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Tutorials and explainers for quickly understanding a concept or a practice.
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Cuttlefish on Mac: Running Android’s Virtual Device Framework Natively on Apple Silicon
Meta’s Reality Labs builds products such as AI glasses . Emulators provide us with a way to scale development and testing without relying on scarce physical har
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The Body: Putting the Trust Layer Inside a Real Platform — How to Sign Off on 88,000 Lines
The third post in the series "Reining In AI: From Weekend MVP to Multi-Channel Command Console." The previous post laid out the groundwork: v2's trust layer — a
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How Graduate Students Can Use AI to Help Complete a Literature Review: My Research Writing Tools and Practical Experience
AI does not change research writing itself; it changes the way we work when completing research writing.
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Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills
How many times this week did you re-explain the same task to an agent? How many times did you ask your colleague with deep institutional knowledge how to solve
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I reviewed the Apple HomeView, ask me anything
Getting up close and personal with the Apple HomeView. | Photo: Hunter McRae for The Verge Hi! I'm Jen Tuohy, The Verge's senior smart home reviewer. I've teste
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AI Security Incident Detection and Response: How Do You Know Your LLM Application Is Under Attack
Runtime detection is an underrated blind spot in LLM security. Many people assume that once they have run red team tests and fixed vulnerabilities they are done
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WTF are evals? How to test agents and the software they use
Agents are now users of software, doing work on people's behalf. Whether you're building the agent or the software it uses (API, CLI, MCP server, SDK), evals gi
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OpenRouter test: MCP, CLI and Skills — which one is eating your context?
OpenRouter ran the same task — asking an AI agent to look up a GitHub repo's latest release and three bug issues — through MCP, CLI and Skills, and found the in
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Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude
Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently b
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Fact-Checking at Scale: Building a More Accurate and Efficient Synopsis Factuality System
By Shreya S Ramanujam , Yongce Li , Afshine Amidi , Sina Ghiassian , Benjamin Klein . Introduction Picture this — you’re home after a long day at work and can’t
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Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs
We built a vendor-neutral accelerator plugin architecture in lldb-server for debugging applications that span CPUs and GPUs. It separates shared debugger infras
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parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust
Research: parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/difficult it would be to write a SQLite C
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EP232: 6 Frequently Used Orchestration Frameworks in an AI system
A state-of-the-art, fully assembled agent harness (Sponsored) Match or beat harnesses on accuracy with 28% fewer tokens. Strands harness is open source and ship
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Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering
This October, GitHub saw more than 1.2 billion commits in one week—over 400% more than a year earlier. This is more commits than GitHub received in all of 2025.
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Making Immersive LLM Chat Experiences More Accessible
I have had the privilege of helping to improve the accessibility of multiple immersive LLM chat experiences in the course of my career. Now I want to share this
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