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May 10 · 8 min read · The Builder Who Builds Too Fast Imagine you're hiring a contractor to build your house. You get three bids. Two of them say six months. One says three weeks. Your gut reaction to the three-week bid? Something's wrong. They must be cutting corners. Th...
Join discussionMay 10 · 10 min read · Two Clients, One Weekend, Zero Excuses Agentive context engineering turned what should have been a month-long grind into a three-day sprint. A few weeks ago, two people needed websites at the same time. One was an e-commerce site for a pickleball bra...
Join discussionMay 8 · 6 min read · Rubber Duck Now Works With Any Model Family On May 7, GitHub expanded Rubber Duck — the cross-family review agent I covered when it launched last month — to work bidirectionally across model families. When Rubber Duck first shipped in experimental mo...
Join discussionMay 8 · 43 min read · DevOps Has a New Branch — And It's Not Optional You know CI. You know CD. Now there's a new acronym muscling its way into the DevOps lexicon: CAI — Continuous AI. And if you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or platform engineer who hasn't started paying at...
Join discussionMay 6 · 4 min read · The Frontier Model Arrives OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, and this isn't just another incremental model release. GPT-5.5 represents a clear evolution from "smart chatbot" to "production agent"—built specifically for...
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