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34 postsTurning the Database Inside Out: Kleppmann's Samza Talk Revisited
Revisiting Martin Kleppmann's classic talk on using Apache Samza and Kafka to rethink databases as streams of immutable facts.
I Tested 11 Claude Code PPTX Skills With AI Subagents — Results
Eleven Claude Code PPTX skills tested by AI subagents reveal which produce real editable tables versus fake shape-based ones.
Why Raft Rebuilt Notifications to Work for AI Agents, Not Just Humans
Raft's engineering team redesigned notification architecture after discovering AI agents can't selectively ignore messages the way humans do.
28.9M Parameter LLM Runs Fully On-Device on an $8 Microcontroller
An 28.9M parameter LLM runs entirely offline on an $8 ESP32-S3 chip using Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique for flash-based storage.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.com@ttsc/graph: A Compiler-Built Code Graph MCP for AI Agents
@ttsc/graph is an MCP server using the TypeScript compiler's own type-check to build a code graph, cutting AI agent token use by about 90%.
How We Self-Host DeepSeek V4 Flash on AWS Spot Instances
Inside a self-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash deployment on AWS spot GPUs: MXFP4 quantization, RTX PRO 6000 hardware, DSpark decoding, and KV cache tuning.
SAGA Framework Pinpoints Which AI Model Generated a Video
SAGA is a new framework that attributes AI-generated videos to their source model across five levels, using minimal labeled data and interpretable signatures.
Epistemic Engine verifies AI code and predicts what will break
Epistemic Engine is an open-source Python tool that verifies AI-generated code and forecasts future failures using deterministic git-history analysis.
Loom: A Git-Based Coordination Layer for Multiple AI Coding Agents
Loom adds git-based worktree isolation and intent leases so AI coding agents surface conflicts before they burn tokens, not after.
Kernel-Level Enforcement for AI Agents via eBPF-LSM and Z3
Solo-built eBPF-LSM prototype enforces AI agent guardrails at the kernel syscall boundary with Z3 SMT checks; open break-it challenge on GitHub.