AI Is Forcing Us to Write Good Code — When Best Practices Are Best
TL;DR Steve Krenzel argues that agentic AI makes previously optional engineering practices essential. His team enforces strict guardrails — including…
Production failure from uninitialized C++ struct exposed undefined behavior
TL;DR A production bug in a C++ payment service produced responses that claimed both error and success. The root cause…
Huge Binaries: The 2GiB Relocation Barrier in Mega-Scale ELF Files
TL;DR Engineers who build at extreme scale report ELF binaries that can exceed tens of gigabytes, driven in part by…
You Can’t Design Software You Don’t Work On — Design Must Be Grounded in Code
TL;DR Meaningful software design requires intimate knowledge of the existing codebase; generic design guidance rarely maps cleanly onto large, evolving…
Halide Compression releases fast C port of Cambridge CVVDP metric
TL;DR Halide Compression published fcvvdp, a C implementation of the Cambridge CVVDP perceptual quality metric, with a reported large reduction…
How Mega-Codebases Produce Massive ELF Binaries and the 2GiB Relocation Barrier
TL;DR Large, statically linked codebases can produce ELF binaries that grow well beyond several gigabytes, exposing a practical limit caused…
Z80-μLM: Conversational AI Shrunk to a 40KB CP/M .COM Binary
TL;DR Z80-μLM is a tiny character-level 'conversational' model engineered to run on a 4MHz Z80 with 64KB RAM, packaged as…
Mockito maintainer to step down after a decade over agent, Kotlin issues
TL;DR The long-time Mockito maintainer announced he will resign in March 2026 after ten years, citing exhaustion from a JVM…
Slaughtering Competition Problems Using Quantifier Elimination in SageMath
TL;DR A blog post demonstrates using quantifier elimination — via the Tarski–Seidenberg theorem and QEPCAD through SageMath — to automate…