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Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video

After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plugins like Autotune introducing […]
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How We Cut Inference Cold Starts from Minutes to Seconds

Co-authored with Netanel Kadosh You've built a great inference service. Auto-scaling is configured. The model performs beautifully in testing. You ship it to production feeling good. Then a traffic spike hits at 2 AM. New pods start spinning up. Users start waiting. Your on-call phone lights up. You watch the dashboards- nodes are healthy, no errors, but the pods just... aren't ready. Eight minutes pass. Then nine. Then ten. Sometimes fourteen. Fourteen minutes for a service that ...
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Semantic Search, Embeddings, Reranking, and LLM Classification by Topic

Short answer: retrieve the taxonomy passages with embeddings, rerank that small set, and ask an LLM to classify the moderation report against only the best passages, returning a schema-validated JSON label for human review. This is an architecture decision, not a three-model trick. The stable contract is the label schema. Retrieval keeps the business definitions current, reranking improves the evidence placed in front of the classifier, and validation prevents a plausible paragraph from enter...
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gomarc: MARC21 for Go, 4x–11x faster than pymarc

If you work with library data, you work with MARC21 — the length-prefixed binary record format catalogues have run on since the 1960s, complete with a directory of field offsets, subfield delimiters, and a pre-Unicode character encoding called MARC-8 that needs a lookup table with thousands of entries to decode. In Python that problem is solved: pymarc is mature, complete, and pleasant to use. In Go it wasn't. gomarc is a port of pymarc to Go. It covers the binary MARC21 transm...
Managed Inference on Google Cloud: Pairing the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with Cloud Run
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Managed Inference on Google Cloud: Pairing the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with Cloud Run

If you have ever wanted to ship an AI-powered application without managing GPUs, model servers, or scaling infrastructure yourself, this guide is for you. Managed inference simply means letting a cloud provider run the AI model for you: you send a request, the platform handles the compute, and you get a response back. On Google Cloud, the cleanest way to do this today is to pair the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) with Google Cloud Run , dividing responsibilities be...
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AI Is Removing the Middle Class of Software Engineering

You can prompt an agent for three hours and ship a 25,000-line pull request. Nobody on your team can tell you why it works — or why it breaks at 2 AM. The New Workflow It's 2026. You're the senior engineer on a mid-size product team. Your job has always been the person who catches the architecture mistakes before they compound — the one who notices that a Kafka dependency was grafted onto a read-heavy query, or that someone denormalized the database because it was faster than...
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2026-08-12 - 1 - ProForma - Guards

Hello I'm Marlene and I invite you to follow my journey developing ProForma.net. But since this is my first post about ProForma, I will give you an overview of what I'm trying to achieve. What ProForma.net is planned to be The main Goal is to develop an application shell for schema based Applications. You will have mainly to different types of UI schemes, first for the Window Layout, there you will tell which elements are contained in the different application sections, like...
I Built a Notebook for Sharing Notes That Doesn't Ask You to Sign Up First
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I Built a Notebook for Sharing Notes That Doesn't Ask You to Sign Up First

Someone asked me to share meeting notes in Slack yesterday. I pasted the markdown. Slack ate the table. The code block lost its indentation. The task list rendered as literal [ ] characters. I spent five minutes reformatting something that already looked perfect in my editor. So I sent a link instead. Not to Notion — they would have to sign up. Not to Google Docs — same problem, plus I did not want this living in someone's Drive forever. Not to a pastebin — those are single blobs of t...
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I Built a Concurrent Resource Scheduler in Go with Sharded Priority Heaps

Support on GitHub: github.com/phero20/concurrent-resource-scheduler (Give it a star if you find it useful!) View Docs: pkg.go.dev/github.com/phero20/concurrent-resource-scheduler What happens when thousands of concurrent requests compete for a small pool of reusable resources? You can put a mutex around a slice and hope for the best. Or you can design the scheduler around concurrency from the beginning. I chose the second option. I built Concurrent Resource S...
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What a signature does not prove

I spend most of my time building evidence layers for AI agents. The reflex in that work is to reach for a signature. Something happened, sign the record, hand it to the auditor, done. Three things from the last five months say that reflex is wrong, or at least badly incomplete. One is a governance draft that never asks for a signature at all. One is a CVE where the signature verified correctly and the client still ended up talking to an attacker. One is a limit in a spec I wrote myself. Re...
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Building a Multi-Engine 3D Generation API: Routing, Credits, and Webhooks

How I designed the API layer for Trify3D — a platform that routes one input across multiple AI 3D engines (Tripo3D, Meshy, Rodin) so users can compare meshes side by side. This post covers provider routing, async job management with Trigger.dev, idempotency for credit safety, and webhook delivery. The Problem Every AI 3D engine has a blind spot. Tripo3D is fast (~48 seconds) and great at hard-surface props, but it flattens organic detail. Meshy handles characters and ...
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Distributed Tracing: Following a Request Across Microservices

Distributed Tracing: Following a Request Across Microservices A practical guide to distributed tracing as an architectural discipline — why single-service logging and metrics stop being sufficient once a request crosses many services, how a trace actually reconstructs a request's journey, trace analysis techniques for diagnosing latency and failures, and the specific propagation challenges microservice systems built from this series' REST, gRPC, and messaging guides need to solve. ...
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What Extended Support Actually Costs: The Cross-Vendor Pricing Reference for Post-EOL Software

The first cross-vendor pricing reference for post-EOL extended support. Microsoft ESU: $61/device doubling yearly ($30 one-time for consumers). AWS: EKS $0.60/cluster-hour (6x), RDS $0.100/vCPU-hour doubling in year three. Ubuntu Pro: $25 desktop / $500 server per year. And the honest quote-based rows — Red Hat ELS, Oracle, SUSE LTSS, CentOS ELS — where no public price exists. Every figure traced to a vendor price page or our verified coverage. The cross-vendor price table ...