Posts related to performance
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Google led I/O 2026 with a cheap, fast Gemini Flash instead of a frontier behemoth, and everyone read it as conceding the top of the market. Wrong read. Cheap isn't a model strategy, it's a silicon strategy. Google owns every layer from the TPU to the search box, which is why it can give intelligence away while its rivals rent the compute to compete with it, some of them for $40 billion.
Read more →OpenAI just shipped their first model on non-Nvidia hardware. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark runs on Cerebras wafer-scale silicon at 1,000 tokens per second. The AI coding war is now a chip war.
Read more →Top 3 intelligence. Top 5 price. Top speed. Flash beats Pro on SWE-bench and changes the economics of agentic workflows.
Read more →Anthropic's first acquisition ever. A $183B AI company just bet their fastest-growing product on a JavaScript runtime. Claude Code hit $1B in 6 months - built on Bun.
Read more →Google's Gemini 3 just broke every benchmark that matters. What that means for the 'AI has hit a wall' narrative, and where it actually helps.
Read more →The latest C# release continues its quiet war on ceremony with field-backed properties, extension members, and smarter spans. Here's what matters and what doesn't.
Read more →I fought to move teams from npm to pnpm. I was all in. Then a friend said 'lol use bun' and I converted every project within days. Here's why I'll never go back.
Read more →Converting text to images for 20x token compression. Interesting research or production-ready breakthrough? A critical look at the trade-offs.
Read more →Real-time AI generation vs curated libraries: lessons from building the same product twice with radically different architectures.
Read more →Real lessons from shipping multiplayer games with Firebase: what works for small groups, where it breaks down, and the scalability limits you need to know upfront.
Read more →Building realistic voxel explosion effects in Unity that break objects into their constituent cubes with physics and particle systems.
Read more →Building cross-platform image resizing middleware for ASP.NET Core using SkiaSharp before mature libraries existed.
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