My understanding is, it's a multi-party cat-and-mouse game that never stops evolving. The publishers (websites or apps owners) that provide free content to users need a way to support the free content, and typically…
Hard mathematics problems used to take years if not decades to tackle manually. But now with enough compute and a hint that a certain approach might work, it just takes a few days. This could be the last year that…
Amazingly, these few days the Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) has been catching much more problems in code reviews than before. I think it started from the second day since I posted the observation above. Maybe somebody from…
I like the "Dark Integers" series of stories written by Greg Egan. They might even have inspired Liu Cixin to write in Death's End that somewhere deep in the universe, some powerful civilizations would weaponize physics…
Yeah, my tool to automate these review loops is https://github.com/wwind123/coding-review-agent-loop . It's basically a script calling Claude, Codex and Antigravity CLI's. The benefit of using CLI's is, the tool uses…
I've been trying this Gemini 3.8 Flash for a day. Looks not much different than Gemini 3.7 Flash in my use case: I have Codex (gpt-5.6 sol) write up a design plan to implement a feature or refactor a portion of a system…
Taxing resource consumption, would likely encourage companies to optimize for less and less resource consumption. That by itself might be a good thing. But what if some day companies achieved the ultimate savings, using…
I understand the approach to wait until the same pattern shows up across multiple different problem domains, to build a good solution for all of them. But sometimes it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Teams most often don't…
Nowadays I mostly listen to e-books when I am doing house chores or driving or doing some other things that require the eyes but not the entire brain. Not sure if it counts as reading. If it does, then I read about…
I learned BASIC in 1985 on an Apple II, and 6502 machine language in 1987, while in high school. I was able to publish a 6502 machine language program on a national computer magazine that year. Back then we printed the…
A lot of old mission-critical banking or commercial software systems have been running on those machines for decades. Before the AI age, it'd seem impossible to migrate those programs off. Now with the AI help, there…
Yeah. Bug-for-bug migration is a real thing in large code-bases in the industry. You want to replicate all behavior of the code regardless whether the behavior is a feature or a bug. See Hyrum's Law:…
I am guessing that's because Sign in with Google is the least of the evil, as compared to other popular OAuth Sign-in options like Facebook, X...
I think it'd take some time for people to figure out what kind of harness or workflow would work best with each individual codebase or team culture. AI certainly can help speed things up a lot, but for now the humans…
Last time I looked into this (about a month ago), there's a lot of restrictions on the use of Gemini's search grounding results. There's not even an easy or approved way to de-mangle their returned URL's to get to the…
As a side note, I previously commented somewhere else that, if a language has a terse way and a verbose way to do the same thing, preferring the terse way might be more economical because it saves bunch of tokens for…
I think it's kind of awkward either way. The standard committee keeps adding new features to the language to address common pain points in the industry. But many people don't have that much time to learn the new…
I think it's just a common practice to do it this way in the industry. May not mean these companies are intentionally hiding something at this point of time.
