Augmented Coding: Beyond the Vibes Kent Beck distinguishes between casual AI assistance and disciplined augmented coding through his ambitious B+ Tree implementation project. The difference transforms how developers …
Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI? AI coding tools generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, but this speed creates new risks. Extreme Programming (XP) practices—designed for rapid feedback and …
Reverse Engineering Claude Code: The Secret Sauce Behind Better AI Coding Agents Claude Code outperforms other coding agents despite using similar underlying models. The difference lies in sophisticated prompt …
Introducing EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings Google introduces EmbeddingGemma, a 308 million parameter open embedding model that delivers state-of-the-art performance for on-device AI …
LogicLease: Combining Prolog and LLMs for Legal Reasoning in Rental Law Legal AI systems face a fundamental challenge: they must process natural language while applying precise logical reasoning. Most current approaches …
Attention Is All You Need: The Transformer Architecture That Revolutionized AI The 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need” introduced the Transformer architecture, fundamentally changing how we approach …
Why I Switched from Docker to Podman Docker’s dominance in containerization comes with significant security and architectural trade-offs. After years of using Docker, I made the switch to Podman and discovered a …
Checklists are hard, but still a good thing Checklists prevent costly mistakes in high-stakes environments like aviation and military operations, yet most industries underutilize them. The friction they introduce often …
So you want to parse a PDF? PDF parsing presents one of computing’s most deceptive challenges. What appears straightforward—extracting text from a document—quickly becomes a journey through format inconsistencies, …
UI vs. API vs. UAI: The Evolution of Interface Design Standards Web developers face a fundamental tension between strict and lenient interface standards. This debate, which shaped HTML’s evolution from …
