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    Aug 3, 2023
    In 2013, a group of makers got together to find new ways to work together. A lot has happened since. We recently celebrated our 10th birthday :) Over the years, we've had the privilege of working with some exceptional organizations and doing work we're proud of. 1/2
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    Oct 15, 2025
    @tod thanks for sharing our blogs on hn :) hope you enjoy reading!
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    Sep 29, 2025
    What popular SWE/coding benchmarks are measuring. 1) SWE Bench Verified Patches that close GitHub issues. Mostly for Python library repositories. In that mostly Django. Pass criteria: get the unit tests to pass.
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    Sep 18, 2025
    Making software with AI is about managing units of work, writes @AtharvaRaykar. These units of work need to be small and provide human-legible business value.
     The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work.

When I was new to this emerging craft of AI-assisted coding, I was getting lousy results, despite the models being rather intelligent. Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context.
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    Sep 9, 2025
    Srihari proposes an informal, signal based operational review of systems. It goes beyond metrics on the dashboard, and enables leaders to listen to how their trusted engineers _feel_. Read his full blog post here: blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/0…
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    Srihari Sriraman
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    Sep 9, 2025
    Over the last few years I've learned to value broader signals over metrics. Some informal questions provoke honest discussions around such signals that are a lot more valuable than a talking about metrics on a dashboard. I wrote these questions down in a blog post:
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