When recorded music went free, its value did not vanish. It moved to the seat in the room, and rushed to a handful of winners. Between 1996 and 2003, the average concert ticket for a rock or pop act nearly doubled. The economists Maria Connolly an...

Every SHA, every raw number and every recovered file below is traceable to the repo. Where something broke, the commit that fixed it is named. Where something is still open, it says so. Prologue: a Table in the Comments On September 24, a comment...

Developer Spotlight: Steve Fenton — His Developer Journey Real developers. Real journeys. Real conversations. In this Developer Spotlight, Tom Smith sits down with Steve Fenton for a relaxed conversation about his journey in software development, h...

You can learn a programming language. You can learn a framework. You can learn Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, databases, APIs, and AI tools. But there are some skills that rarely appear in a job description. They don't have a certification. ...

Civil engineering background. I am not an AI researcher, and I don't write synthetic benchmarks for a living. I build an open-source Model Context Protocol MCP server called MSCodeBase. Its primary job is to give coding agents structured context a...

I went to Milano AI Week 2026 expecting demos. I came back with observations — about the technology, the people, and a few small things I didn't expect to remember. The event is positioned as Europe's biggest AI gathering. After two days inside it, ...

A few weeks ago a Business Manager handed me a 50-page AI-generated technical spec. The document was impressive. The perspective behind it was the problem. I had talked to him a few days earlier about a new internal tool the company needed. We discu...

I went to Milano AI Week 2026 expecting demos. I came back with observations — about the technology, the people, and a few small things I didn't expect to remember. The event is positioned as Europe's biggest AI gathering. After two days inside it, ...

A few weeks ago a Business Manager handed me a 50-page AI-generated technical spec. The document was impressive. The perspective behind it was the problem. I had talked to him a few days earlier about a new internal tool the company needed. We discu...

When recorded music went free, its value did not vanish. It moved to the seat in the room, and rushed to a handful of winners. Between 1996 and 2003, the average concert ticket for a rock or pop act nearly doubled. The economists Maria Connolly an...

My initial instinct upon encountering the topic was to ask myself: have I truly considered engineering hallucinations in Large Language Models, or have I only viewed the phenomenon through basic, factual definitions? The dominant narrative across the...

My initial instinct upon encountering the topic was to ask myself: have I truly considered engineering hallucinations in Large Language Models, or have I only viewed the phenomenon through basic, factual definitions? The dominant narrative across the...