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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 23 Aug.
Trust Calibration for AI Software Builders
Trust calibration is a concept from the world of human-machine interaction design, one that is super relevant to AI software builders. Trust calibration is the practice of aligning the level of trust that users have in our products with its actual capabilities. If we build things that our users trus...
Redpanda open-sources top 16 AI connectors
Redpanda open-sources top AI connectors to the most used destinations, including OpenAI, Cohere, Bedrock, Ollama, and Vertex AI. Learn more.
Q&A with DoorDash’s CPO, Mariana Garavaglia
Learn how DoorDash is scaling AI adoption to empower employees to build, learn, and innovate faster in a conversation with Chief People Officer Mariana Garavaglia.
From Zero to GPU: A Guide to Building and Scaling Production-Ready CUDA Kernels
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MCP for Research: How to Connect AI to Research Tools
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Kimina-Prover-RL
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Arm & ExecuTorch 0.7: Bringing Generative AI to the masses
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Discord’s Powerful Cross-Platform Chat: Ready for Your Game
The Discord Social SDK is coming out of closed beta! Developers can now take advantage of Discord’s voice and text chat in their games and help players connect for longer playtimes by enhancing their multiplayer experiences.
Streaming optimized data to S3 for analytics with Parquet
Learn how to build a powerful data pipeline that feeds analytics systems from Redpanda using clean, compressed Parquet files in Amazon S3.
Neural Super Sampling is here!
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Real-time CDC for inventory tracking with PostgreSQL
Learn how to easily implement real-time CDC using PostgreSQL and Redpanda for stress-free inventory tracking.
OpenAI’s letter to Governor Newsom on harmonized regulation
We’ve just sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for California to lead the way in harmonizing state-based AI regulation with national—and, by virtue of US leadership, emerging global—standards.
Scaling accounting capacity with OpenAI
Built with OpenAI o3, o3-Pro, GPT-4.1, and GPT-5, Basis’ AI agents help accounting firms save up to 30% of their time and expand capacity for advisory and growth.
TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?
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🇵🇭 FilBench - Can LLMs Understand and Generate Filipino?
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Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io
Recently, I suggested that The Future Isn’t Model Agnostic, that it’s better to pick one model that works for your project and build around it, rather than engineering for model flexibility. If you buy that, you also have to acknowledge how important comprehensive model evaluation becomes. Benchmark...
From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
And How They Stack Up Against Qwen3
Introducing the Community Server Cleanup Report for August 2025
Discord has built a whole new team dedicated to bringing communities more control, more power, and fewer reasons to scream into the void. Check out the first things they've done, including fixes and improvements for server management issues, onboarding, Forum channels, and mod tools.
The Future Isn't Model Agnostic
Your users don’t care that your AI project is model agnostic. In my last project, I spent countless hours ensuring that the LLMs running my services could be swapped out as easily as possible. I couldn’t touch a device with an internet connection without hearing about the latest benchmark-breaking m...
Introducing AI Sheets: a tool to work with datasets using open AI models!
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Accelerate ND-Parallel: A guide to Efficient Multi-GPU Training
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Introducing GPT-5 for developers
Introducing GPT-5 in our API platform—offering high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks.
GPT-5 and the new era of work
GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model—transforming enterprise AI, automation, and workforce productivity in the new era of intelligent work.
Coding and design with GPT-5
Learn how GPT-5 unlocks new possibilities in coding and design.
Creative writing with GPT-5
Learn how GPT-5 assists with creative writing.