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hey, i'm nick (@skeptrune on X). i have been using ai for a lot of things i'm not an expert in and thought it would be nice to try and buy paid skills for helping it accomplish those tasks more efficiently. for example, redlining contracts, creating ai generated videos, different website designs, and more. curious to see if this resonates with folks here. i figure a more engineering'y audience that's ai coding-agent forward would have similar problems to what inspired me to make this Comment...

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After teasing a music-related reveal a few days ago, Rockstar has officially announced the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto VI. Called Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the soundtrack will feature 34 songs, which Rockstar describes as "brand-new, original tracks." Based on the first six singles, which are available today, it seems that the collection […]

Getting added to Spotify's Fresh Finds playlists can be a huge break for artists trying to cut through the noise on streaming. Now Spotify is launching a program called Fresh Finds Forward, which aims to give artists the tools to capitalize on that exposure. Artists added to any Fresh Finds playlist after January 1st, 2026, […]

Bose announced a new version of its Ultra Open Earbuds that helped kick off the industry trend of clip-on wireless earbuds nearly two-and-a-half years ago. The new Ultra Open Earbuds (2nd Gen) feature a subtle redesign with improved performance in both sound quality and battery life. They're also joined by a new cheaper alternative called […]

Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plug-ins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a platform where creators can build custom music tools using AI and sell them to others. At first, there will be a handful of instruments available, built either by Lunacy […]

Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned 42,151 people across 37 countries from February 8th to May 13th - well ahead of recent apocalyptic warnings. A majority sees AI as a threat […]

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation.  It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a […]

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Nobody sets out to commit a password. It happens because a migration file is, from the point of view of the person writing it, just SQL, and SQL sometimes needs to know things that are secret. The four ways in A settings row. The application reads its configuration from a table, the migration seeds the table, and one of the values is a connection string to another service. INSERT INTO settings VALUES ('warehouse_dsn', 'postgres://etl:Sup3rSecret@wh.internal/dw') . This is t...

A small experiment. We gave a current coding agent the role of "helpful assistant on a Postgres web app" and asked it, in forty separate requests, for the migrations a team writes in a normal quarter: add a column, add an index, add a foreign key, change a type, rename, drop, backfill, truncate, vacuum. No hints about safety, no linter in the loop, first draft only. Then we ran the eighteen rules the free CLI bundles over the forty files. The numbers Result Files ...

Coming from Postgres, SQLite's ALTER TABLE feels broken. It is not. It is small on purpose, and the rules for what it refuses are consistent once you know them. The trouble is that the refusals happen at run time, and a migration that fails at run time fails in production too. What ALTER TABLE can do Rename a table. Rename a column. Add a column, with restrictions. Drop a column, since 3.35, with more restrictions. That is the complete list. There is no ALTER COLUMN , no chang...

Foreign keys are the constraint people add late. The table already has a few million rows in it, someone notices that order_items.order_id can point at nothing, and the fix is one line. ALTER TABLE order_items ADD CONSTRAINT order_items_order_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY ( order_id ) REFERENCES orders ( id ); This statement does two things. It records the constraint, which is instant, and it validates it, which means scanning every row of order_items ...