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Technical Debt is Social; it is the Price of Learning by Doing
Technical debt is not necessarily a sign of poor engineering. It can be the price of learning through software in use. As AI accelerates code production beyond our capacity to understand code and context, technical debt increasingly becomes a sociotechnical challenge.
By Ben LindersPresentation: Opening the Black Box: Critical Explainability for AI Agent Tool Selection with Kiji Inspector
Hannes Hapke shares how Dataiku’s open-source Kiji Inspector applies Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) directly to decision tokens to expose why agents pick specific tools. Moving past superficial chain-of-thought narratives, he discusses causal ablation, layer activation extraction via patched vLLM engines, and production monitoring workflows for software architects and senior engineering leaders.
By Hannes HapkeAzure Logic Apps Standard Gets a Local CLI in Preview
Microsoft has released a public preview of the logicapp extension for the Azure CLI, adding local project creation, workflow authoring, a runtime lifecycle, connector management, run inspection, and test scaffolding for Logic Apps Standard, work that previously required the VS Code extension. The product team pitches the terminal surface as determinism for AI-assisted development.
By Steef-Jan WiggersGoogle Open-Sources TPU Sync for KV Cache and Weight Transfer on TPUs
Google Cloud has open-sourced TPU Sync, a native C++ library that moves KV cache blocks and model weights between TPU HBM, host DRAM, shared storage, and the data center network.
By Daniel DominguezAuthor Q+A: finprim is a Case for One Financial Validation Library in TypeScript
finprim is an MIT-licensed TypeScript library that offers IBAN, BIC, card, sort code, VAT, routing number and loan functions through one API with no runtime dependencies. Its author built it after duplicated validators drifted apart across web and mobile. It validates and formats data only, and does not process payments. He is cautious about adding SEPA and ACH file generation.
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