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The Shelf Life of an AI Study Is About Six Months

Feb 11, 2026

There's a much-referenced study that says if you're using LLMs for programming, you only think it's making you faster. Programmers claim they're more productive with AI tools, but when studied they ac...

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Making Your Agent See What It's Missing

Jan 16, 2026

Coding agents like Claude or Warp are pretty good at basic web design. Nowhere near as good as a graphic designer, but honestly much better at graphic design than an average programmer. With a bit of...

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Configuring Neovim & Nix to use Java's LSP Server

Jun 30, 2025

I've had some problems setting up an LSP server with Neovim. I think maybe some of my problems came from path clashes with nix. Now I've got it working, here's a note of the config.Hopefully it will h...

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