Container Pooling in the Responses API Is Not a Plumbing Detail Most engineers I talk to treat cold-start latency as a footnote. Something to optimize later. A known cost of doing business with containerized infrastructure. I’ve been guilty of this too. OpenAI just made that attitude a lot harder to defend. They shipped container pooling…
AI Pulled the Trigger. Who Was Watching? There’s a version of the AI story where we debate token limits and benchmark scores and which orchestration framework feels cleanest. Then there’s the version where Palantir and Claude just processed over 1,000 military targets in 24 hours and the Pentagon didn’t pause for a review cycle. Both…
One Afternoon. One Dad. One App That Would Have Cost $40 a Month. A father asked Claude to build his daughter a custom piano learning app. Live keystroke detection from a connected piano. Sheet music display. A Guitar Hero-style game that ramps up difficulty as she improves. He did it in a single session. His…
421 Pages. Free. No Catch. This Google Engineer Just Dropped the Agentic AI Curriculum the Field Has Been Missing. There’s a certain kind of technical resource that only shows up a few times a decade. The kind that was clearly written for internal use, then someone decided the world should have it. This week, a…
The Discipline Nobody Talks About When Building AI Agents There is a specific kind of technical debt that only shows up in agent systems, and it doesn’t announce itself. It accumulates quietly, one reasonable decision at a time, until the day you’re staring at a system diagram that looks like a subway map and realizing…
TERAFAB: SpaceX and Tesla Just Bet That Compute Supply Is the War Worth Winning Most announcements from Elon Musk’s orbit land somewhere between ambitious and absurd. TERAFAB is different. On the night of March 21, 2026, Musk posted to X: “Formal announcement of the TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by SpaceX and Tesla,…
The Discipline Nobody Teaches Every engineer I know is tracking the wrong thing. Lines of code shipped. Features deployed. Model latency shaved by another 12 milliseconds. These are easy to measure, which is probably why we measure them. But the skill that actually separates good AI engineers from great ones is almost impossible to put…
Andrej Karpathy Just Described a Phase Shift. Most Engineers Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next. If you follow AI at all, you probably saw Andrej Karpathy’s appearance on the No Priors podcast this week with Sarah Guo. If you haven’t listened to it yet, you should. Not because it covers new product announcements or benchmark…
The Speed Trap: Why AI’s Real Value Has Nothing to Do With Typing Faster Most engineers I know are chasing the wrong metric right now. They’re asking how to use AI tools faster, how to generate more code per hour, how to shorten the time between prompt and output. That framing is wrong, and I…
The $500K Engineer Who Isn’t Burning Tokens Is Leaving Money on the Table There’s a quote circulating right now that stopped me mid-scroll: “If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.” Sunny Madra posted it this week and the reactions were split almost perfectly between people who got it…
