GNU and the AI reimplementations
Redis author (Antirez)’s take on AI reimplementation.
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
agent.md cannot work for the agent.This resembles leading a large engineering platform organization: enforce boundaries centrally, allow autonomy locally.
This really feels like working with a human. The limits of the agent are very clear.
What’s become clear: building software still demands discipline, but the discipline shows up more in the scaffolding rather than the code. The tooling, abstractions, and feedback loops that keep the codebase coherent are increasingly important.
Is Iran on the Brink of Another Revolution?
An Iranian commentator providing an Iranian point of view.
Russ Cox has written extensively about how to integrate AI commits into Go:
AI tools have seduced many people into a false belief that these fundamentals no longer apply. People brag about codebases of hundreds of thousands of lines that have never been viewed by people, churned out in record time. On closer inspection, these codebases inevitably turn out to be more like dancing elephants than useful engineering artifacts.
Can an elephant dance? (It cannot). Ref: BBC - Can Elephants Dance?
It’s even more interesting to read together with OpenAI’s harness engineering article.
Tony Hoare has passed away. He was the inventor of Quicksort and had a big impact on Go design (CSP).
Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto
I really enjoyed this interview. I was a Vagrant user back in 2013 and a Consul user starting in 2017, and I even met Hashimoto once in a meeting. What he did in the infra/DevOps world was pretty amazing.
What Private-Credit Investors Need to Know About the Industry’s Turmoil
Quite fascinating. Why US investors would invest in such funds when they could simply buy S&P 500?