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Graphite is joining Cursor (cursor.com)

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Samsung Follows Apple's AI Strategy with Perplexity-Powered Bixby (macrumors.com)

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TSMC announces $100B investment in US chipmaking (theverge.com)

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Takehomes and Algos Are Both Evil – and Other Lessons from 1000 SWE Interviews (gmfoster.com)

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What Happened to Lightweight Desktop Apps? History of Electron's Rise (gmfoster.com)

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Are you having any fun? (gmfoster.com)

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The Most Important Part of Engineering Management: Context (gmfoster.com)

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The Bryan Johnson Approach to Eng Productivity (gmfoster.com)

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How to Be a 10x Engineer: Execute in an Extreme Straight-Line (gmfoster.com)

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Will AI Transform or Threaten the Per-Seat SaaS Model? (gmfoster.com)

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Onboarding roulette: deleting our employee accounts daily (graphite.dev)

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Should SaaS startups offer on-prem? (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Atlassian, from the Perspective of a Younger Developer (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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ChatGPT's "Work With Apps": Slowly deprecating code editors (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Biographical vs. Aspirational Startup Values (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Stacking and Agentic PRs Go Hand in Hand (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Amazon Q and Gitlab Duo: Still Missing a Killer Differentiator (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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iOS 18.2 is rolling out now, adding ChatGPT integration and more Apple Intellige (theverge.com)

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Pricing Intelligence: Is ChatGPT Pro too expensive for developers? (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Git is bad. Here's how I'd make it better (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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AI in dev tools, late 2024: where we are and where we might be headed (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Designing a Startup Infra Team (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Becoming a lead at a startup – from the audience to the stage (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Friends and Family Email Lists (gregmfoster.substack.com)

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Graphite speeds up code review by 40x with Claude (anthropic.com)

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AI code generation will remain fragmented (graphite.dev)

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PlanetScale Updated to Plaintext Website (planetscale.com)

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Google Does Code Review (graphite.dev)

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Do you ever outgrow GitHub? (graphite.dev)

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From the 80s to 2024 – how CI tests were invented and optimized (graphite.dev)

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NYC just had an earthquake

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How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange (graphite.dev)

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Introducing Stackoverflow.com (2008) (codinghorror.com)

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How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform (graphite.dev)

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Why Facebook doesn't use Git (graphite.dev)

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The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth (asmartbear.com)

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The "Mom Test": asking good questions when everyone is lying to you (graphite.dev)

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Call site attribution:pinpoint rogue SQL queries throttling database performance (graphite.dev)

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Every engineer should understand Git reflog (graphite.dev)

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Ask HN: What do you dislike about code reviews?

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Key lessons in Node.js server optimization (graphite.dev)

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Gerrit review score cards: a unique approach to code quality (graphite.dev)

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Git was built in 5 days (graphite.dev)

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5 problems stacked diffs address (graphite.dev)

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How long should your CI take? (graphite.dev)

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The Big O of Code Reviews (egorand.dev)

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My experiments with AI code review (graphite.dev)

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What does it mean to launch? (graphite.dev)

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The slowest GitHub PRs in recorded history (graphite.dev)

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Nit comments are inconsistent and inefficient (graphite.dev)

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Building Graphite with Graphite (how I've come to love stacking) (graphite.dev)

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Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost (graphite.dev)

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There are no true monorepo companies (graphite.dev)