2026-07 - W3

The Joy and Power of Understanding

Eventually, we do lose what we do not use - and passive reading is not enough to keep these skills sharp. … For some skills, areas that we rarely use and do not care about that is totally fine, but our core skills and knowledge regularly used must be kept as strong as possible - otherwise, what is that defines us as software developers and problem solvers?

What will be left for us to work on? - by Arvind Narayanan

You only need the frontier model for one single edit — Stencil

That’s… an interesting concept, and makes lots of sense, because planning distill information between each session/agent. Although, that reminds me of the new /plan mode from claude code which does not start a new session, but continue in the same session. Maybe the difference is there:

you swap to the cheap model and prune the planning instruction from context.

5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

Crazy transition…

LLM cliché highlighter

I should use that in some blog posts… But nowadays, it seems to be quite easy to detect whether it was written by AI or not.