A side note: the article starts with "If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have?" but does not mention China: usually Li Bai (李白) and Du Fu (杜甫) from…
A typical suggestion is to make the agent create or update a .md file once in a while, so the agent would remember the new important things that have shown up since the last update. The problem is, how would the agent…
Why not try a real database like Postgres? It's not as light-weight, but when operations get complicated, real databases are much easier to work with. I had a website that started with SQLLite, but when it got…
Also...allow people to work from home more. During the Covid pandemic, most white-collar employees work from home, and the commute and the traffic is usually not a big problem. But now more and more companies ask…
Yeah, some work from Google has had an outsize impact on the entire industry. Won't be surprising if they eventually get a nod from the Turing Award. Including the main authors of the Transformer work for driving the…
I still remember back in 2005 when I just joined a company, a coworker was quipping Google is not a real elite company, because it doesn't even have a Turing Award winner. I showed him the news that Vint Cerf joined…
To be honest, I'm more worried about another side of the problem. LLM's are good at learning from whatever humans have posted online. But with the agentic workflows getting more popular, more and more problems those AI…
My understanding is, it's a multi-party cat-and-mouse game that never stops evolving. The publishers (websites or apps owners) that provide free content to users need a way to support the free content, and typically…
Hard mathematics problems used to take years if not decades to tackle manually. But now with enough compute and a hint that a certain approach might work, it just takes a few days. This could be the last year that…
Amazingly, these few days the Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) has been catching much more problems in code reviews than before. I think it started from the second day since I posted the observation above. Maybe somebody from…
I like the "Dark Integers" series of stories written by Greg Egan. They might even have inspired Liu Cixin to write in Death's End that somewhere deep in the universe, some powerful civilizations would weaponize physics…
Yeah, my tool to automate these review loops is https://github.com/wwind123/coding-review-agent-loop . It's basically a script calling Claude, Codex and Antigravity CLI's. The benefit of using CLI's is, the tool uses…
I've been trying this Gemini 3.8 Flash for a day. Looks not much different than Gemini 3.7 Flash in my use case: I have Codex (gpt-5.6 sol) write up a design plan to implement a feature or refactor a portion of a system…
Taxing resource consumption, would likely encourage companies to optimize for less and less resource consumption. That by itself might be a good thing. But what if some day companies achieved the ultimate savings, using…
I understand the approach to wait until the same pattern shows up across multiple different problem domains, to build a good solution for all of them. But sometimes it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Teams most often don't…
Nowadays I mostly listen to e-books when I am doing house chores or driving or doing some other things that require the eyes but not the entire brain. Not sure if it counts as reading. If it does, then I read about…
I learned BASIC in 1985 on an Apple II, and 6502 machine language in 1987, while in high school. I was able to publish a 6502 machine language program on a national computer magazine that year. Back then we printed the…
A lot of old mission-critical banking or commercial software systems have been running on those machines for decades. Before the AI age, it'd seem impossible to migrate those programs off. Now with the AI help, there…
Yeah. Bug-for-bug migration is a real thing in large code-bases in the industry. You want to replicate all behavior of the code regardless whether the behavior is a feature or a bug. See Hyrum's Law:…
I am guessing that's because Sign in with Google is the least of the evil, as compared to other popular OAuth Sign-in options like Facebook, X...
I think it'd take some time for people to figure out what kind of harness or workflow would work best with each individual codebase or team culture. AI certainly can help speed things up a lot, but for now the humans…
Last time I looked into this (about a month ago), there's a lot of restrictions on the use of Gemini's search grounding results. There's not even an easy or approved way to de-mangle their returned URL's to get to the…
As a side note, I previously commented somewhere else that, if a language has a terse way and a verbose way to do the same thing, preferring the terse way might be more economical because it saves bunch of tokens for…
I think it's kind of awkward either way. The standard committee keeps adding new features to the language to address common pain points in the industry. But many people don't have that much time to learn the new…
I think it's just a common practice to do it this way in the industry. May not mean these companies are intentionally hiding something at this point of time.
A side note: the article starts with "If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have?" but does not mention China: usually Li Bai (李白) and Du Fu (杜甫) from…
A typical suggestion is to make the agent create or update a .md file once in a while, so the agent would remember the new important things that have shown up since the last update. The problem is, how would the agent…
Why not try a real database like Postgres? It's not as light-weight, but when operations get complicated, real databases are much easier to work with. I had a website that started with SQLLite, but when it got…
Also...allow people to work from home more. During the Covid pandemic, most white-collar employees work from home, and the commute and the traffic is usually not a big problem. But now more and more companies ask…
Yeah, some work from Google has had an outsize impact on the entire industry. Won't be surprising if they eventually get a nod from the Turing Award. Including the main authors of the Transformer work for driving the…
I still remember back in 2005 when I just joined a company, a coworker was quipping Google is not a real elite company, because it doesn't even have a Turing Award winner. I showed him the news that Vint Cerf joined…
To be honest, I'm more worried about another side of the problem. LLM's are good at learning from whatever humans have posted online. But with the agentic workflows getting more popular, more and more problems those AI…