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The people do not yearn for automation
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The people do not yearn for automation

The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a superb piece of commentary, and something I expect I’ll be thinking about for a long time to come. Nilay’s core idea is that people afflicted with “software brain” - who see the world as something to be automated as much as possible, and attempt to model everything in terms of information flows and…

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Introducing Reachability for PHP
Cybersécurité Programmation

Introducing Reachability for PHP

Security teams are already struggling to keep pace with the volume of vulnerability disclosures. Every week brings more CVEs, and the arrival of AI-assisted vulnerability research is only going to push that number higher. Teams that can't tell which disclosures actually matter for their application will fall behind quickly. PHP carries more of this weight than most ecosystems. Composer ranks third for CVE volume among package ecosystems, behind only Maven and npm, and PHP still runs a…

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Emergency Pedagogical Design: How Programming Instructors Are Scrambling to Adapt to GenAI
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Emergency Pedagogical Design: How Programming Instructors Are Scrambling to Adapt to GenAI

ChatGPT has been publicly available for over three years now, and generative AI is woven into the tools students use every day: web search, word processors, code editors. You might assume that by now, most programming instructors have figured out how to handle it. But when my collaborators and I went looking for computing instructors […]

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DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
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DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash. Both models are 1 million token context Mixture of Experts. Pro is 1.6T total parameters, 49B active. Flash is 284B total, 13B active. They're using the standard MIT license. I think this makes DeepSeek-V4-Pro the new largest open weights model. It's larger than Kimi…

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It's a big one
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It's a big one

This week's edition of my email newsletter (aka content from this blog delivered to your inbox) features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding in crowds, 5 blog posts, 8 links, 3 quotes and a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide. Tags: newsletter

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russellromney/honker
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russellromney/honker

russellromney/honker "Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics" for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of it. The design of this looks very solid. It lets you write Python code for queues that looks like this: import honker db = honker.open("app.db") emails = db.queue("emails") emails.enqueue({"to": "alice@example.com"}) # Consume (in a worker process) async for job in emails.claim("worker-1"): send(job.payload) job.ack() And Kafka-style…

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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems. The models themselves were not to blame, but three separate issues in the Claude Code harness caused complex but material problems which directly affected users. Anthropic's postmortem describes these in detail. This one in particular stood out to me: On March 26, we shipped a change to clear…

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The PHP Podcast 2026.04.23
Programmation Web

The PHP Podcast 2026.04.23

🎙️ PHP Podcast – April 23, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Duration: ~1 hour 10 minutes 📋 Episode Summary Eric and John return to the podcast after a few weeks away, discussing everything from Disneyland trips and bowling tournaments to EAV database nightmares, editor wars (Vim vs. PHPStorm), AI coding tools, and the […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.23 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Serving the For You feed
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Serving the For You feed

Serving the For You feed One of Bluesky's most interesting features is that anyone can run their own custom "feed" implementation and make it available to other users - effectively enabling custom algorithms that can use any mechanism they like to recommend posts. spacecowboy runs the For You Feed, used by around 72,000 people. This guest post on the AT Protocol blog explains how it works. The architecture is fascinating. The feed is served by a single Go process using SQLite on a "gaming" PC…

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