I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to …
Andrej Karpathy on X: "It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December" / Twitter
A collection of datapoints in or around 2025 which we may look back as a historical inflection point. Open source & curated in realtime by Latent Space.
#44 Percent literals: %r - 365 Reasons to Love Ruby
Earlier this week we looked at the %w percent literal for creating arrays of strings. Another useful percent literal is %r, which creates regular expressions...
No temp variables needed for pointers in Go 1.26 | pawelgrzybek.com
Go 1.26 makes pointer creation a lot easier by allowing an expression as an argument. This little change can reduce a ton of boilerplate in your codebase.
One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.