Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

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The cuts are part of a wider trend among tech firms as they spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI.

Exploring GIFs, flexiGIF and LZW compression

Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild.

treedocs gives people and agents concise, version-controlled context for any codebase.

A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced an agreement with CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), The Essential Cl...

The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

We knew bigger cars were killing more pedestrians; now there's data to prove it.

I vividly remember most of my own journey into engineering management over the years. Throughout my career, I’ve also mentored several people taking the step from engineer to engineering manager. It’s a challenging and often lonely journey, and here are a…

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.

It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors…

The first large-scale study of hiring algorithms in the wild finds concerning patterns to how systems reject candidates.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Flash: All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption: media

Deutsche Bahn service has been suspended nationwide due to a radio malfunction. A Deutsche Bahn spokesperson confirmed this in the evening in response to an inquiry from the dpa news agency. For the time being, all trains are being held at stations.

This is an early draft of the proposal for permissioned data. Please do not over-index on this. Details, terminology, and behaviors are all likely to change.
For a friendly introduction to the prot...