Torvalds' Best Review Trick Just Stopped Working
Linus Torvalds built decades of code review on one proxy: a coherent explanation proved understanding. LLMs made that proxy free, and he just replaced it with a provenance requirement.
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Try It: A Working Assessment-First Course
Eight posts ago the claim was that the AI-education industry is building the wrong product — chatbots students ignore, while the thing that actually moves exam scores is an LLM grading written…
Instrument Like a Learning Scientist
The most valuable thing the Dartmouth team built wasn't the grader. It was the fact that they could answer "did completing this lesson's quiz correlate with doing better on the exam?" — per…
The Biggest Effect Size Was the Boring Feature
The feature with the largest effect size in the Dartmouth pilot is the one no startup would put on a landing page. Not the AI grader. Not the chatbot. Cumulative module reviews: a big quiz…
OpenTelemetry Tells You What Your Agent Did. Not Whether It Was OK.
OpenTelemetry's GenAI conventions will tell you your agent called Claude, spent 1,843 input tokens, took 900 milliseconds, and returned without an error. They will not tell you the answer cited…
Half of Kubernetes Deployments Just Became Technical Debt Overnight
The Kubernetes ecosystem just pulled its biggest rug since Docker changed their licensing. Ingress NGINX is being retired in March 2026, and it powers roughly half of all Kubernetes deployments.…
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The Agentic AI Foundation Made Rivals Agree
Something unprecedented happened in AI this week. The companies most aggressively competing to dominate the AI landscape—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and dozens of others—just…