"In Fortran, God is real unless declared INTEGER." A late-night programmer joke led me into Fortran's implicit typing, the legendary DO10I bug, and a hands-on Debian lab where Python silently returned 0 instead of 60, and flake8 caught my typo twice.
An AI agent solved 49 of 50 unpublished research physics problems for under $3 each. Are these "virtual polymaths"? Half right. Here's what the new TheoPhysEval paper shows they still can't do, and why it matters for security.
Before adding a database table to a working feature, it's worth asking what actually changes — not just in the code, but in what you're now responsible for. A planning walkthrough for turning a stateless AI-triage feature into a persistent, queryable one, and the retention and privacy questions that come before the first line of SQL.
Key concept learned:Jev is a hosted API model, not something installed locally. What you install (typesafe-sdk, pydantic-ai-slim[typesafe]) is just a client library — code that formats requests and talks to Typesafe’s servers. The actual model runs entirely on their infrastructure.…
The setup Deref coercion is one of the most common “gotcha” questions in Rust interviews, because it’s genuinely easy to mistake for inheritance if you’re coming from Java or C++. This post is my working notes from testing it hands-on.…