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The Context Observability Gap: Why "Magic" Agents Fail in Production
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www.rockoder.com
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4 months ago
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eng
Why the superior performance of AI coding agents comes from explicit, observable context engineering rather than hidden model 'magic'.
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How Yelp Built a Back-Testing Engine for Safer, Smarter Ad Budget Allocation
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engineeringblog.yelp.com
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4 months ago
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eng
Introduction Modern advertising platforms are fast-paced and interconnected: even small adjustments can have ripple effects on how ads are shown, how budgets are spent, and the value advertisers get from their ad spend. At Yelp, Ad Budget Allocation means splitting each campaign’s spend between on‑platform inventory (our website, mobile site, and app) and off‑platform inventory (the Yelp Ad Network). We optimize this split to meet advertise..
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Searches for locations with a slash in them are now more accurate with MapTiler's geocoding service. We account for local differences in how they are used around the world.
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Today I want to talk about failure – specifically where it applies to my work on SmartPoi/Magic Poi, with Cecli AI assistant. Fail #1 A little while back I decided to add Timeline mode to SmartPoi – and SmartPoi_Controls. This required code updates to: Win #1 After looking at Timelines, I realised that actually I … Continue reading "Failure is part of Success" The post Failure is part of Success appeared first on Circus Scientist .
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The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible (Jason Fried) Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. The thing(s) people do all the time, the always stuff, should be obvious. The things that should be easy are the things that people do frequently, but not always. [Possible] these are things people do sometimes. Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help ..
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The abstract to this preprint, by two authors both associated with Anthropic, makes the claim “We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding … Continue reading →
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What does it really take to build electronics as a hobbyist?
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blog.zaqlabs.com
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4 months ago
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eng
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With the recent hype around Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw, people have been posting about its exploits (real or imagined) and projecting all sorts of human capabilities into this admittedly clever piece of technological plumbing. A friend of mine shared a Hacker News commenter’s thought experiment on what would happen if we were all suddenly gone, and what this would mean to all those Moltbot 1 instances now idling around: Funny rela..
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I finally put enough of a bow-tie on bdsh that I can use it as a daily tool. WOO HOO! I have long wanted a dsh which did a few additional things, and now I have them. In honor of dsh's backronym ambiguity, I am not sure if bdsh is "better (distributed|dancer's) shell", "Brian's (distributed|dancer's) shell", or "BreakDancer's Shell". Regardless, I am super happy with this little tool :-) So, what does it do differently? First, it has ....
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Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
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I finally put enough of a bow-tie on bdsh that I can use it as a daily tool. WOO HOO! I have long wanted a dsh which did a few additional things, and now I have them. In honor of dsh's backronym ambiguity, I am not sure if bdsh is "better (distributed|dancer's) shell", "Brian's (distributed|dancer's) shell", or "BreakDancer's Shell". Regardless, I am super happy with this little tool :-) So, what does it do differently? First, it has ....
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My beloved American Library Association broke my heart this month. (This was not the first time.) The details are immaterial. I have seen it happen to everyone who cares about this association. My friends, mentors, and heroes deserve better. No matter how much you love a community or an organization, it cannot love you back. Our irrational, steadfast belief that they can is a form of pareidolia . We see patterns and conjure meaning. It i....
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still here - Still here. Two months in a row. The writing muscle is slowly coming back. January Reflection Running - Hit 100km. Goal met. The consistency was there, and it felt good to be moving again. Not fast, not pretty, but the kilometers added up. Reading - Finished two books. Goal met....
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For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have used it many times … Continue reading →
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After last year I wanted to give Sanderson another shot. This time I chose one of his most popular series rather than a newer, spin-off work. Mistborn stuck pretty closely to some common fantasy tropes. I thought Sanderson’s main characters had more depth to them in the book, which contributed to me enjoying the book slightly more than Tress . Allomancy is an interesting and certainly well-thought out magic system, but ultimately the....
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After last year I wanted to give Sanderson another shot. This time I chose one of his most popular series rather than a newer, spin-off work. Mistborn stuck pretty closely to some common fantasy tropes. I thought Sanderson’s main characters had more depth to them in the book, which contributed to me enjoying the book slightly more than Tress . Allomancy is an interesting and certainly well-thought out magic system, but ultimately the....
