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- 10-03Saturday, October 3, 20269 storiesAgentic AI systems meet real-world consequences, while underlying compute infrastructure still needs correctness fixes and faster hardware-fault recovery.
- 10-02Friday, October 2, 20269 storiesEdition spans pragmatic systems engineering—from compiler speedups and Git migration trade-offs to applying out-of-order execution and determinism guarantees to LLM tool pipelines. Several pieces reconnect classical computer science ideas to current problems.
- 10-01Thursday, October 1, 20267 storiesSystems-level engineering shows up across the edition: merge-base and packfile work in Git, a 30-year-old C++ front-end going public, a megakernel reframing MoE training, and what formal methods can and can't catch.
- 09-30Wednesday, September 30, 20266 storiesTwo systems-flavored papers anchor the edition - TLA+ refinement for a streaming protocol, and MPKs enabling cheap preemptible VMs - alongside LLM systems engineering and new policy pressure on developer infrastructure.
- 09-29Tuesday, September 29, 20269 storiesThree threads run through these stories: the memory bandwidth wall behind long-context LLM inference, tiny classification models replacing general LLMs in pipelines, and latency cuts from synthesis and extreme quantization.
- 09-28Monday, September 28, 20269 storiesExactly-once delivery resurfaces in both the stream processing and LLM agent papers, while the rest weighs practical engineering tradeoffs from S3's aging API to supervised LM programs on the BEAM.
- 09-27Sunday, September 27, 20268 storiesAll threads converge on one question: how do real systems safely incorporate LLM agents without inheriting their architectural mistakes, runaway costs, or unbounded behavior.
- 09-26Saturday, September 26, 202610 storiesA common thread across several stories is encoding safety into foundations: type systems that rule out invalid states, consensus rules that keep moving under bad conditions, and linters that catch risky database changes before they ship.
- 09-25Friday, September 25, 202614 stories
- 09-24Thursday, September 24, 202613 stories
- 09-23Wednesday, September 23, 202617 stories
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- 09-21Monday, September 21, 202618 stories
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- 09-17Thursday, September 17, 202614 stories
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- 09-08Tuesday, September 8, 202618 stories
- 09-06Sunday, September 6, 20269 stories
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- 09-04Friday, September 4, 202615 stories
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- 08-28Friday, August 28, 202618 stories
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- 08-23Sunday, August 23, 202618 stories
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- 08-17Monday, August 17, 202614 stories
- 08-16Sunday, August 16, 202618 stories
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