes. This was a particularly fun one. Since we're both building harnesses, we nerded out pretty deep. Awesome conversation on why the harness matters more than the model running underneath it, how Factory built Missions, + m…↗

This is really clever. ayush.digital/blog/the-memor…↗

You just hired a million bad employees. AI was supposed to replace human labor. It did the opposite. For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software. And AI is creating more jobs than it eliminates. --- Technology has always solved one problem by creating a…↗

Some late weekend thoughts: What can the bible tell us about vibecoding? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-…↗

We're going to be sharing more about how people use exe to build cool stuff. First up—a conservationist who turned 40 terabytes of public data into a video game: blog.exe.dev/meet-the-conse…↗

Have you ever wanted to make your own font? Well I've written something that will hopefully dissuade you from that idea. makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-t… It's free to read for the next 48hrs. Enjoy.↗

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Control the ideas, not the code: blog post here antirez.com/news/169↗

🎙️ 🚨 Latest State of Agentic Coding w/ special guest @mariozechner (Flask) is out: - Vibe-checking Fable & GLM 5.2 - @mitsuhiko teaches us RL - How harnesses smooth out model jank - Loops, surviving AI fomo, and more Also on YT & Spotify ⬇️↗

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recommended reading. terry tao vibe coding. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old…↗

New poster for our office that shows how resets of the Codex usage limits affects part of our systems. Data is beautiful.↗

recommended reading. don't get turned off by the title. this is how i use LLMs too for many tasks. jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_a…↗

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What Is a Software Factory? Earlier this year, our team at 8090 took apart the billing engine of a large entity. It was 18 million lines of COBOL and Assembly that had been accumulating since before some of our engineers were even born. Nobody fully understood it anymore but by…↗

Inside v0 Design Systems 2.0 In 1976, NASA produced [a manual](www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nasa_graphics_manual_nhb_1430-2_jan_1976.pdf). It told everyone at the agency exactly how to present the NASA name: the logotype, a sleek red wordmark everyone came to call [th…↗

We're gonna start posting episodes of AI That Works here - this one was super fun, me and @vaibcode talked about how observability is gonna have to evolve to help us grapple with a world where we're shipping more code than we can feasibly read includes shout outs to @mipsytipsy,…↗

Today we share the worldview behind our mission. Human values don't average out. Local knowledge can't be centralized. The good future has many AIs, raised in different places, shaped by the people they serve, disagreeing with each other the way we do. …↗

AI’s Biggest Winners Have the Lowest Margins The biggest winners of AI need not be the companies with the most engineers, the largest data teams, or the highest software budgets. They may be the companies with the lowest margins. The manufacturers, trucking carriers, distributo…↗

BREAKING: Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing it and its hardware chief of a coordinating trade secret theft campaign to help build its upcoming suite of AI devices.↗

Monaco ships product faster than any startup I've ever seen. Today we're sharing our coding agent infrastructure in the hope that it helps other startups move faster: monaco.com/blog/agent-dev…↗

Over the last month, I burned over $200k in tokens with gpt-5.6-sol. I built a lot. Instead of just reacting to the benchmarks, news, tweets, etc, I went a different route. This video is an overview of all the cool shit I built using the new model. Proper review coming soon™↗

Excited to share a major milestone from Mirai Labs. We've just published our latest research on state-of-the-art speculative decoding for LLM interactivity. Local LLM inference runs at batch size = 1, so speculative decoding must scale to large draft budgets. Existing factorize…↗

5.6 Sol is underhyped for general work Real work is not just a repo of markdown files and a git repo High level, high leverage work, whether you're a developer or not, spans crosses email, slack, multiple, documents, multiple tabs in my browser, and native software. It's no lo…↗

Matt Pocock just dropped an 18-minute talk at @aiDotEngineer on why software fundamentals matter more than ever in the AI age: 00:00 - Why specs-to-code produces garbage 04:36 - Grill Me: the skill that interrogates your plan before AI writes code 07:21 - Fix verbose AI with a u…↗

And you can also see our full showcase of how I built the game here: developers.openai.com/showcase/backr… This was not really a long-running project, more of a late-night idea. It truly didn't take that long; it built the vibes I wanted, and then we spent some time polishing it!↗