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The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering
Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois explain context engineering antipatterns in coding agents, demonstrating how skills, right-tool retrieval, and external memory optimize developer workflows.
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Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview
Nick DiStefano discusses how Uber Eats migrated core mobile surfaces to a hybrid WebView stack, sharing insights on maintaining native UI quality and shipping features faster.
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Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI
David Chisnall explains how CHERI architecture unifies hardware capabilities and pointer metadata to deliver memory safety and fine-grained, efficient software compartmentalization.
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Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates
Martin Spier shares how agentic coding accelerates release velocity at OpenAI and explains how always-on AI agents redefine performance engineering to keep ChatGPT fast at massive scale.
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Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
Aleksandar Mitic and Jo Kelly-Fenton discuss how Spotify uses "Honk," a background AI coding agent, to automate codebase migrations at scale and tackle the ongoing maintenance problem.
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Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers
Laurence Tratt explains yk, a meta-tracing JIT compiler technology that automatically speeds up C-based interpreters like Lua and Python with minimal, non-invasive code changes.
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The Five Stages of AI Maturity in Engineering Organizations - Where and Why Teams Get Stuck
Quotient CEO Lizzie Matusov explores why surging enterprise AI spend isn't driving faster software delivery, introducing a 5-stage AI maturity framework to unblock bottlenecks across the SDLC.
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The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity
Holly Cummins explains how tech history rhymes, tracing tradeoffs from the Great Stink to cloud, AI hype cycles, and ZIRP, urging leaders to recycle old engineering disciplines for sustainability.
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The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough
Ben Greene shares lessons from startups for software engineers navigating AI coding agents. He explains why starting simple, keeping comprehension, and prioritizing customer impact matter.
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The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect
Ruth Linehan discusses Momento’s 3-year migration from Kotlin to Rust, explaining how the borrow checker speeds up delivery velocity and why Rust lowers overall engineering costs in production.
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Practical Robustness: Going beyond Memory Safety in Rust
Andy Brinkmeyer explains how to leverage Rust beyond memory safety. Discover how senior devs and architects can embed runtime protocols into types to eliminate bugs at compile time.
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Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development
Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan explains how to secure autonomous AI agents, sharing enterprise patterns like provenance gates and sandboxed runtimes to defend the ReAct loop against rogue execution.