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February 09, 2026Posts from today
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Magic Words
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the LLM “thinks” it needs more context about that topic, it can import the contents of those files into the context to help generate a response. Generally speaking, skills do an okay job at providing on-demand context. Assuming the AI model is always 12-to-18 months behind in i... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED?
It's your one chance to make amends. The post What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? appeared first on The Old New Thing.... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026Automatic Service Discovery in C# with Needlr: How It Works
Learn how Needlr's automatic service discovery works in C# with convention-based registration, type scanning, and the DoNotAutoRegister attribute for .NET applications.... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026Exo Ape: Crafting Unforgettable Digital Journeys
A studio story shaped by narrative, motion, and the belief that digital journeys should feel human.... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026CodeSOD: Invalid Passport
Gretchen wanted to, in development, disable password authentication. Just for a minute, while she was testing things. That's when she found this approach to handling authentication. passport.authenticate('local', { session: true }, async (err, user) => { if (err) { res.send({ success: false, message: 'Error authenticating user.' }) } else if (!user) { User.query() .where({ username: req.body.username }) .first() .then(targetUser => { if (targetUser) { ... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026Is the craft dead?
The Japanese are really good at woodworking. And I love watching the Yankee workshop, my dad makes Native American bows and arrows completely from scratch in his workshop with trees that he finds. This is all different from the stuff you get at IKEA, but I’ve been coding now for money for 35 years and systems are still complicated, computers still do dumb stuff, humans still do dumb stuff, this is just like the move from assembler to C, like the introduction of syntax highlighting, the introduct... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026Citadel
He used to understand guilt the way a farmer understands crops. Now he has to use drugs to sleep and drugs to wake up and he only stays sober because there is an impossible restitution to dedicate himself to. He deserves many things. None of them resembles peace.With the death-rooted profits he could afford to have his guilt extirpated from his mind like a skin blemish or a tiresome ex, but together with a conscience the kidnappers had forced into him a phobia against neuroengineering, therapy, ... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026A Language For Agents
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing. Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement existing languages in place but now I’m starting to think the opposite is true. Here I want to outline my thinking on why we are going to see more new programming languages and why there is quite a bit of space for interesting innovation. And just in case someone wants to sta... Take me to this post.
February 09, 2026Introducing tapes: transparent AI agent telemetry
Last week, we released tapes, a new open source agentic telemetry tool for understanding the "what", "why", and "how" of your AI agents. One of the biggest problems I've noticed with the current age of AI agent tools is that they're all "opaque" and once you're done with a session, typically all of that context is lost: all of the learned lessons, all of the decisions, all of the errors, and all of the successes. This is a wealth of information that you (the operator) and the agent (the executor... Take me to this post.
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