What Healthcare Engineers Know About Building Reliable Systems That Web Engineers Don’t
This is going to sound combative. It isn’t meant to be. Web engineers, broadly, are excellent at the work they do. The systems they build operate at scales and with feature velocities that healthcare engineers, broadly, don’t approach. The web engineering tradition...
Sharing Data Across Languages Without Serialization
Learn why zero-copy cross-language data sharing is difficult, from memory layout mismatches to ABI violations and ownership disputes.
Using Agents to Fix Our Agents
I lead product on a browser agent that fills out job applications for candidates. Where previously the best option for candidates was a browser extension, job boards can now use LLM-driven browser automation to enable candidates with better UI/UX. Our product...
Agentic AI: The Next Cybersecurity Challenge
The Big Shift: From Chatbots to "Doers" For the past few years, we have been using Generative AI systems like ChatGPT that are great at talking but mostly wait for us to tell them what to do. Now, we are moving into the era of Agentic AI. Unlike a simple chatbot, an...
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Shows Why AI Cyber Defense Needs Collaboration
No single organization can defend against AI-powered attacks alone.
The Real Reason You Lose Money Isn’t Analysis
Two traders open the same Bitcoin chart. Same indicators, same support levels, same headlines. One finishes the year up 30%. The other is down 60% and out of the game. The difference wasn’t the analysis. They were staring at the same screen. Most people assume losing...
Your Redshift Cluster Is Probably Idle 85% of the Time — And You’re Paying for All of It
A production Redshift cluster with a single node running Zero ETL integrations. At 99% disk capacity with recurring storage crises requiring frequent manual intervention. When I ran a workload analysis on this cluster, the result was stark. It was actively processing...
The Case for Black and Asian Solidarity
Why Hotfixes Fail and How to Engineer Long-Term Cross-Cultural Resilience Recently, two major judicial decisions involving young Black males have shaken the American cultural landscape. In Texas, a teenager was sentenced to 35 years for murder following a disputed...
The Model Context Protocol Is an Enterprise Backdoor
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining rapid adoption as a plug-and-play standard for giving AI agents direct access to databases, filesystems, and internal APIs. However, because it relies on unauthenticated local transport pipes (like stdio), it completely...
The Anatomy of an LLM Citation: How B2B Content Actually Gets Picked Up by AI Search Engines
Six months ago, I ran a citation audit for a mid-market B2B account. The site had respectable SEO foundations: a clean technical setup, around 180 blog articles published over five years, enough authority to support competitive queries, and stable organic traffic that...
Vibe Coding Dies the Moment It Meets a Legacy System
Vibe coding seems like an excellent choice in an ideal repository. We describe the application, after which AI coding Agent creates the frontend, backend, database model, and test cases. The application runs locally and does everything that it should do. At this...
A Question the World’s Reserve Managers Never Had to Ask, Until Now
Every financial system needs an anchor. Something stable enough to build on, liquid enough to move through, and trusted enough to hold when uncertainty spikes. Nations, banks, and corporations all survive crises for the same reason: they hold reserves that absorb the...
I’m Becoming a Progress Junkie (and AI is the Dealer)
In July 2025, METR ran a randomized controlled trial on sixteen experienced developers, 246 real tasks, on the developers' own codebases. The devs estimated AI made them 20% faster. The data said they were 19% SLOWER (Becker et al., METR, 2025). That number rocketed...
Building a Fake Solar Plant for Cybersecurity Research — Part 3
An exposed energy-themed honeypot gets discovered in under an hour, then faces continuous brute force, web scanning, and protocol-aware Modbus reconnaissance, with zero write or control attempts. Part 3 turns those findings into defence. The same structural controls...
You Do Not Need Claude Opus for Every Step. Here Is How to Cut Your Agent Costs by 90%.
Three months after we launched our first production agent pipeline, I got pulled into a meeting about the cloud bill. I was not the one tracking it. That landed on our platform team lead who flagged it to the engineering manager who flagged it to me. The number was...
I Moved From Building Dashboards to Designing Decision Systems
For a long time, I thought better dashboards would lead to better decisions. That seemed obvious to me. If people had cleaner visuals, clearer charts, and more accurate numbers, they would surely make better choices. So I did what most data professionals do when they...
Search Before a Search Engine
When a feature that searches across a large relational dataset starts to slow down, a dedicated search engine is one of the first ideas on the table. It is usually the right idea, and usually premature the first time it comes up. Between a query that has become too...
Building a Privacy-First AI Ecosystem in Two Months — At Age 12
Wizard Ecosystem: The free, AI-powered alternative to Google Workspace. Browser, Mail, Calendar, Chat, Search, Notes, and AI — all in one place. Built by a 12-year-old. 🧙
The Best Way to Learn Game Design Is to Finish Games
Learn why finishing small game projects teaches more than endlessly polishing one big idea.
How Authentication Really Works Behind the Login Screen
Authentication is the act of proving you are who you claim to be. It sounds simple. In practice, it is a chain of cryptographic operations, risk evaluations, session management decisions, and trust signals — all executing in under a second, every time someone opens a...
You can get Amazon Prime totally free for 6 months if you’re age 18-24 – what to know
Amazon's Prime for Young Adults plan gets college students and young people a big break on the membership. Here's how to get it.
How Roku became way more important than you realize
How Roku became way more important than you realize Go to Source Hello again from Fast Company and welcome back to Plugged In. Last Friday, Reuters’ Echo Wang, Milana Vinn, and Dawn Chmielewski reported that Roku, the maker of the...
Waffle House is winning the World Cup
Waffle House is winning the World Cup Go to Source On the eve of its 250th birthday, the United States isn’t exactly at peak popularity, globally speaking. One poll this past spring found that despite its past most-admired status, the...
BYD will pay every last cent for any damage caused by its autopilot
BYD will pay every last cent for any damage caused by its autopilot Go to Source BYD, the China-based maker of electric vehicles, has done something no automaker has dared to do: It’s promising to pay every bill—repairs, property...
Are you prepared to wait until 2027 for a Steam Controller?
Are you prepared to wait until 2027 for a Steam Controller? Go to Source In an update, Valve says it may not ship some Steam Controller orders until next year.
The marketing funnel is dead. Here’s what replaced it
The funnel is dead. Not evolving. Not disrupted. Dead. For decades, the Awareness-Consideration-Decision model anchored every marketing strategy deck. It worked because vendors controlled the information. Buyers had to follow the path you laid out. They needed you....
Cybersecurity Firms Impacted by Klue Supply Chain Attack
The hackers exfiltrated data from Salesforce instances of Klue customers, such as Huntress and Recorded Future. The post Cybersecurity Firms Impacted by Klue Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting
Rockstar Games has suffered a legal setback in a dispute over alleged union busting, clearing the way for a final employment tribunal hearing shortly before Grand Theft Auto VI is due to launch. The developer had sought to have "blacklisting" allegations struck from...
World Cup or not, high performers get these 3 things wrong about pressure
If you have watched a goalkeeper face a penalty kick, you know you are watching 0.3 seconds of pure attentional reckoning. The goalkeeper who dives before the ball is struck did not panic or fail to lean on their training. Their attention was misplaced. The stress of...
Salesforce Disables Klue App Integration After OAuth Token Abuse Exposes Customer Data
Salesforce has revealed that it disabled the Klue Battlecards app integration within its platform in response to a security incident impacting the competitive intelligence company on June 11, 2026. To that end, organizations will be unable to connect to Salesforce via...