Link: https://youtu.be/pTMvh6VzDls?si=GSEmB3KadHuv-TdD
This made me clear. So clear. But still want to put into practise. I have some features to implement for turso database, so in that will be facing those kinds of issues.
Source: techstructive-weekly-65
Don’t try to eliminate developers; don't sell that as the promise of AI; design platforms and practices that amplify their understanding
Link: https://russmiles.substack.com/p/you-cannot-outsource-understanding
So true, this is relief bringer post. People tried replacing developers so many times, yet here we are. Cleaning the vibe coded slop We had assembly to programming language to no-code platforms, and now AI. They all wanted to outsource the burden of managing or working with developers but eventually they end up in more of those. Are software engineers really that bad, like people want to remove them? Why? We solve problems (and end up creating more, but the original problem is indeed solved) But no one can take the task as happily (or readily)as developers because we are driven by the hunger of understanding, the curiousity that kindles and fires the rest of the way through the solution, no one can easily outsource it.
Link: https://youtu.be/iES9r7AZP1s
Maybe its a big leap in terms of intelligence to cost ratio. We might get more cheaper models with more intelligence. Open Models especially the China Models are pushing these AI Labs in a better direction. GLM and Kimi K2 have forced Anthropic to release this to stay competitive and able to sustain their growth. Phew! What times to live in as a developer.
Link: https://herbertlui.net/craft-not-fame-makes-your-story-worth-telling/
This is not a technical read, but worth mentioning here. If you’re concerned that your story is too boring, put some effort into making it matter Everybody has a story to tell. You just need to pick the right ones, and to give it some meaning So true and well said here. If you really want to tell a story, you will write one, else, you will find excuses or make a horrendous mess of AI and average slop
Don't grind on something the company doesn't value. Hard work is not rewarded. **_Outcomes_** are rewarded.
Link: https://swizec.com/blog/the-grind-wont-get-you-there/
True, you need to speak up. Just little conversations, little efforts, small nudges go a long, long way. You never know what you would be leading to. Just keep your mind open and create a positive environment around you.
Source: techstructive-weekly-64
Recently, I have been testing how well the newest generations of large language models (such as GPT-5 or Claude 4.5) handle natural language, specifically counting characters, manipulating characters in a sentences, or solving encoding and ciphers. …
Link: https://blog.burkert.me/posts/llm_evolution_character_manipulation/
Its evident from the test that newer and larger models are better at generalizing Base64 encoding and decoding. So that implies they will get better at character-level manipulation and analysis. Sadly the how many r’s in strawberry problem will be solvable by LLMs Thinking is out of the equation, the crux here is the tokenisation, the better sense of the word you have, the better it understands, but the fine balance between less and more context is critical, and I think it is still being fine tuned to get a sweet spot.
Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/notes-on-switching-to-helix-from-vim/
I like this approach of adapting to tooling. The author had clearly listed the reason, the main crux of why he chose Helix over Vim in the first place. I like that the language server is built in, just like PyCharm is for Python. VS Code, you have to install plugins or extensions. Vim as well you’ll have to configure LSPs and plugins. Helix is a good middle ground, I think. No tool is perfect, and it obviously has some quirks and things that might not please everyone, you just have to get used to them.
A deep dive into how CRDT-powered local-first apps track, merge, and sync every INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE inside SQLite.
Link: https://marcobambini.substack.com/p/the-secret-life-of-a-local-first
This is lovely. So well explained what CRDTs are. It’s like a log of what happened in a row of a table. Like column-level details of updation/insertion and deletion. It makes sense now. The metadata table is the crux of this structure. What would happen if the database itself crashes? That is unlikely, I think. SQLite cannot crash at least locally. Nice thinking here.
No newsletter next week Running the TLA+ workshop. No way I'm gonna have any brainpower after that. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel...
Link: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
This is unique thinking. I like it, I can see how it can help developers understand and read code. But having that specific mode toggled is quite challenging and worth digging into. Tree sitter is quite the thing that we can use here, but toggling different modes in different contexts is quite absurd, I think. How would you know which mode works in the given context? I guess you’ll have to try a few things and get a sense of what you are trying to learn from the code.
Link: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/18368-there-are-no-programmers-in-star-trek.html
This makes me sad, if there are no real programmers, how are their services operating? If computers just work and do what they are told, why is there even a service? Why just not complete everything and be done with it? I wonder if 2027 be a year like that, where you say something and vibe coded mess some how works, how far are we from the reality to here?