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Developer's block

Overdoing “best practices” can kill momentum. Think endless tests, wall-to-wall docs, airtight CI, and coding rules rigid enough to snap. Sounds responsible—until it slows dev to a crawl. The piece argues for flipping that script. Start scrappy. Build fast. Save the polish for later. It’s how you d..

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Go is still not good

Go’s been catching flak for years, and the hits keep coming: stiff variable scoping, no destructor patterns, clunky error handling, and brittle build directives. Critics point out how Go’s design often blocks best practices like RAII and makes devs contort logic just to clean up resources or manage ..

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From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances

OpenAI Returns to Openness. The company droppedgpt-oss-20Bandgpt-oss-120B—its first open-weight LLMs since GPT-2. The models pack a modern stack:Mixture-of-Experts,Grouped Query Attention,Sliding Window Attention, andSwiGLU. They're also lean. Thanks toMXFP4 quantization, 20B runs on a 16GB consume..

From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
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I set up an email triage system using Home Assistant and a local LLM, here's how you can too

A DIY email triage rig usingHome Assistant, IMAP, andOllamawires up local LLM smarts with YAML-fueled automation. At the core: an8B dolphin-llamamodel running on GPU, chewing through messy HTML emails, tagging them, and firing off priority-sorted summaries via notifications. Why it matters:A signal..

I set up an email triage system using Home Assistant and a local LLM, here's how you can too
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37 Things I Learned About Information Retrieval in Two Years at a Vector Database Company

A Weaviate engineer pulls back the curtain on two years of hard-earned lessons in vector search—breaking downBM25,embedding models,ANN algorithms, andRAG pipelines. The real story? Retrieval workflows keep moving—from keyword-heavy (sparse) toward embedding-driven (dense). Across IR use cases, the ..

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Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development

Most LLMs still play autocomplete sidekick. But seasoned devs? They get better results when the model reads and rewrites actual source files. That gap—between how LLMs are designed to work and how prosactuallyuse them—messes with survey data and muddies the picture on real gains in code quality and..

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The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide

A new reference rounds up the core ML equations—Bayes’ Theorem, cross-entropy, eigen decomposition, attention—and shows how they plug into real Python code using NumPy, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn. It hits the big four: probability, linear algebra, optimization, and generative modeling. Stuff that..

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Combining GenAI & Agentic AI to build scalable, autonomous systems

Agentic AI doesn’t just crank out content—it takes the wheel. Where GenAI reacts, Agentic AI plans, perceives, and acts. Think less autocomplete, more autonomous ops. Hook them together, and you get a full-stack brain: content creation, real-time decisions, adaptive workflows, all learning as they ..

Combining GenAI & Agentic AI to build scalable, autonomous systems
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Effectively building AI agents on AWS Serverless

AWS just dropped support for buildingserverless agentic AI systems. You’ll need the Strands Agents SDK, Bedrock AgentCore (preview), plus trusty tools like Lambda and ECS. What’s new? Agentic AI flips the script. Instead of dumb prompt-in, response-out bots, you getgoal-driven loopswith memory, too..

Effectively building AI agents on AWS Serverless
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference?

DeepSeek R1 running on H100s puts input-token costs near$0.003 per million—while output tokens still punch in north of$3. That’s a 1,000x spread. So if a job leans heavy on input—think code linting or parsing big docs—those margins stay fat, even with cautious compute. System shift:This lop-sided ..

Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference?
Hey folks! We’re happy to invite you to DevOpsDays Ukraine: Disaster Recovery at scale on September 14-15th  ⚙️

Get ready for a two-day DevOps journey:

🔸 Fireside Chat with the co-founder of DevOpsDays, Patrick Debois. 

🔸 Cultural Talks by top experts Charity Majors, Iaroslav Molochko, Manuel Pais, Adriana Villela just to name a few.

Some of the topics: 

- Emergency cloud migration and cost optimization tricks during the first months of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine

- Compliance and Regulatory Standards Are Not Incompatible With Modern Development Best Practices

- Beyond Engineering: The Future of Platforms

- The Case for Self-Service Tooling

- Key strategies to overcome the challenges of operating

🔸 Ignite talks: DevOps in GameDev, Socio-Technical Engineering, FQDN Egress Control and much more.
And finally online networking on Open-Spaces with like-minded experts from around the world. 

Check out agenda & register 👉 https://www.devopsdays.com.ua 

When? September 14-15

Where? Online

Can't wait to see y'all!