Dev
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Nobody With Claws
A wry look at Nvidia’s reported NemoClaw move, tracing the name from classical “nobody” to the modern dream of open-source AI agents with enterprise claws.
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Your AI Writes Tests That Pass. That Is the Problem.
AI-generated tests often create false confidence by checking that code runs, not that it is robust, correct, or secure.
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The ROM Listing Spirit Lives On in Apple Silicon
From TRS-80 ROM listings to reverse-engineered Neural Engines: Apple silicon is making home computers weird, intimate, and exciting again.
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COBOL Was Never the Product. The Toll Booth Was.
Anthropic’s COBOL pitch is not about old code. It threatens the costly consulting bottleneck around banks, insurers, and government legacy systems.
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PageIndex.ai: A persuasive “vectorless RAG” idea—especially for real PDFs
PageIndex.ai uses tree-structured, reasoning-based retrieval for long PDFs – great for traceability, but test latency/cost on messy docs.
