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GitHub vs Vercel vs Replit: What Dev Platforms Do When AI Code Is Cheap (15 minute read)
GitHub, Vercel, and Replit are trying to rebuild themselves around solving hard problems in the software development process other than coding.
Jun 12 | Blog
I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.
A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.
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Aug 13 | Data
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (3 minute read)
Connection pooling is now effectively essential infrastructure for Postgres, raising the question of why it is not built into Postgres itself.
Aug 12 | AI
Cursor prepares to launch Origin platform for code reviews (2 minute read)
Cursor seems to be preparing to launch Origin beyond the closed partner beta under the name 'Cursor Review'. Cursor Review will enable two new tabs: Codebase covers syncing and managing repositories pulled in from GitHub, and Review contains an automated pull request pipeline that notifies developers when their judgment is needed, allowing humans and agents to work through open PRs across a codebase together. The rollout could land as early as this week.
Aug 12 | Dev
Where an AI Watermark Can Hide in Plain Text (6 minute read)
Anthropic announced it would start embedding an imperceptible watermark in the text generated by its AI model, Claude, though the specific method of implementation remains undisclosed. While the file-level watermark can be bypassed easily, the text watermark is theorized to exist in a statistical bias in word choice, allowing it to survive copying and pasting, but strategies such as canonical regeneration and prose rewriting could strip this watermark.