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hi im running retropie on a rpi2b board. component video to a pal crt is fuarrrked, i cant get it to work. anyone know what i need to do?
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How to fix osm2pgrouting error ‘relation “__waysXXXX” does not exist’ and speed up the import
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blog.rtwilson.com
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4 months ago
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eng
I don’t seem to have time or energy for long posts these days, but here’s another quick post which might save you some time and frustration. Recently, I’ve been trying to import OpenStreetMap data into a PostGIS database to use with pgRouting. I wanted to import data for the whole of England – which has […]
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Guest Post: Robots and Drones Are the Same Thing (And Pretending Otherwise Is Holding Us Back)
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blog.herlein.com
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4 months ago
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eng
Guest Post by Luca Herlein The artificial divide between robotics and drone ecosystems made sense once. Today, it’s holding back the entire industry.
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Guest Post: Robots and Drones Are the Same Thing (And Pretending Otherwise Is Holding Us Back)
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blog.herlein.com
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4 months ago
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eng
Guest Post by Luca Herlein The artificial divide between robotics and drone ecosystems made sense once. Today, it’s holding back the entire industry.
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A Scottish football manager once said, “Some people think football is more important than life. But they are wrong. It’s much more important than that.” When intelligence becomes a utility, the ability to ACT on it becomes everything. In today’s software world, Agency is more important than anything else!
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A Scottish football manager once said, “Some people think football is more important than life. But they are wrong. It’s much more important than that.” When intelligence becomes a utility, the ability to ACT on it becomes everything. In today’s software world, Agency is more important than anything else!
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A Scottish football manager once said, “Some people think football is more important than life. But they are wrong. It’s much more important than that.” When intelligence becomes a utility, the ability to ACT on it becomes everything. In today’s software world, Agency is more important than anything else!
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A Scottish football manager once said, “Some people think football is more important than life. But they are wrong. It’s much more important than that.” When intelligence becomes a utility, the ability to ACT on it becomes everything. In today’s software world, Agency is more important than anything else!
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A Scottish football manager once said, “Some people think football is more important than life. But they are wrong. It’s much more important than that.” When intelligence becomes a utility, the ability to ACT on it becomes everything. In today’s software world, Agency is more important than anything else!
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A Scottish football manager once said, “Some people think football is more important than life. But they are wrong. It’s much more important than that.” When intelligence becomes a utility, the ability to ACT on it becomes everything. In today’s software world, Agency is more important than anything else!
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ArgoCD won the GitOps war. I’ll say it. Flux is fine—it works, it’s CNCF graduated, it has its fans—but ArgoCD’s UI alone makes it worth choosing. When something’s out of sync at 2am, I don’t want to be parsing CLI output. I want to click on a resource tree and see exactly what drifted. I’ve been running ArgoCD in production across multiple clusters for a couple of years now, and this is the guide I wish I’d had when I started. We’ll go f..
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Reading List Table of Contents 1. January 2026 2. November 2025 3. October 2025 4. August 2025 5. May 2025 6. April 2025 7. January 2025 8. December 2024 9. November 2024 10. October 2024 11. September 2024 12. August 2024 13. June 2024 14. May 2024 15. April 2024 16. March 2024 17. Feburary 2024 18. January 2024 19. December 2023 20. November 2023 21. October 2023 22. September 2023 23. Aug....
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The Marginalia Search default ranking algorithm recently saw a fairly radical improvement, due to a new domain trust system that drastically reduces the number of content farm results, as long as there are human results it usually finds them across all the usual test queries. Recently fixing a few bugs that made the search engine work more correctly had the unexpected and undesired side-effect of also making it surface more search engine ..
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Yeah you’re not convincing me that JSON-RPC is a real protocol < Let’s deal with JSON-RPC in C! Something I don’t ever want to hear when sipping an iced coffee, during a sunny, June afternoon. Fortunately, it’s January and I haven’t seen the sun in a while! This article is sponsored by my lack of vitamin D! I have been building my own Moonraker GUI client. Inspired by Mainsail and Fluidd but not a web application. I want to get ..
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