4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1199+ words) "If you write everything in the same code base, in the same language, it's like, inevitably, you're going to be a little bit sloppy. And you're going to intertwine things more than you should." The internal culture is built around…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (322+ words) Microsoft (MS) has automated the review process for its Edge Add-ons Store to handle a surge in browser extension submissions driven by the spread of AI-assisted coding. The decision reflects the company's assessment that the existing review pipeline has reached…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (463+ words) Run-time tools serve end users. A customer asking a production chatbot to cancel an order or change a flight cannot tolerate hallucinated SQL, cannot tolerate unbounded data access, and certainly cannot tolerate a table deletion. Yet the industry default, Kakkar…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (976+ words) "Generally speaking, I treat my Macs as one or two tasks at a time and I treat my Linux boxes as effectively unlimited tasks at a time because I've never managed to saturate unless the tasks are running things that…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (694+ words) "Local dev in our opinion is dead." Slack makes a definitive statement: mandatory code review before merging to main is dead at AMP, and has been "ever since we started working on AMP." This is not reckless — it is enabled…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (759+ words) In an interview, Mann revealed that the Labs team evaluates its product prototypes roughly every two weeks on a "persist or pivot" basis. Ideas lacking promise are terminated or merged into other projects; products that genuinely gain traction "graduate" from…...