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• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming Herlihy and Shavit on linearizability, lock-free structures, and the consensus hierarchy
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (2nd ed.) Kleppmann on the tradeoffs behind storage engines, replication, and stream processing
• A Safe Path to Open Weights Abstract: Safe open-weight models are public goods, as they put AI development and safety work in many hands and make training choices inspectable. Open models also carry real misuse risks, and…
• Agent memory as a file format \[Floppy disk insertion noise] WOW - I know the corporate VLAN configuration
• AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens Working with AI agents day to day, I’ve started noticing a trend that worries me. Teams — including experienced engineers who used to know better — have quietly stopped pushing to rewrite or…
• AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code. Are You OK With That? Coding agents keep pushing the cost of writing software close to zero. This is valuable because writing software has historically been a big part of the work needed to ship software. For a lot of…
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic Over the past eight months, our Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted operations in which threat actors tried to use Claude for malicious activity. In this report, we share case studies…
• The pattern language of software architecture Patterns of software architecture are all interrelated (no pattern is an island). You can rarely make a product in a pure architectural style, and the chances for it to survive undistorted over years…
• Are Open Models Catching Up? The past two months have been a breakout period for open source AI. Yes, there was the “DeepSeek moment” back in January 2025, but no one actually used R1 to do any economically valuable work. In…
• The ATOM Project - American Truly Open Models Reinvigorating AI research in the U.S. by building leading, open models at home
• The ATOM Report:Measuring the Open Language Model Ecosystem We present a comprehensive adoption snapshot of the leading open language models and who is building them, focusing on the ∼\\sim1.5K mainline open models from the likes of Alibaba’s Qwen, DeepSeek…
• Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience. The gatekeepers — the many media outlets we pitched it to — passed on publishing…