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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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In an effort to probe the limits of autonomous software development Anthropic used sixteen Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a Rust-based C compiler from scratch. Working in parallel on a shared repository, the agents coordinated their changes and ultimately produced a compiler capable of building the Linux 6.9 kernel across x86, ARM, and RISC-V, as well as many other open-source projects.
By Sergio De Simone
A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in critical infrastructure operations and reduces incident response time by integrating intelligent reasoning directly into the terminal-based operational tools.
By Renato Losio
Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an optional indexing model, allowing architects to prioritize write speed and lower costs. While it brings parity with MongoDB-style aggregations, the preview currently lacks real-time and emulator support.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Introducing Nuxt Studio: the ultimate open-source content management solution for Nuxt websites, offering a powerful self-hosted module for complete control over your content. With an intuitive visual editor, real-time previews, and seamless Git integration, elevate your development workflow while bridging the gap for content creators. Unleash your team's potential today!
By Daniel Curtis
Sahil Dua discusses the critical role of embedding models in powering search and RAG applications at scale. He explains the transformer-based architecture, contrastive learning techniques, and the process of distilling large language models into production-ready student models. He shares insights on optimizing query latency, handling document indexing, and evaluating retrieval quality.
By Sahil Dua
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