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Prompt engineering for developers
16+ min ago (784+ words) When I first started writing prompts, I had the unrealistic expectation that since LLMs "know everything," they would always execute perfect outputs. With that expectation, the prompts I built early on gave the model a wide range of potential outputs....
Every Android phone is getting a free performance upgrade
1+ week, 5+ day ago (321+ words) Google has confirmed that it's working to optimise its mobile OS, potentially bringing about a performance upgrade for all Android smartphone users. Over on the official Android Developers blog, a fresh post from Software Engineer Yabin Cui has shed light…...
Apple announces dates for WWDC26, its biggest event of the year: All the details- Moneycontrol.com
48+ min ago (368+ words) Apple has confirmed that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place from June 8 to June 12, 2026. The event will be hosted online, with a limited in-person gathering scheduled at Apple Park on June 8. The conference is expected to focus…...
“We Followed Every Best Practice — and Slowed Down Our Team”
46+ min ago (129+ words) The codebase was clean. Every pull request was reviewed. Every function was tested. Every service was modular. Every deployment followed strict pipelines. On paper, the team looked like a textbook example of engineering excellence. In reality, we were shipping slower…...
AI Generated Perfect KPIs Without Reading the Data
33+ min ago (200+ words) A single tweet exposed one of the most dangerous failure modes in AI-assisted analytics. A tweet made the rounds recently. Someone shared a raw data file with an AI model to analyze. The KPIs came back looking polished structured, confident,…...
Why My AI Tutor Improved With Hindsight
30+ min ago (750+ words) Our AI tutor used to treat every submission like the first one'until Hindsight let it connect attempts, and suddenly it stopped explaining errors and started predicting them. I've been working on a coding practice platform that behaves less like a…...
Building a Memory Layer with Hindsight: From Stateless Feedback to Pattern-Aware Systems
29+ min ago (631+ words) I used to think feedback systems were stateless'until I saw Hindsight pull a previous wrong approach and adjust the next hint without being told. This project started as a fairly standard coding practice platform. A user writes code, we execute…...
I tuned Hindsight for long conversations
42+ min ago (1007+ words) Last night I wondered if an agent could learn what not to recommend in a job-matching pipeline; by morning, ours was blacklisting patterns it had only seen fail once'and getting better every run. job sense ai What I built here…...
AI Productivity Tools Adoption in Software Engineering Statistics 2026: Shocking Growth • TechLila
1+ week, 3+ day ago (194+ words) The statistics below reveal how fast adoption is growing, how developers actually use these tools, and what impact they have on software engineering workflows. About 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their development workflows as of…...
Apple to Announce 2026 Swift Student Challenge Winners on March 26
45+ min ago (176+ words) As part of its WWDC 2026 announcement, Apple said that it plans to announce this year's Swift Student Challenge Winners on Thursday, March 26. Apple's Swift Student Challenge tasks students with creating an original coding project using Swift Playgrounds or Xcode. This…...