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Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner
January 14, 2026
Every year, I spend some time introducing students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets. I definitely don’t go into great depth; I usually only have one class for this. But I try to...
Read MoreBlock red-teamed its own AI agent to run an infostealer • The Register
January 14, 2026
“Being CISO is very much about being okay with ambiguity and being uncomfortable in situations,” Nettesheim said. “We are balancing risk constantly, and having to make trade off R...
Read More“AI” is bad UX
January 13, 2026
This is in many ways a worst case scenario for user experience. An application where clicking “save” deletes your files. An icon where clicking and dragging it makes thousands of copies. A...
Read MoreAttention? Attention!
January 13, 2026
Attention is, to some extent, motivated by how we pay visual attention to different regions of an image or correlate words in one sentence. Take the picture of a Shiba Inu in Fig. 1 as an example. Hum...
Read MoreGetting started with Claude for software development
January 13, 2026
2025 was an interesting year in many ways. One way in which it was interesting for me is that I went from an AI hater to a pretty big user. And so I’ve had a few requests for a “using Claude” gu...
Read MoreOrigin Story: A Tale of Two Ralphs
January 13, 2026
Origin Story: A Tale of Two Ralphs To understand the “Ralph” tool is to understand a new approach toward improving autonomous AI coding performance — one that relies on brute force, fail...
Read MoreLLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends
January 13, 2026
In 2023, saying that LLMs write garbage code was entirely correct. For most of 2024 that stayed true. In 2025 that changed, but you could be forgiven for continuing to hold out. In 2026 the quality of...
Read MoreDon’t fall into the anti-AI hype –
January 12, 2026
Anyway, back to programming. I have a single suggestion for you, my friend. Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by refusing what is happening right now...
Read MoreBelieve the Checkbook
January 12, 2026
Anthropic’s AI agent was the most prolific code contributor to Bun’s GitHub repository, submitting more merged pull requests than any human developer. Then Anthropic paid millions to acquire the h...
Read MoreOpening and Closing Dialogs Without JavaScript Using HTML Invoker Commands
January 12, 2026
The native <dialog> element was a huge step forward for web developers. It gave us a standardized way to create modal dialogs with built-in backdrop handling, focus management, and keyboard inte...
Read MoreThe rise of industrial software
January 9, 2026
Traditionally, software has been expensive to produce, with expense driven largely by the labour costs of a highly skilled and specialised workforce. This workforce has also constituted a bottleneck f...
Read Moredavidbau.com Vibe Coding
December 22, 2025
Two Kinds of Vibe Coding There are two categories of vibe coding. One is when you delegate little tasks to a coding LM while keeping yourself as the human “real programmer” fully informed ...
Read MoreBelieve the Checkbook
December 22, 2025
Everyone’s heard the line: “AI will write all the code; engineering as you know it is finished.”Boards repeat it. CFOs love it. Some CTOs quietly use it to justify hiring freezes and stalled pro...
Read MoreYour job is to deliver code you have proven to work
December 19, 2025
Source: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work...
Read MoreWhat happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work
December 18, 2025
That judgment is the job of a senior engineer. As far as I can tell, nobody is replacing that job with a coding agent anytime soon. Or if they are, they’re not talking about it publicly. I think it...
Read MoreHow I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
December 18, 2025
Writing a full HTML5 parser is not a short one-shot problem. I have been working on this project for a couple of months on off-hours.Tooling: I used plain VS Code with Github Copilot in Agent mode. I ...
Read MoreThe Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
December 17, 2025
Junior developer—obsolete accessory or valuable investment? How does the genie change the analysis? Folks are taking knee-jerk action around the advent of AI—slowing hiring, firing all the juniors...
Read MoreUX Is Your Moat (And You’re Ignoring It) – Eleganthack
December 17, 2025
If you’re building an AI product, your interface isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s your primary competitive advantage. Here’s what that means in practice: Make the first five minutes seamless. Users ...
Read MoreHow to Run a 90-Minute AI Design Sprint (with prompts)
December 16, 2025
Most teams still run ideation sessions with a whiteboard, a problem statement, and a flurry of post-its. To be honest, I’ve always loved a good Design sprint, especially in person and I hope those d...
Read MoreWhat I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
December 15, 2025
I’ve also built a bunch of agents over the years, of various complexity. For example, Sitegeist, my little browser-use agent, is essentially a coding agent that lives inside the browser. In all ...
Read MoreUseful patterns for building HTML tools
December 15, 2025
I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. ...
Read MoreThe /llms.txt file – llms-txt
December 15, 2025
We propose adding a /llms.txt markdown file to websites to provide LLM-friendly content. This file offers brief background information, guidance, and links to detailed markdown files.llms.txt markdown...
Read MoreAI and variables: Building more accessible design systems faster
December 15, 2025
When people talk about AI in design, they often picture flashy visuals or generative art. But my own lightbulb moment happened at a less glamorous place: in an effort to solve this accessibility chall...
Read MoreA ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix
December 15, 2025
In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that “the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours”.In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that “strea...
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