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Originally published on Rough Edges. There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high performance. Up close it's something else. A strong engineer – relentless, demonstrably capable, the kind of person who ships when others stall – has the ear
How I Cut AI API Costs by 65% — A Freelance Dev's 2026 Guide Three months ago I opened my monthly invoice from a client project and nearly choked on my cold brew. I'd been running a moderately complex AI workflow — the kind of thing you spin up for a SaaS founder who wants document analysis piped in
A few months ago, I wrote a small Nushell script designed to take user-provided text and generate comments formatted for various programming languages. After using it for a while, a few flaws naturally emerged: Limited availability: Being written as a Nushell command restricted its use to those who
Part 3 of a series on building production AI on .NET. Part 1 was the overview; Part 2 was error analysis. Now we turn the failure taxonomy you built into something you can measure against — without quietly fooling yourself. A golden dataset is a set of representative inputs, each paired with a refer
Cutting My AI Bill by 60%: A Freelancer's Context Window Diary Look, I'll be honest with you. Six months ago I was hemorrhaging money on API calls. Not big tech money — I'm a freelance dev doing client work from my home office — but enough that I started sweating every time I checked my billing dash
BootCamp by Dr.Angela 1. Building Your Own APIs You can build your own APIs using frameworks like Node.js + Express. API Platforms RapidAPI : Marketplace for testing and using public APIs APIs can be: Monetized APIs : Data collection services, Algorithm / service-based APIs, Simplified interface for
Blackwell MLPerf Dominance, Intel Nova Lake Compute Runtime, & Weston 16 Vulkan HDR Today's Highlights NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture showcased unparalleled performance in MLPerf Training 6.0 benchmarks, solidifying its lead in AI compute. Concurrently, Intel's Compute Runtime introduced early supp
SQLite WAL Debug, pgstream v1.1.0, & Postgres Scaling Retrospective Today's Highlights This week's database highlights include a deep dive into SQLite's WAL index debugging, a new release of the pgstream data pipeline tool for PostgreSQL, and a retrospective on scaling PostgreSQL for millions of use
I needed a fast, repeatable way to compare production-grade open models before routing traffic to them. In this post, I will walk through a lightweight Python harness that sends identical prompts to four different Oxlo.ai models, times each response, and scores the outputs with a judge model so you
Databricks wants to erase the divide between the databases that run a business and the systems that analyze it. At The post Databricks wants to merge the two databases every company runs appeared first on The New Stack.
For years, automating HCP Terraform platform operations meant building and maintaining custom tooling on top of the API. Today, we're changing that with tfctl, the first dedicated CLI for HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise, now available on GitHub. The missing interface HCP Terraform and Terrafo
A new Android banking trojan named Rokarolla is targeting 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications using an extensive set of 137 commands. [...]
A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim's project hijack the victim's machine learning model upload and run code inside Google's serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported the bug through Google's bug bounty pro
Federal prosecutors allege five men planned to use explosive-laden drones and sniper teams to take out "high-value targets" at the UFC event.
Sensor Tower's State of AI 2026 report shows ChatGPT's audience share slipping below 50% for the first time, as Gemini's default-app advantage and Claude's Pentagon-fueled rally eat into OpenAI's lead.
Bitcoin Magazine VanEck: Bitcoin Miners Face $50B Funding Gap as AI Pivot Separates Winners From Losers VanEck says Bitcoin miners pursuing AI data center businesses face a roughly $50 billion funding gap, with investors increasingly rewarding companies that have already secured and energized AI inf
Binance said it believes it is compliant as a regulatory deadline in the European Union nears—and a report says it's likely to lose access.
A group of bipartisan senators pressed the Treasury Department to preserve states' ability to regulate stablecoins.
A handful of tokens continued their run while bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market stalled after the early week bounce.
Defend American Jobs reported spending $7.4 million on media to support Republican Barry Moore ahead of his May 20 Alabama primary, and an additional $4.7 million before Tuesday’s runoffs.
