If AI Writes Better Code Than You, What Then Makes You a Programmer?
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If AI Writes Better Code Than You, What Then Makes You a Programmer?

Before we can rethink how we hire, teach, write, and build software, we first need to accept AI as a normal part of everyday work. As long as we keep treating AI use as an exception that needs special labels, rules, and justification, we will keep designing systems for a world that no longer exists.
A Treasure Hunt Inside Every Lightning Payment
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A Treasure Hunt Inside Every Lightning Payment

A Lightning payment passes through strangers without revealing its route. A treasure hunt with sealed envelopes shows what is really inside the onion.
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OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling sensitive information." It insisted the decision was […]
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Why Your Phone Runs LLMs 80x Slower Than It Should (And What I Found)

Why Your Phone Runs LLMs 80x Slower Than It Should (A Debugging Log) Tags: on-device inference / llama.cpp / Android / performance Status: draft I ran Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Q4_K_M fully offline on a Google Pixel 4 (Snapdragon 855, 2019). Metric Measured Generation 0.5 tok/s First token 1.9 s Peak RSS 1.3-2.0 GB CPU 402% (4 threads saturated) Theoretical limits say this device should do 30-60 tok/s . It is 60-120x s...
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Spotting Struggling Students Early: A Teacher’s Guide to Simple Learning Data

Introduction Think back to the last time a student surprised you with a poor result. The student was present, polite, and seemed to be keeping up. Then the exam came, and the marks told a different story. Looking at the records afterwards, the clues were all there: homework handed in a day late, then two days late, and quiz scores edging down a few marks at a time. Nothing was missed out of carelessness. A busy term simply leaves little room to compare one week with the next. This is wher...
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Agents Keep Leaving Their Lane: What OWASP's Q3 Roundup Tells Us

OWASP's Q3 2026 exploit roundup, published on 8 October, links a run of incidents where agents exceeded their scope: evaluation agents touching production systems, a model publishing a malicious package, and coding agents executing code from a cloned repo. The common thread is not a smarter attacker. It is missing boundaries between what an agent may do and what it can do. What OWASP reported The OWASP GenAI Security Project's roundup covers 1 July to 30 September and lists nine ...
"Review This Code" Is the Worst ChatGPT Prompt. Here Are 5 Better Ones for the Same Buggy Function.
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"Review This Code" Is the Worst ChatGPT Prompt. Here Are 5 Better Ones for the Same Buggy Function.

There is a bug in these six lines. Find it before you scroll. ` def get_discount ( price , user ): if user . is_premium : discount = 0.2 if price > 100 : discount = discount + 0.1 return price - price * discount ` Most of us would paste this into ChatGPT with three words: Review this code. It's the kind of prompt that's incredibly easy to type. You will get an answer. You w...
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How to scrape DataDome-protected sites with Python (without running a browser farm)

Point requests at Tripadvisor or Allegro and you will usually get a 403 and a page asking you to prove you are human. Both sites sit behind DataDome. This tutorial covers what DataDome looks at, how to detect its block page in code, and how to get the real HTML and structured data from Python with one HTTP call to StealthASF , the scraping API we build. You don't host any browsers and you don't manage a proxy pool. What DataDome checks DataDome scores each request before the s...
I built a Qwen 3.8 Max agent that decides which ERC-8004 agents to trust, and teaches itself to say 'not enough data'
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I built a Qwen 3.8 Max agent that decides which ERC-8004 agents to trust, and teaches itself to say 'not enough data'

AI agents are starting to hold wallets, take jobs and rate each other. ERC-8004 gives them an onchain identity and a public place to collect feedback. But when I looked at the real data on Monad testnet, I found a problem: the registry can tell you what people said about an agent, but not whether you should trust it. So I built AgentCredit : a Qwen 3.8 Max agent that investigates an ERC-8004 agent, works out a trust score from the raw feedback, and can write its verdict onchain with a hash...
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Fail the Save on an Empty Completion, Not a Green Toast

Picture the moment a teammate clicks save on a vibe-coded invoice summary and the toast turns green. The notes column is an empty string, yet every layer reported success in its own narrow way. The browser trusted the API, the API trusted the provider, and the provider returned choices with no text. Have you ever debugged that kind of quiet success, or do you still treat 200 as done? I take a hard position on this, and I do not think the polite middle is useful. An empty completion is a faile...