The Dark Arts of Web Automation
Ominous, right?
How I Fixed Handy's Memory Leak Without Knowing Rust
I applied The Framework to diagnose and fix a nasty memory leak in the wonderful Handy voice transcription app. This required some novel adaptations of The Framework that Software and AI Engineers alike will appreciate.
Unlocking Codex GPT-5.4's Full 1M-Token Context Window
Update (July 2026): as of Codex 0.144.4, this technique no longer works -- the model_context_window override is now ignored, and context ceilings are enforced server-side. See the full update at the end of this post.
Getting Handy to work in GNOME Wayland (Ubuntu 25.10+)
Handy (CJ Pais's Tauri 2.x speech-to-text desktop app, v0.8.3 Linux AppImage) is the chosen dictation tool. The required workflow:
Is HTML "Strictly Better" Than Markdown for Claude Code?
Thariq Shihipar of Claude Code team fame posted an article last week, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML", arguing that Claude should output HTML files by default for basically everything. PR reviews, postmortems, status reports, the lot. It's a good piece, racked up 8.3M views, and most of it I …
The Web Is Now a Two-Way Street for AI
Yohan Lasorsa, Developer Advocate at Microsoft, and Olivier Leplus, Developer Advocate at AWS, opened their joint talk with a premise most web developers already accept: AI helps you build websites. Their argument is that the reverse is now equally true -- the web is becoming AI's runtime, its data source, and …
Your Digital Exhaust Is the Most Underused Dataset You Own
Your Multi-Agent System Isn't Failing Because of the AI
Sandipan Bhaumik (LinkedIn), Data & AI Tech Lead at Databricks, opened with an anecdote that set the tone for the whole talk. A single credit-scoring agent ran for two weeks in production without issues. The team added four more agents. Within days, 20% of risk ratings were wrong -- not because the …
Your LLM Evaluator Is Probably Lying to You
Mahmoud Mabrouk (X, LinkedIn), co-founder and CEO of Agenta AI, opened his AI Engineer Europe workshop with a scenario most teams will recognize: your LLM agent is in production, your observability dashboard looks clean, but customers keep saying the thing doesn't work. The culprit, he argues, isn't the agent -- it's …
When Every Team Builds Its Own AI Agent, You Need a Registry
Sonny Merla, Mauro Luchetti, and Mattia Redaelli (Quantyca) opened with a question that any large organization experimenting with AI agents will recognize: what happens when dozens of teams across multiple continents are all building agents independently?