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Stack Overflow lost 99% of its questions — and the reason is more uncomfortable than 'AI killed it'
The number that made me stop scrolling
There’s a chart that’s been making the rounds on r/programming this week, and I’ve now looked at it maybe forty times, and it still does something unpleasant to my stomach every single time.
The number at the top of the story is this: Stack …
DeepSeek V4 Pro and the harness that ships with it — open weights aren't enough anymore
The day a model launch stopped being just a model launch
Yesterday, DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro, and the most interesting part wasn’t the model. That’s a strange sentence to write, because on paper the model is genuinely impressive: a Mixture-of-Experts behemoth with 1.6 trillion total …
On comments — the information only a code comment can carry, and why AI agents need it most
Bright orange, on purpose
There’s an essay that’s been doing the rounds on r/programming this week, and it opens with the kind of personal detail that tells you the author means it. Jon Gjengset — better known in Rust circles as jonhoo, the person behind crates like haphazard, evmap, and …
Stop speaking Claudish, Claude — a plugin that translates AI verbosity into plain English
The problem everyone feels but nobody names
There’s a moment in every Claude Code session where I want to throw my laptop out the window. It’s not when Claude gets something wrong — errors are fine, errors are fixable. It’s when Claude gets something right but takes three …
Rust banned LLM-generated code — and it's the right call
The news
On August 5, 2026, five teams in the Rust project adopted a policy governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. The TL;DR: LLMs are fine for asking questions, analyzing, distilling, reviewing. But not to create.
The policy doesn’t ban LLMs …